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[Breaking News]No-confidence motion against Hyogo governor adopted

KOBE, Japan, Sept. 19 Kyodo - Hyogo Gov. Motohiko Saito meets the press in Kobe, western Japan, on Sept. 19, 2024, after the prefectural assembly adopted a no-confidence motion against him over abuse of power allegations. The governor must either dissolve the assembly within 10 days or resign, or risk losing his position if he does neither. (Kyodo)

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No-confidence motion against Hyogo governor adopted

KOBE, Japan, Sept. 19 Kyodo - Hyogo Gov. Motohiko Saito meets the press in Kobe, western Japan, on Sept. 19, 2024, after the prefectural assembly adopted a no-confidence motion against him over abuse of power allegations. The governor must either dissolve the assembly within 10 days or resign, or risk losing his position if he does neither. (Kyodo)

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No-confidence motion against Hyogo governor adopted

Hyogo Gov. Motohiko Saito meets the press in Kobe, western Japan, on Sept. 19, 2024, after the prefectural assembly adopted a no-confidence motion against him over abuse of power allegations. The governor must either dissolve the assembly within 10 days or resign, or risk losing his position if he does neither.

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No-confidence motion against Hyogo governor adopted

Hyogo Gov. Motohiko Saito meets the press in Kobe, western Japan, on Sept. 19, 2024, after the prefectural assembly adopted a no-confidence motion against him over abuse of power allegations. The governor must either dissolve the assembly within 10 days or resign, or risk losing his position if he does neither.

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Shizuoka Gov. Kawakatsu's resignation

SHIZUOKA, Japan Kyodo - Shizuoka Gov. Heita Kawakatsu submits his letter of resignation to Kimihiko Nakazawa, chairman of the prefectural assembly, in the central Japan city of Shizuoka on April 10, 2024, following a backlash over his belittling comments about farmers and vegetable sellers. (Kyodo)

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[Breaking News]Shizuoka Gov. Kawakatsu's resignation

SHIZUOKA, Japan, April 10 Kyodo - Shizuoka Gov. Heita Kawakatsu (L) submits his letter of resignation to Kimihiko Nakazawa, chairman of the prefectural assembly, in the central Japan city of Shizuoka on April 10, 2024, following a backlash over his belittling comments about farmers and vegetable sellers. (Kyodo)

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Shizuoka Gov. Kawakatsu's resignation

Shizuoka Gov. Heita Kawakatsu (L) submits his letter of resignation to Kimihiko Nakazawa, chairman of the prefectural assembly, in the central Japan city of Shizuoka on April 10, 2024, following a backlash over his belittling comments about farmers and vegetable sellers.

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2025 Osaka expo mascot

Myaku-Myaku, the mascot for the 2025 World Exposition in Osaka, poses for photos on April 13, 2023, in front of posters for the Osaka Expo posted on the bulletin boards of Tokyo's Todofuken Kaikan (Prefectural Assembly Hall) which supports prefectural government activities in the Japanese capital.

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Okinawa pref. assembly member Sakima to run for Ginowan mayor

GINOWAN, Japan - Atsushi Sakima, an executive member of the Okinawa prefectural chapter of the main opposition Liberal Democratic Party and a member of the Okinawa prefectural assembly, in Ginowan on Dec. 31, 2011, declares his intention to run in the Ginowan mayoral election slated for February 2012. The city in Okinawa Prefecture currently hosts the Futenma Air Station, a key U.S. Marine Corps base which is planned to be relocated from a densely populated area.

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Okinawa prefectural assembly election

OKINAWA, Japan, June 7 Kyodo - Okinawa Gov. Denny Tamaki casts his vote at a polling station in Okinawa, southern Japan, in the Okinawa prefectural assembly election on June 7, 2020, wearing a face mask amid continued worries about the novel coronavirus.

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Anti-U.S. base relocation bloc gains majority in Okinawa assembly

NAHA, Japan, June 6 Kyodo - Kyoko Higa (center L) celebrates with supporters after winning a seat in the Okinawa prefectural assembly election on June 5, 2016. Candidates opposed to a plan to relocate a key U.S. military base within Okinawa, including Higa, gained a majority in the election, giving a boost to Okinawa Gov. Takeshi Onaga's efforts to block construction of the new base in the island prefecture.

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Okinawa may block landfill work for U.S. base transfer

NAHA, Japan - New Okinawa Gov. Takeshi Onaga makes a policy speech at the prefectural assembly in Naha on Dec. 12, 2014. Onaga said the prefectural government will consider scrapping approval to start landfill work needed for a planned U.S. military base transfer within the prefecture.

