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Typhoon approaching Okinawa

GUSHIKAWA, Japan - Rough waves hit the coast in Gushikawa, Okinawa Prefecture, on June 19 as the powerful typhoon Dianmu, the season's sixth, approaching the Okinawan islands from the south.

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Actor Morishige leaves hospital on recovering from heart attack

GUSHIKAWA, Japan - Veteran Japanese actor Hisaya Morishige, 89, leaves an Okinawa prefecture hospital Jan. 17, where he was admitted Dec. 31 after suffering a heart attack.

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U.S. nixes handover of Marine over attempted rape charge

GUSHIKAWA, Japan - Members of local labor unions hold a protest rally outside a U.S. military base in Gushikawa, Okinawa Prefecture on Dec. 5 over an incident in which a U.S. Marine Corps officer allegedly attempted to rape a Filipino woman. The U.S. refused to hand over the officer, Maj. Michael Brown, 39, to Japanese authorities before indictment.

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Kin of heart transplant recipient thank U.S. military for help

GUSHIKAWA, Japan - The father (L) and sister of Shingo Arasaki, a 19-year-old from Okinawa Prefecture who underwent a heart transplant in the United States on Oct. 11, thank the top U.S. military commander in Okinawa on Oct. 24 for help in realizing the operation. Susumu and Asami Arasaki met Lt. Gen. Wallace Gregson (R) at Camp Courtney in Gushikawa. The U.S. military raised $63,000 for the operation and travel expenses.

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Union protests firing of model gun by U.S. Marine

NAHA, Japan - Tokusuke Kaneshi (C), chairman of the All Japan Garrison Forces Labor Union, files a protest March 22 with the Naha Regional Defense Facilities Administration over an incident in which a U.S. Marine allegedly fired pellets from a model gun March 19 at two Japanese delivering pizza, from the barracks at a U.S. military base in Gushikawa, Okinawa Prefecture.

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Summit-bound police receive lecture on Okinawa snakes

GUSHIKAWA, Japan - Police officers receive instructions Aug. 10 on poisonous snakes peculiar to Okinawa Prefecture as they have to enhance security at the 2000 summit of the Group of Eight (G-8) nations in the Japan's southernmost island prefecture. About 150 officers were lectured by experts at the Okinawa police riot squad training center in Gushikawa in the prefecture, as part of preparations for the summit scheduled for July 21-23 next year.

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U.S. changes top command in Okinawa

Lt. Gen. Earl Hailston (L) takes over Lt. Gen. Frank Libutti (R) as chief of the U.S. Marine Corps in Okinawa, in a change of command ceremony at Camp Courtney in the city of Gushikawa on June 8. Hailston assumed the post of commanding general III Marine Expeditionary Force, commander Marine Corps Bases Japan and commander Marine Forces Japan.

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Actor Morishige leaves hospital on recovering from heart attack

GUSHIKAWA, Japan - Veteran Japanese actor Hisaya Morishige, 89, leaves an Okinawa prefecture hospital Jan. 17, where he was admitted Dec. 31 after suffering a heart attack. (Kyodo)

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U.S. nixes handover of Marine over attempted rape charge

GUSHIKAWA, Japan - Members of local labor unions hold a protest rally outside a U.S. military base in Gushikawa, Okinawa Prefecture on Dec. 5 over an incident in which a U.S. Marine Corps officer allegedly attempted to rape a Filipino woman. The U.S. refused to hand over the officer, Maj. Michael Brown, 39, to Japanese authorities before indictment. (Kyodo)

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Typhoon approaching Okinawa

GUSHIKAWA, Japan - Rough waves hit the coast in Gushikawa, Okinawa Prefecture, on June 19 as the powerful typhoon Dianmu, the season's sixth, approaching the Okinawan islands from the south. (Kyodo)

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Kin of heart transplant recipient thank U.S. military for help

GUSHIKAWA, Japan - The father (L) and sister of Shingo Arasaki, a 19-year-old from Okinawa Prefecture who underwent a heart transplant in the United States on Oct. 11, thank the top U.S. military commander in Okinawa on Oct. 24 for help in realizing the operation. Susumu and Asami Arasaki met Lt. Gen. Wallace Gregson (R) at Camp Courtney in Gushikawa. The U.S. military raised $63,000 for the operation and travel expenses.

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Union protests firing of model gun by U.S. Marine

NAHA, Japan - Tokusuke Kaneshi (C), chairman of the All Japan Garrison Forces Labor Union, files a protest March 22 with the Naha Regional Defense Facilities Administration over an incident in which a U.S. Marine allegedly fired pellets from a model gun March 19 at two Japanese delivering pizza, from the barracks at a U.S. military base in Gushikawa, Okinawa Prefecture.

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Summit-bound police receive lecture on Okinawa snakes

GUSHIKAWA, Japan - Police officers receive instructions Aug. 10 on poisonous snakes peculiar to Okinawa Prefecture as they have to enhance security at the 2000 summit of the Group of Eight (G-8) nations in the Japan's southernmost island prefecture. About 150 officers were lectured by experts at the Okinawa police riot squad training center in Gushikawa in the prefecture, as part of preparations for the summit scheduled for July 21-23 next year.

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U.S. changes top command in Okinawa

Lt. Gen. Earl Hailston (L) takes over Lt. Gen. Frank Libutti (R) as chief of the U.S. Marine Corps in Okinawa, in a change of command ceremony at Camp Courtney in the city of Gushikawa on June 8. Hailston assumed the post of commanding general III Marine Expeditionary Force, commander Marine Corps Bases Japan and commander Marine Forces Japan.