Moderate on relocation plan wins in Nago election

Moderate on relocation plan wins in Nago election

NAGO, Japan - Yoshikazu Shimabukuro, 59, former chairman of the city assembly, wins the mayoral election in Nago, Okinawa Prefecture, on Jan. 22. Shimabukuro is more flexible than the two other candidates on opposition to a government plan to relocate a U.S. military airport to their city.

  • Product Code
  • ILEA001112931
  • Registered date
  • 2006/1/22 00:00:00
  • Credit
  • Kyodo / Kyodo News Images
  • Media source
  • 2006 Kyodo News
  • Media size
  • 1864 × 1228 pixel
  • Resolution
  • dpi
  • Deployment size
  • 505.87(KB)*
  • Special instruction

*File size when opened in Photoshop, etc.

Similar Images & Videos
    Japan top gov't spokesman in Okinawa

    Japan top gov't spokesman in Okinawa

    Japanese Chief Cabinet Secretary Yoshimasa Hayashi (L) holds talks with Okinawa Gov. Denny Tamaki at the prefectural government office in Naha on Jan. 28, 2024, on the controversial relocation of the U.S. Marine Corps Air Station Futenma to another part of the southern Japan island prefecture.
      Japan top gov't spokesman in Okinawa

      Japan top gov't spokesman in Okinawa

      Japanese Chief Cabinet Secretary Yoshimasa Hayashi (front) looks over the U.S. Marine Corps Air Station Futenma in Ginowan in Okinawa Prefecture from the city government office's roof top on Jan. 28, 2024, with Mayor Masanori Matsugawa. The Japanese central government plans to transfer the Futenma base to the Henoko district in Nago in the same southern island prefecture.
        Japan top gov't spokesman in Okinawa

        Japan top gov't spokesman in Okinawa

        Japanese Chief Cabinet Secretary Yoshimasa Hayashi (L) holds talks with Ginowan Mayor Masanori Matsugawa in the Okinawa Prefectural city on Jan. 28, 2024, on the controversial relocation of the U.S. Marine Corps Air Station Futenma from Ginowan to another part of the southern Japan island prefecture.
          U.S. base transfer work begins in Okinawa

          U.S. base transfer work begins in Okinawa

          Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida meets the press at his office in Tokyo on Jan. 10, 2024, after his government started construction work for the relocation of a key U.S. military base within Okinawa Prefecture.
            U.S. base transfer work begins in Okinawa

            U.S. base transfer work begins in Okinawa

            Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida meets the press at his office in Tokyo on Jan. 10, 2024, after his government started construction work for the relocation of a key U.S. military base within Okinawa Prefecture.
              U.S. base transfer work begins in Okinawa

              U.S. base transfer work begins in Okinawa

              Okinawa Gov. Denny Tamaki meets the press at the prefectural government office in Naha on Jan. 10, 2024, after the central government began construction work in the sea off the Henoko coastal area in Okinawa's Nago for the transfer of a key U.S. military base within the southern Japan island prefecture.
                U.S. base transfer work begins in Okinawa

                U.S. base transfer work begins in Okinawa

                Okinawa Gov. Denny Tamaki meets the press at the prefectural government office in Naha on Jan. 10, 2024, after the central government began construction work in the sea off the Henoko coastal area in Okinawa's Nago for the transfer of a key U.S. military base within the southern Japan island prefecture.
                  U.S. base transfer work begins in Okinawa

                  U.S. base transfer work begins in Okinawa

                  Okinawa Gov. Denny Tamaki meets the press at the prefectural government office in Naha on Jan. 10, 2024, after the central government began construction work in the sea off the Henoko coastal area in Okinawa's Nago for the transfer of a key U.S. military base within the southern Japan island prefecture.

                    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)
                      CORRECTED: Site for U.S. base relocation in Okinawa

                      CORRECTED: Site for U.S. base relocation in Okinawa

                      Photo taken from a drone on Jan. 9, 2024, shows Oura Bay off the Henoko coastal area in Nago, Okinawa Prefecture, the site for the relocation of a key U.S. military base from another part of the southern Japanese island prefecture.