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Kyoto's ex-assembly chamber restored to old state

KYOTO, Japan - The former chamber of the Kyoto prefectural assembly, a national important cultural property, is shown to the press on Nov. 13, 2014, upon restoration to its original Renaissance-style structure built 110 years ago during the Meiji Era.

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Kyoto's old assembly chamber restored to former state

KYOTO, Japan - The former chamber of the Kyoto prefectural assembly, a national important cultural property, is shown to the press on Nov. 13, 2014, upon restoration of its Renaissance-style structure, originally built in 1904.

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2 reactors to restart in Japan after getting local go-ahead

KAGOSHIMA, Japan - People in the public gallery of the prefectural assembly of Kagoshima, southwestern Japan, protest on Nov. 7, 2014, the assembly's approval of the resumption of operations of two nuclear reactors of the Sendai power plant. Kagoshima Gov. Yuichiro Ito also approved their restart later in the day.

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Resumption of Sendai plant approved

KAGOSHIMA, Japan - People in the public gallery of the prefectural assembly of Kagoshima, southwestern Japan, protest on Nov. 7, 2014, the assembly's approval of the resumption of operations of two reactors of the Sendai nuclear plant. Kagoshima Gov. Yuichiro Ito will approve their restart on the same day to complete the process of securing local approval.

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Resumption of Sendai plant approved

KAGOSHIMA, Japan - Photo shows the extraordinary session of the prefectural assembly approving the resumption of operations of two reactors of the Sendai nuclear plant in Kagoshima, southwestern Japan, on Nov. 7, 2014. Kagoshima Gov. Yuichiro Ito will approve their restart on the same day to complete the process of securing local approval.

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Resumption of Sendai reactors to be approved

FUKUOKA, Japan - Photo taken on Oct. 24, 2014, shows the Sendai nuclear power plant in Kagoshima Prefecture, southwestern Japan. A prefectural assembly panel will approve the resumption of the Nos. 1 and 2 reactors on Nov. 6.

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Kagoshima assembly head seeks industry minister's visit

TOKYO, Japan - Industry minister Yuko Obuchi (extreme R) meets with Kagoshima Prefectural Assembly Chairman Kenichi Ikehata (L) at her office in Tokyo on Oct. 15, 2014. Obuchi showed readiness to meet Ikehata's call for her visit to the southwestern Japan prefecture to explain the planned reactivation of a local nuclear power plant's two reactors.

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TEPCO head confident of shielding toxic water in trenches

FUKUSHIMA, Japan - Tokyo Electric Power Co. President Naomi Hirose tells the Fukushima Prefectural Assembly's special session on Aug. 20, 2014, that the operator of the crippled Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant is determined to complete a plan to freeze all walls shielding highly toxic water in underground trenches in the compounds of the No. 2 reactor facing the sea.

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Hyogo assembly member cries during press conference

KOBE, Japan - Ryutaro Nonomura, a member of the Hyogo prefectural assembly, cries during a press conference in Kobe, western Japan, on July 1, 2014. Nonomura admitted to spending around 3 million yen without any receipts for 195 one-day business trips in fiscal 2013 through March.

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Hyogo assembly member cries during press conference

KOBE, Japan - Ryutaro Nonomura, a member of the Hyogo prefectural assembly, cries during a press conference in Kobe, western Japan, on July 1, 2014. Nonomura admitted to spending around 3 million yen without any receipts for 195 one-day business trips in fiscal 2013 through March.

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Nago mayoral election

NAGO, Japan - Candidate Bunshin Suematsu casts his vote in the Nago mayoral election in Okinawa Prefecture on Jan. 19, 2014. In the election, in which the relocation of the U.S. Marine Corps' Futenma Air Station to Nago is the main issue, Suematsu, a former Okinawa prefectural assembly member who supports the construction of a new U.S. military facility in the Henoko district of the city, is challenging Mayor Susumu Inamine, who is opposed to the relocation plan.

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Okinawa assembly urges governor to quit

NAHA, Japan - The Okinawa prefectural assembly adopts a resolution in Naha on Jan. 10, 2014, urging Okinawa Gov. Hirokazu Nakaima to quit for reneging on his election pledge to have a U.S. Marine base moved outside the prefecture.

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Okinawa governor

NAHA, Japan - Okinawa Gov. Hirokazu Nakaima speaks during a plenary session of the prefectural assembly in Naha, Okinawa Prefecture, on Dec. 5, 2013. Nakaima reiterated his call to relocate a U.S. Marine Corps air base outside of the island prefecture.

