Gov't not to OK transfer of Marines from Okinawa to Iwakuni

TOKYO, Japan - Yamaguchi Gov. Sekinari Nii (L front) gives a refusal document to Foreign Minister Koichiro Gemba at the Foreign Ministry in Tokyo On Feb. 13, 2012. Gemba said that the government will not give the go-ahead for the United States to redeploy some of the U.S. Marines on the Japanese island of Okinawa to a base in Iwakuni, Yamaguchi Prefecture, in association with Washington's ongoing review of its defense strategy. Iwakuni Mayor Yoshihiko Fukuda (2nd from L front) attended the talks. (Kyodo)

Sample
PDF Preview

Product Code
ILEA000340571

Registered date
2012/2/13 00:00:00

Credit
Kyodo / Kyodo News Images

Media source

Media size
3390 × 1874 pixel

Resolution
240 dpi

Deployment size
728.22(KB)*

Special instruction

*File size when opened in Photoshop, etc.

Similar Images & Videos

U.S. base transfer work begins in Okinawa

NAGO, Japan Kyodo - Video taken from a drone on Jan. 10, 2024, shows work to reinforce soft ground being carried out by the central Japanese government in the sea off the Henoko coastal area in Nago, Okinawa Prefecture, prior to the resumption of landfill work for the relocation of a key U.S. military base within the southern Japan island prefecture. (Kyodo)

Protest against U.S. base relocation in Okinawa

People protest in front of the U.S. Marines' Camp Schwab in Nago, Okinawa Prefecture, on Dec. 14, 2023, against the planned relocation of U.S. Marine Corps Air Station Futenma to the Henoko coastal district, also in Nago, from another part of the southern Japanese island prefecture, exactly five years after offshore landfill work for the transfer began.

Okinawa referendum on U.S. base transfer

Drone photo taken Feb. 13, 2019, shows landfill work being undertaken by the Japanese government in the Henoko coastal area of Nago in Okinawa Prefecture for the planned relocation of U.S. Marine Corps Air Station Futenma, currently located in Ginowan in the southern island prefecture. Official campaigning began the following day for a prefectural referendum on the controversial plan to be held on Feb. 24. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

Sit-in protest against U.S. base transfer work

NAGO, Japan, April 23 Kyodo - Protestors stage a sit-in at the gate of the U.S. Marine Corps' Camp Schwab in the Henoko district of Nago, Okinawa Prefecture, on April 23, 2018, to block the passage of construction vehicles mobilized by the Japanese government for the relocation of the Marines' Air Station Futenma to the district.==Kyodo

Okinawa gov. to visit U.S. to air opposition to military base transfer

NAHA, Japan, May 11 Kyodo - Okinawa Gov. Takeshi Onaga (R) meets the press at the Okinawa prefectural government offices on May 11, 2015. Onaga will visit Washington and Hawaii from late May to convey local opposition to the relocation of a U.S. military base in the southern island prefecture, prefectural government officials said the same day.

Okinawa people reiterate opposition to base transfer

NAHA, Japan - Okinawa people rally to show their opposition to the planned transfer of the U.S. Marine Corps Futenma Air Station to an offshore area in the Henoko district, both in Japan's southernmost island prefecture, on Dec. 4, 2014, in front of the prefectural office building in Naha. Former Naha Mayor Takeshi Onaga won the gubernatorial race in November, delivering a de facto "No" vote on the controversial relocation plan. (Kyodo)

Abductee's mother urges review of gov't stance at N. Korea talks

TOKYO, Japan - Sakie Yokota (2nd from R), the mother of Megumi Yokota who remains missing after being abducted by North Korean agents in 1977 at age 13, speaks in Tokyo on Oct. 16, 2014, at a meeting with a league of parliamentarians pressing for the abductees' safe return. Also pictured are Eriko Yamatani (R), state minister in charge of the abduction issue, and Teruaki Masumoto (2nd from L), secretary general of the Japanese Association of the Families of Victims Kidnapped by North Korea.

Gov't begins seabed survey for U.S. Futenma base transfer

NAGO, Japan - People lodge a protest on Aug. 17, 2014, in front of the gate of the U.S. Marines' Camp Schwab in Nago, Okinawa, as the Japanese government started a seabed survey for landfill work to relocate the U.S. Futenma airbase there.

Futenma transfer site

NAGO, Japan - Japan Coast Guard officials on boats face off against protesters in canoes (front) off the Henoko district of Nago in the southernmost prefecture of Okinawa on Aug. 15, 2014. The canoeists were protesting against the government's work that began the previous day to install buoys to cordon off a stretch of shoreline, set to become the site of a replacement facility for a U.S. Marine base in the prefecture. (Kyodo)

Gov't panel meets to mull Ainu ethnic policy promotion

TOKYO, Japan - Chief Cabinet Secretary Yoshihide Suga (2nd from front R) talks with Ainu Association of Hokkaido head Tadashi Kato (extreme L) at a meeting of the government's Council for Ainu Policy Promotion at the Prime Minister's Office in Tokyo on June 2, 2014. Ainu are the indigenous people of northern Japan.