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CORRECTED: 2 U.S. F-16 fighters make emergency landing on Okinawa island

Photo taken on April 8, 2023, at Shimojishima airport on Japan's Shimoji Island in Miyakojima, Okinawa Prefecture, shows two U.S. military F-16 fighter jets that made emergency landings earlier in the day. One of the planes developed an engine problem over waters about 60 kilometers south of Okinawa's Miyako Island, according to Japan's Defense Ministry.

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Okinawan folk duo performs in New York

NEW YORK, United States - With Yukito Ara (R) on sanshin (Okinawa shamisen) and Isamu Shimoji on guitar, Sakishima Meeting, a folk duo from Okinawa Prefecture, southern Japan, performs during a concert at the Japan Society in New York on Dec. 12, 2014.

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Okinawan folk duo performs in New York

NEW YORK, United States - Isamu Shimoji and Yukito Ara of Sakishima Meeting, a folk duo from Okinawa Prefecture, southern Japan, play the guitar and "Sanshin" (Okinawa shamisen) during a concert at the Japan Society in New York on Dec. 12, 2014.

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Okinawa governor race begins

NAHA, Japan - Mikio Shimoji, 53, former state minister in charge of the privatization of postal services, who is running for governor of Okinawa, makes a speech in Naha, the capital city of Japan's southernmost prefecture on Oct. 30, 2014, the first day of official campaigning for a closely watched election on Nov. 16, in which the controversial transfer of a key U.S. military base will take center stage.

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Candidates for Okinawa gubernatorial race hold debate

NAHA, Japan - Candidates for the Okinawa gubernatorial election pose after an open debate in Naha, Japan, on Oct. 17, 2014. From L: Former Naha Mayor Takeshi Onaga, Mikio Shimoji, former minister in charge of privatization of postal services, Shokichi Kina, a former House of Councillors member, and incumbent Okinawa Gov. Hirokazu Nakaima.

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Miyako island candidate site for JGSDF troop deployment

NAHA, Japan - Senior Defense Vice Minister Ryota Takeda (R) shakes hands with Mayor Toshihiko Shimoji of Miyako, Okinawa Prefecture, southwestern Japan, at the latter's office on June 12, 2014, after talks on the possible deployment of Japanese Ground Self-Defense Force troops in the Okinawa archipelago to strengthen regional security. Takeda cited Miyako island as one of the candidate sites to host JGSDF troops.

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Okinawa musicians perform at New York concert

NEW YORK, United States - Japanese musicians (front row from L to R) Isamu Shimoji, Yukito Ara and Shinobu Matsuda from Okinawa, southern Japan, perform an Okinawan folk song during a concert in New York on Feb. 22, 2014.

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Group of nonpartisan lawmakers visits Yasukuni Shrine

TOKYO, Japan - Postal privatization minister Mikio Shimoji (C back) is pictured at Yasukuni Shrine in Tokyo on Oct. 18, 2012. Lawmakers of a nonpartisan group, including Shimoji and another Cabinet minister, visited the Shinto shrine dedicated to the war-dead on the occasion of its fall festival.

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Japan Cabinet reshuffle

TOKYO, Japan - Mikio Shimoji, Japan's new postal privatization minister, enters Prime Minister Yoshihiko Noda's office in Tokyo on Oct. 1, 2012, as Noda reshuffled his Cabinet.

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Cabinet reshuffle

TOKYO, Japan - Japanese Prime Minister Yoshihiko Noda (2nd from R) and other ruling coalition leaders meet in Tokyo on June 4, 2012, to discuss a Cabinet reshuffle to take place later in the day. Others in photo are Azuma Koshiishi (R), secretary general of the Democratic Party of Japan led by Noda, Shozaburo Jimi (2nd from L), head of the coalition partner People's New Party, and Mikio Shimoji (L), PNP secretary general.

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PNP sacks party head, policy chief

TOKYO, Japan - Mikio Shimoji (L), secretary general of the People's New Party, and Financial Services Minister Shozaburo Jimi (C), the sole Cabinet minister from the PNP, hold a press conference at the party's headquarters in Tokyo on the evening of April 5, 2012, after the party's decision to dismiss its chief Shizuka Kamei and policy chief Akiko Kamei. The decision comes after the two asserted the PNP should leave the ruling coalition due to their opposition to Prime Minister Yoshihiko Noda's key policy goal of a sales tax hike.

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Coalition partner chief Kamei against sales tax hike

TOKYO, Japan - Shizuka Kamei, head of the People's New Party, junior coalition partner of the ruling Democratic Party of Japan, speaks at a PNP lawmakers' meeting at the party's headquarters in Tokyo on March 28, 2012, expressing opposition to a hike in the sales tax rate. PNP Secretary General Mikio Shimoji is seen at the back.

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Man on hunger strike against base relocation within Okinawa

TOKYO, Japan - Atsushi Shimoji, a member of an anti-base movement who hails from Okinawa Prefecture and works in Tokyo, continues a 72-hour hunger strike near parliament house in Tokyo on April 20, 2010, to oppose the relocation within Okinawa Prefecture of the U.S. Marines Corps Futemma Air Station. Shimoji began his hunger strike at noon on April 19.

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DPJ partners oppose reclamation option

TOKYO, Japan - Mikio Shimoji (L), People's New Party Diet affairs chief, Kantoku Teruya (C), head of the Social Democratic Party's Diet affairs, and Tomoko Abe(R), the policy chief of the SDP, comes out of a meeting with Cabinet Secretary Hirofumi Hirano on March 31, 2010, at the prime minister's office in Tokyo. The three representing the junior partners of the ruling Democratic Party of Japan opposed a prospective proposal to relocate the U.S. Marine Corps' Futemma Air Station to an area to be reclaimed from the sea off a U.S. Navy facility in Uruma, Okinawa Prefecture.