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Sign language campaigner

TOTTORI, Japan - Daigo Ishibashi, secretary general of the Tottori association of organizations for deaf-mutes, gives an interview on Oct. 29, 2013 in Yonago, Tottori Prefecture, speaking using signs about his efforts to have a sign language promotion ordinance passed. The Tottori prefectural assembly passed Japan's first ordinance of its kind in early October 2013.

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Mayoral candidate

NAHA, Japan - Bunshin Suematsu answers reporters' questions in Nago, Okinawa Prefecture, on Oct. 24, 2013, after announcing his plan to run in the Nago mayoral election. Suematsu is a member of the Okinawa prefectural assembly elected from the city of Nago and a former vice mayor of the city.

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Mayoral candidate

NAHA, Japan - Bunshin Suematsu answers reporters' questions in Nago, Okinawa Prefecture, on Oct. 24, 2013, after announcing his plan to run in the Nago mayoral election. Suematsu is a member of the Okinawa prefectural assembly elected from the city of Nago and a former vice mayor of the city.

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Sign language interpreter

TOTTORI, Japan - A sign language interpreter conveys proceedings in the public gallery area during a Tottori prefectural assembly plenary session in the city of Tottori, western Japan, on Oct. 8, 2013. The assembly on the same day adopted an ordinance recognizing sign language and requiring the prefectural and municipal governments to promote its use.

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Sign language interpreter

TOTTORI, Japan - A sign language interpreter conveys proceedings in the public gallery area during a Tottori prefectural assembly plenary session in the city of Tottori, western Japan, on Oct. 8, 2013. The assembly on the same day adopted an ordinance recognizing sign language and requiring the prefectural and municipal governments to promote its use.

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Temp housing communities hope to stay united

FUKUSHIMA, Japan - Evacuees from Fukushima Prefecture's Tomioka gather at an assembly hall of a temporary housing complex in the prefectural city of Koriyama on Feb. 25, 2013.

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Okinawa assembly voices "burning resentment" over rape

NAHA, Japan - Photo taken on Oct. 22, 2012, shows a plenary session of the Okinawa prefectural assembly, which unanimously adopted a resolution to express "burning resentment" against Tokyo and Washington over the alleged rape on Oct. 16 of a woman by two U.S. sailors.

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Shizuoka assembly votes down nuclear referendum bills

SHIZUOKA, Japan - Photo taken on Oct. 11, 2012 shows the plenary session of the Shizuoka prefectural assembly that voted down a revised bill calling for a referendum on whether to restart Chubu Electric Power Co.'s suspended Hamaoka nuclear power station. The original bill was tabled and voted down even after a civic group collected more than 160,000 signatures from people in the prefecture.

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Osaka Gov. Matsui after plenary session

OSAKA, Japan - Osaka Gov. Ichiro Matsui speaks to reporters at the Osaka prefectural hall in Osaka on March 23, 2012. Earlier a plenary session of the Osaka prefectural assembly passed an ordinance -- the first of its kind in Japan -- requiring convicted pedophiles, after leaving prison, to report their addresses to the Osaka governor.

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Osaka Gov. Matsui after plenary session

OSAKA, Japan - Osaka Gov. Ichiro Matsui answers reporters' questions at the Osaka prefectural hall in Osaka on March 23, 2012. Earlier a plenary session of the Osaka prefectural assembly passed an ordinance -- the first of its kind in Japan -- requiring convicted pedophiles, after leaving prison, to report their addresses to the Osaka governor.

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Osaka ordinances tighten control of teachers

OSAKA, Japan - Photo taken on March 23, 2012, shows a plenary session of the Osaka prefectural assembly that passed a package of ordinances designed to bolster the Osaka governor's control over school education and toughen disciplinary action against teachers deemed incompetent by parents.

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Sakima wins Ginowan mayoral election in Okinawa Pref.

GINOWAN, Japan - Atsushi Sakima (C), a former member of the Okinawa prefectural assembly, celebrates his victory in Ginowan mayoral election at his election office in Ginowan, the city hosting the U.S. Marine Corps' Futenma Air Station in Okinawa Prefecture, on Feb. 12, 2012. Sakima, backed by Okinawa Gov. Hirokazu Nakaima as well as the main opposition Liberal Democratic Party and its ally the New Komeito party, beat former Ginowan Mayor Yoichi Iha in the closely contested election.

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Ex-Ginowan mayor Iha loses in mayoral election

GINOWAN, Japan - Former Ginowan Mayor Yoichi Iha (R) looks dejected in his election office in Ginowan, the city hosting the U.S. Marine Corps' Futenma Air Station in Okinawa Prefecture, on Feb. 12, 2012, after losing in the Ginowan mayoral election. Atsushi Sakima, a former member of the Okinawa prefectural assembly, won the election held the same day.

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Mayoral election in Ginowan, Okinawa Prefecture

GINOWAN, Japan - Atsushi Sakima casts his vote in the mayoral election in Ginowan, Okinawa Prefecture, on Feb. 12, 2012. Two independents -- Sakima, 47, a former member of the Okinawa prefectural assembly, and former Ginowan Mayor Yoichi Iha, 60 -- are vying for the position amid controversy over a plan to relocate a key U.S. base from the city.

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Mayoral election in Ginowan, Okinawa Prefecture

GINOWAN, Japan - Yoichi Iha casts his vote with his wife in the mayoral election in Ginowan, Okinawa Prefecture, on Feb. 12, 2012. Two independents -- former Ginowan Mayor Iha, 60, and Atsushi Sakima, 47, a former member of the Okinawa prefectural assembly -- are vying for the position amid controversy over a plan to relocate a key U.S. base from the city.

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Ginowan mayoral election

NAHA, Japan - Atsushi Sakima, a former member of the Okinawa prefectural assembly, campaigns on Feb. 5, 2012, for the mayoral election in Ginowan, with the relocation of a key U.S. Marine Corps base in the Okinawa Prefecture city the top issue.

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Defense Ministry's Okinawa bureau chief Manabe

KADENA, Japan - Ro Manabe (back), the Defense Ministry's Okinawa bureau chief, speaks with a member of the Okinawa prefectural assembly in the town of Kadena, Okinawa Prefecture, on Feb. 1, 2012, over his lecture linked to the upcoming Ginowan mayoral election. Ginowan hosts the U.S. Marine Corps' Futenma Air Station.

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Okinawa assembly members protest base relocation plan

NAHA, Japan - Members of the Okinawa prefectural assembly opposed to the relocation of a U.S. base within the southern Japanese prefecture block the entrance of the prefectural government office in Naha on Dec. 26, 2011, in an attempt to prevent Defense Ministry officials from submitting a key environmental impact assessment report to the office. The document marks another step in the controversial plan to relocate the U.S. Marine Corps' Futenma Air Station within Okinawa.

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Osaka Gov. Hashimoto

OSAKA, Japan - Osaka Gov. Toru Hashimoto smiles as he talks to reporters at the prefectural government building in Osaka on Oct. 22, 2011. Hashimoto submitted a letter of resignation, effective Oct. 31, to the prefectural assembly chairman the same day in order to run for Osaka mayor.

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Fukushima assembly calls for decommissioning local reactors

FUKUSHIMA, Japan - The Fukushima prefectural assembly adopts on Oct. 20, 2011, a petition calling for decommissioning all 10 reactors at the prefecture's two nuclear power plants in the aftermath of the nuclear disaster at one of them following the March earthquake and tsunami.

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Hokkaido Gov. Takahashi

SAPPORO, Japan - Hokkaido Gov. Harumi Takahashi replies to questions from reporters in Sapporo, Hokkaido Prefecture, on Aug. 17, 2011, after seeking approval from the prefectural assembly for resuming commercial operation of the No. 3 reactor at the Tomari nuclear power plant in the prefecture.

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Saga Gov. Furukawa

SAGA, Japan - Saga Gov. Yasushi Furukawa speaks during a prefectural assembly session in the city of Saga on July 1, 2011. The governor expressed his willingness to resume operation of two reactors at the Genkai nuclear power station in the southwestern Japan prefecture.

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Fukui governor resists resuming nuclear plant operations

FUKUI, Japan - Fukui Gov. Issei Nishikawa speaks during a prefectural assembly session in the city of Fukui on June 22, 2011. The governor reiterated his intention to reject the Japanese central government's request to resume operations of suspended nuclear power plants in Fukui Prefecture.

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Regional elections across Japan

OSAKA, Japan - Osaka Gov. Toru Hashimoto casts his ballot in the election on April 10, 2011, to choose members of the Osaka prefectural assembly at a polling station in Toyonaka, Osaka Prefecture. The first of two unified rounds of regional polls slated for April were held the same day to pick governors of 12 of Japan's 47 prefectures, mayors of four cities and assembly members of 41 prefectures and 15 of the country's major cities. (Pool photo)

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Japan voices regret over U.S. official's alleged comments

NAHA, Japan - The Okinawa prefectural assembly unanimously adopts a resolution in Naha on March 8, 2011, seeking a retraction and apology over alleged comments by Kevin Maher, head of the Japanese affairs office at the U.S. State Department, disparaging the people of Okinawa.