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DPJ partners oppose reclamation option

TOKYO, Japan - People's New Party Diet affairs chief Mikio Shimoji speaks to reporters at the prime minister's office on March 31, 2010, after meeting with Cabinet Secretary Hirofumi Hirano. Shimoji said he opposed a prospective proposal to relocate the U.S. Marine Corps' Futemma Air Station to an area to be reclaimed from the sea off a U.S. Navy facility in Uruma, Okinawa Prefecture.

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Okinawa gubernatorial race

Former House of Representatives member Mikio Shimoji gives a speech online on Aug. 25, 2022, as campaigning began the same day for the Sept. 11 gubernatorial election in Okinawa Prefecture, southern Japan.

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Okinawa gubernatorial race

Former House of Representatives member Mikio Shimoji gives a speech online on Aug. 25, 2022, as campaigning began the same day for the Sept. 11 gubernatorial election in Okinawa Prefecture, southern Japan.

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79-yr-old fisherman rescued after drifting at sea for 3 days

MIYAKO ISLAND, Japan - Yuzo Shimoji, 79, a fisherman from Okinawa Prefecture, was rescued May 8 in waters off Miyako Island in the prefecture after drifting in his boat for three days, the Japan Coast Guard said. Shimoji lost his way due to haze and his boat later ran out of fuel. Photo provided by the coast guard. (Kyodo)

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Gov't requests Miyakojima to accept GSDF troops

State Minister of Defense Akira Sato (2nd from L) and Miyakojima Mayor Toshihiko Shimoji (far R) hold talks in Miyakojima, Okinawa Prefecture, on May 11, 2015. Sato conveyed a plan to deploy Ground Self-Defense Force troops to Miyako Island to the mayor and formally asked the island city to accept the troops. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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PNP sacks party head, policy chief

TOKYO, Japan - Mikio Shimoji (L), secretary general of the People's New Party, and Financial Services Minister Shozaburo Jimi (C), the sole Cabinet minister from the PNP, hold a press conference at the party's headquarters in Tokyo on the evening of April 5, 2012, after the party's decision to dismiss its chief Shizuka Kamei and policy chief Akiko Kamei. The decision comes after the two asserted the PNP should leave the ruling coalition due to their opposition to Prime Minister Yoshihiko Noda's key policy goal of a sales tax hike. (Kyodo)

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Man on hunger strike against base relocation within Okinawa

TOKYO, Japan - Atsushi Shimoji, a member of an anti-base movement who hails from Okinawa Prefecture and works in Tokyo, continues a 72-hour hunger strike near parliament house in Tokyo on April 20, 2010, to oppose the relocation within Okinawa Prefecture of the U.S. Marines Corps Futemma Air Station. Shimoji began his hunger strike at noon on April 19. (Kyodo)

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DPJ partners oppose reclamation option

TOKYO, Japan - Mikio Shimoji (L), People's New Party Diet affairs chief, Kantoku Teruya (C), head of the Social Democratic Party's Diet affairs, and Tomoko Abe(R), the policy chief of the SDP, comes out of a meeting with Cabinet Secretary Hirofumi Hirano on March 31, 2010, at the prime minister's office in Tokyo. The three representing the junior partners of the ruling Democratic Party of Japan opposed a prospective proposal to relocate the U.S. Marine Corps' Futemma Air Station to an area to be reclaimed from the sea off a U.S. Navy facility in Uruma, Okinawa Prefecture. (Kyodo)

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DPJ partners oppose reclamation option

TOKYO, Japan - People's New Party Diet affairs chief Mikio Shimoji speaks to reporters at the prime minister's office on March 31, 2010, after meeting with Cabinet Secretary Hirofumi Hirano. Shimoji said he opposed a prospective proposal to relocate the U.S. Marine Corps' Futemma Air Station to an area to be reclaimed from the sea off a U.S. Navy facility in Uruma, Okinawa Prefecture. (Kyodo)

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Coalition partner chief Kamei against sales tax hike

TOKYO, Japan - Shizuka Kamei, head of the People's New Party, junior coalition partner of the ruling Democratic Party of Japan, speaks at a PNP lawmakers' meeting at the party's headquarters in Tokyo on March 28, 2012, expressing opposition to a hike in the sales tax rate. PNP Secretary General Mikio Shimoji is seen at the back. (Kyodo)

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Okinawan folk duo performs in New York

NEW YORK, United States - Isamu Shimoji and Yukito Ara of Sakishima Meeting, a folk duo from Okinawa Prefecture, southern Japan, play the guitar and "Sanshin" (Okinawa shamisen) during a concert at the Japan Society in New York on Dec. 12, 2014. (Kyodo)

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Candidates for Okinawa gubernatorial race hold debate

NAHA, Japan - Candidates for the Okinawa gubernatorial election pose after an open debate in Naha, Japan, on Oct. 17, 2014. From L: Former Naha Mayor Takeshi Onaga, Mikio Shimoji, former minister in charge of privatization of postal services, Shokichi Kina, a former House of Councillors member, and incumbent Okinawa Gov. Hirokazu Nakaima. (Kyodo)

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Japanese lawmaker Mikio Shimoji

Photo taken March 2, 2018, shows Mikio Shimoji, a House of Representatives member who has been promoting the acceptance of fourth-generation Japanese descendants into Japan. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo