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Campaigning begins for Japan general election

Social Democratic Party leader Mizuho Fukushima makes a stump speech in Urasoe, Okinawa Prefecture in southern Japan, on Oct. 15, 2024, as campaigning for the Oct. 27 general election began the same day.

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Japan: Torrential Rain Causes Severe Flooding In Okinawa 7

Torrential rain caused severe flooding in Okinawa on Friday, June 14 prompting warnings for heavy rain, flooding, and landslides.

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Cheering returns to Japanese baseball

Yomiuri Giants fans play musical instruments during a baseball preseason game in Urasoe, Okinawa Prefecture, southern Japan, on Feb. 23, 2023. Cheering is now allowed in Nippon Professional Baseball after three years of strict COVID-19 rules, but masks are still required.

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Cheering returns to Japanese baseball

Baseball fans use noisemakers on the outfield lawn during a preseason game in Urasoe, Okinawa Prefecture, southern Japan, on Feb. 23, 2023. Cheering is now allowed in Nippon Professional Baseball after three years of strict COVID-19 rules, but masks are still required.

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Okinawa opposition to U.S. base relocation is "small part": envoy

NAHA, Japan, Nov. 14 Kyodo - Joel Ehrendreich, the consul general at the U.S. Consulate in Naha, Okinawa, gives an interview to Kyodo News on Nov. 13, 2015, in the city of Urasoe. He called local opposition to a plan to relocate a key U.S. base within the southern island prefecture "just one small part of the larger reconsolidation plan" involving those forces in the country.

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Urasoe mayor accepts transfer of U.S. military port facilities from Naha

NAHA, Japan, April 27 Kyodo - Mayor Tetsuji Matsumoto of Urasoe, Okinawa Prefecture, southwestern Japan, holds a press conference at the municipal government office on April 20, 2015, to announce his decision to accept the transfer of U.S. military port facilities from the prefectural capital of Naha. Matsumoto won a mayoral election in February 2013 on a pledge to oppose the transfer.

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Balentien to face lesser charge

URASOE, Japan - Japan's single season home run king Wladimur Balentien takes part in the spring camp of Japanese Central League club Yakult Swallows in Urasone, Okinawa Prefecture, on Feb. 12, 2014, as team president Tsuyoshi Kinugasa said Balentien, who was arrested on charges of domestic violence and false imprisonment in Miami, Florida, in January, has been charged with unlawful entry instead of the original felony false imprisonment.

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Japanese player Aoki practices batting in preseason training

URASOE, Japan - Japanese outfielder Norichika Aoki, who was traded to the Kansas City Royals in December 2013 after two seasons with the Milwaukee Brewers, practices batting in Urasoe, Okinawa Prefecture, in January 2014.

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U.S. consul general in Okinawa

NAHA, Japan - U.S. Consul General in Okinawa Alfred Magleby speaks during a press conference in Urasoe, Okinawa Prefecture, on Sept. 4, 2012.

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U.S. consulate general in Okinawa

URASOE, Japan - Raymond Greene, consulate general of the United States, speaks at a press conference in Urasoe, Okinawa Prefecture, on March 9, 2011, after a senior U.S. diplomat allegedly made disparaging comments about the people of Okinawa, sparking anger among residents and politicians in the southern island prefecture. Greene said that the reports do not reflect the views of Washington.

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Candidates make last pitches for Okinawa gubernatorial race

NAHA, Japan - Incumbent Okinawa Gov. Hirokazu Nakaima (R) shakes hands with a voter on a street in Urasoe, Okinawa Prefecture, on Nov. 27, 2010, a day ahead of the gubernatorial election. The race is considered crucial to the future of the Japan-U.S. security alliance involving a planned relocation of a U.S. military base.

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UNESCO designates Okinawa dance as intangible heritage

NAHA, Japan - Performers of Kumi Odori, a traditional dance form, celebrate on Nov. 18, 2010, in Urasoe, Okinawa Prefecture, after the U.N. Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization designated the dance as an Intangible Cultural Heritage. Kumi Odori, which literally means ''combination dance,'' is a music and dance performance originating in the island prefecture.

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Onetime houses of Americans in Okinawa undergoing changes

NAHA, Japan - A former house for American personnel in Urasoe, Okinawa Prefecture, shown in a photo taken July 16, has been remodeled into a bakery named ''ippe coppe.''

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U.S. Marines attend karate clinic in Okinawa

NAHA, Japan - U.S. Marines try to follow the moves of Yoshie Kadena (L), a world champion of Okinawa-style karate in 2008, in a clinic at a gymnasium of the U.S. Marine Corps' Camp Kinser in Urasoe, Okinawa Prefecture, on Jan. 16. The karate lesson was part of a cultural awareness seminar jointly held by the U.S. Marine Corps and the Japanese Foreign Ministry's liaison office in Okinawa.

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All U.S. military personnel in Okinawa under curfew

URASOE, Japan - The Number One Gate of Camp Kinser, the U.S. base in the Makimoto service area for U.S. Marine Corps logistics operations on Okinawa. The photo was taken after the U.S. military imposed an indefinite curfew on all its personnel in Okinawa on Feb. 20 in the wake of an alleged rape of a teenage Okinawa girl by a U.S. marine.

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Iwamura begins practice

URASOE, Japan - Japanese outfielder Akinori Iwamura (3rd from left), who has signed a three-year deal with the Tampa Bay Devil Rays, kicks off his practice at a ball park in Urasoe, Okinawa Prefecture, exactly at 11:11 a.m. on Jan. 11. (MLB)

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Iwamura begins practice

URASOE, Japan - Japanese outfielder Akinori Iwamura, who has signed a three-year deal with the Tampa Bay Devil Rays, practices batting after licking off his training at a ball park in Urasoe, Okinawa Prefecture, exactly at 11:11 a.m. on Jan. 11. (MLB)

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Nakaima says to deal flexibly with base relocation

URASOE, Japan - Hirokazu Nakaima, who won the Nov. 19 Okinawa gubernatorial election, is interviewed by media organizations at his home in Urasoe, Okinawa Prefecture, on Nov. 20. He said he will deal flexibly with the contentious issue of relocating the U.S. Marine Corps' Futemma base within the prefecture.

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Okinawa voters go to polls to pick new governor

NAHA, Japan - Voters cast their ballots in Urasoe, Okinawa Prefecture on Nov. 19 in the election to choose the successor to outgoing Okinawa Gov. Keiichi Inamine, with the relocation of a U.S. military base and local economic concerns among the major issues.

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Okinawa voters go to polls to pick new governor

NAHA, Japan - Hirokazu Nakaima, a former vice governor backed by the ruling coalition, casts his ballot together with his second daughter Chisato in Urasoe, Okinawa Prefecture, on Nov. 19 in the election to choose the successor to outgoing Okinawa Gov. Keiichi Inamine.

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Baseball players begin training for the 2006 season

URASOE, Japan - Yakult Swallows playing manager Atsuya Furuta receives flowers as his men look on during a welcome ceremony at the municipal office before the start of their official training for the 2006 season in Urasoe, Okinawa Prefecture, on Feb. 1.

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(2)Emperor, empress make 8th visit to Okinawa

URASOE, Japan - Emperor Akihito and Empress Michiko wave at well-wishers as they attend the opening of a national theater in Urasoe, Okinawa Prefecture, on Jan. 23.

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Okinawa citizens protest U.S. military presence following rape

URASOE, Japan - Residents in Urasoe, Okinawa Prefecture, tie about 100,000 handkerchiefs decorated with antimilitary messages to fences surrounding a local U.S. military base on July 20 in protest at the recent rape of an Okinawa woman allegedly by a U.S. serviceman. About 100 protesters tied the handkerchiefs, sent from several parts of Japan and blazoned with messages such as ''No to the bases!,'' ''Never tolerate violence against women'' and ''Peace'' to fences surrounding the U.S. Marine Corps' Makiminato Service Area, a 2,750,000-square-meter storage facility.

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Urasoe, U.S. military sign ambulance accord

NAHA, Japan - Mitsuo Gima (L), mayor of Urasoe, Okinawa Prefecture, and Brig. Gen. Willie Williams, commander of the U.S. Forces in Okinawa, sign an agreement April 17 to allow Urasoe's fire engines and ambulances to pass through a U.S. base in the city in emergencies.

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U.S. naval port plan backer elected mayor of Urasoe, Okinawa

NAHA, Japan - Mitsuo Gima (L), who won Sunday's Urasoe mayoral election, raises his hands with his wife Asako in a celebration at his campaign office Feb. 11. Gima, 57, a former Okinawa prefectural assembly chairman, supports a plan to relocate a U.S. naval port to Urasoe from nearby Okinawa prefectural capital Naha. He won 19,739 votes, beating incumbent Kenichi Miyagi with 18,553. Gima was supported by the Liberal Democratic Party, the New Conservative Party and the New Komeito party.

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IT seminar begins in Okinawa as follow-up to PALM

NAHA, Japan - Senior officials from 14 countries in the Pacific including Japan begin a two-day seminar on information technology (IT) Jan. 23 in Urasoe, Okinawa Prefecture, as a follow-up to the Pacific Islands' Leaders Meeting (PALM) last April in Miyazaki Prefecture. Sponsored by the U.N. Development Program (UNDP), they will discuss how to bridge the digital divide in the Pacific.

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Clinton's gifts handed to Okinawa students

NAHA, Japan - Yukino Matsuda (L), 16, and Takashi Toma, 17, of Urasoe Senior High School in Okinawa, show their gifts from U.S. President Bill Clinton. The gifts were handed to them July 82 by a prefectural government official who said the president appreciated the yougsters in Okinawa for welcoming him in the July 21-23 Group of Eight (G-8) summit.

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Okinawa accepts relocating U.S. port to Urasoe

Okinawa Gov. Keiichi Inamine (C) is thronged by reporters in Tokyo on Jan. 29 after expressing his intention to allow the relocation of the U.S. Army port in the prefectural capital of Naha to the neighboring city of Urasoe. In a meeting between central government and Okinawa prefectural government officials earlier in the day, Inamine said he hopes Tokyo will help to turn Naha port into an international hub port after the U.S. military vacates the area.

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Spring training camp begins for Japan pro baseball clubs

Spring training camp kicks off for the Yakult Swallows at an almost empty ballpark in the Okinawa Prefecture city of Urasoe, southern Japan, amid COVID-19 fears on Feb. 1, 2022.

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Baseball players begin training for the 2006 season

URASOE, Japan - Yakult Swallows playing manager Atsuya Furuta receives flowers as his men look on during a welcome ceremony at the municipal office before the start of their official training for the 2006 season in Urasoe, Okinawa Prefecture, on Feb. 1. (Kyodo)

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Okinawa voters go to polls to pick new governor

NAHA, Japan - Voters cast their ballots in Urasoe, Okinawa Prefecture on Nov. 19 in the election to choose the successor to outgoing Okinawa Gov. Keiichi Inamine, with the relocation of a U.S. military base and local economic concerns among the major issues. (Kyodo)

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Okinawa voters go to polls to pick new governor

NAHA, Japan - Hirokazu Nakaima, a former vice governor backed by the ruling coalition, casts his ballot together with his second daughter Chisato in Urasoe, Okinawa Prefecture, on Nov. 19 in the election to choose the successor to outgoing Okinawa Gov. Keiichi Inamine. (Kyodo)

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Nakaima says to deal flexibly with base relocation

URASOE, Japan - Hirokazu Nakaima, who won the Nov. 19 Okinawa gubernatorial election, is interviewed by media organizations at his home in Urasoe, Okinawa Prefecture, on Nov. 20. He said he will deal flexibly with the contentious issue of relocating the U.S. Marine Corps' Futemma base within the prefecture. (Kyodo)

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All U.S. military personnel in Okinawa under curfew

URASOE, Japan - The Number One Gate of Camp Kinser, the U.S. base in the Makimoto service area for U.S. Marine Corps logistics operations on Okinawa. The photo was taken after the U.S. military imposed an indefinite curfew on all its personnel in Okinawa on Feb. 20 in the wake of an alleged rape of a teenage Okinawa girl by a U.S. marine. (Kyodo)

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Swallows slugger Yamada works to improve his fielding

Photo taken on Feb. 2, 2015, shows Yakult Swallows second baseman Tetsuto Yamada practicing during the team's training camp in Urasoe, Okinawa. After demolishing Central League pitching in his first full season, Yamada is working to improve his fielding. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Swallows slugger Yamada looks to improve his fielding

Photo taken on Feb. 6, 2015, shows Yakult Swallows second baseman Tetsuto Yamada practicing during the team's training camp in Urasoe, Okinawa. After demolishing Central League pitching in his first full season, Yamada is working to improve his fielding. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Swallows slugger Yamada works to improve his fielding

Photo taken on Feb. 2, 2015, shows Yakult Swallows second baseman Tetsuto Yamada (R) and his double-play partner Keiji Obiki practicing during the team's training camp in Urasoe, Okinawa. After demolishing Central League pitching in his first full season, Yamada is working to improve his fielding. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Baseball: Rakuten's Tanaka in preseason game

Rakuten Eagles pitcher Masahiro Tanaka walks to the dugout after ending the third inning in a preseason baseball game against the Yakult Swallows in the Okinawa Prefecture city of Urasoe, southern Japan, on Feb. 27, 2021.

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Baseball: Rakuten's Tanaka in preseason game

Masahiro Tanaka of the Rakuten Eagles pitches against the Yakult Swallows in a preseason baseball game in the Okinawa Prefecture city of Urasoe, southern Japan, on Feb. 27, 2021.

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Baseball: Rakuten's Tanaka in preseason game

Masahiro Tanaka of the Rakuten Eagles pitches against the Yakult Swallows in a preseason baseball game in the Okinawa Prefecture city of Urasoe, southern Japan, on Feb. 27, 2021.

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Baseball: Rakuten's Tanaka in preseason game

Masahiro Tanaka of the Rakuten Eagles pitches against the Yakult Swallows in a preseason baseball game in the Okinawa Prefecture city of Urasoe, southern Japan, on Feb. 27, 2021.

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U.S. Marines attend karate clinic in Okinawa

NAHA, Japan - U.S. Marines try to follow the moves of Yoshie Kadena (L), a world champion of Okinawa-style karate in 2008, in a clinic at a gymnasium of the U.S. Marine Corps' Camp Kinser in Urasoe, Okinawa Prefecture, on Jan. 16. The karate lesson was part of a cultural awareness seminar jointly held by the U.S. Marine Corps and the Japanese Foreign Ministry's liaison office in Okinawa. (Kyodo)

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Iwamura begins practice

URASOE, Japan - Japanese outfielder Akinori Iwamura (3rd from left), who has signed a three-year deal with the Tampa Bay Devil Rays, kicks off his practice at a ball park in Urasoe, Okinawa Prefecture, exactly at 11:11 a.m. on Jan. 11. (MLB) (Kyodo)

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Iwamura begins practice

URASOE, Japan - Japanese outfielder Akinori Iwamura, who has signed a three-year deal with the Tampa Bay Devil Rays, practices batting after licking off his training at a ball park in Urasoe, Okinawa Prefecture, exactly at 11:11 a.m. on Jan. 11. (MLB) (Kyodo)

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U.S. consulate general in Okinawa

URASOE, Japan - Raymond Greene, consulate general of the United States, speaks at a press conference in Urasoe, Okinawa Prefecture, on March 9, 2011, after a senior U.S. diplomat allegedly made disparaging comments about the people of Okinawa, sparking anger among residents and politicians in the southern island prefecture. Greene said that the reports do not reflect the views of Washington. (Kyodo)

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Candidates make last pitches for Okinawa gubernatorial race

NAHA, Japan - Incumbent Okinawa Gov. Hirokazu Nakaima (R) shakes hands with a voter on a street in Urasoe, Okinawa Prefecture, on Nov. 27, 2010, a day ahead of the gubernatorial election. The race is considered crucial to the future of the Japan-U.S. security alliance involving a planned relocation of a U.S. military base. (Kyodo)

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UNESCO designates Okinawa dance as intangible heritage

NAHA, Japan - Performers of Kumi Odori, a traditional dance form, celebrate on Nov. 18, 2010, in Urasoe, Okinawa Prefecture, after the U.N. Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization designated the dance as an Intangible Cultural Heritage. Kumi Odori, which literally means ''combination dance,'' is a music and dance performance originating in the island prefecture. (Kyodo)

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Kumiodori traditional performing art in Japan's Okinawa

A Kumiodori performance is conducted in Urasoe, Okinawa Prefecture, on May 15, 2019, at an opening ceremony for a series of events celebrating the 300th anniversary of the first performance of the traditional performing art in Okinawa. Kumiodori, a combination of lyrics, music and dance, was created by Tamagusuku Chokun, a dance magistrate of the Ryukyu Kingdom, in the early 18th century to entertain Chinese envoys sent by the Chinese Emperor. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Kumiodori traditional performing art in Japan's Okinawa

A Kumiodori performance is conducted in Urasoe, Okinawa Prefecture, on May 15, 2019, at an opening ceremony for a series of events celebrating the 300th anniversary of the first performance of the traditional performing art in Okinawa. Kumiodori, a combination of lyrics, music and dance, was created by Tamagusuku Chokun, a dance magistrate of the Ryukyu Kingdom, in the early 18th century to entertain Chinese envoys sent by the Chinese Emperor. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Okinawa Gov. Tamaki

Okinawa Gov. Denny Tamaki is pictured in Yomitan, Okinawa Prefecture, on Jan. 31, 2019, after visiting U.S. military bases in Urasoe and Yomitan in Japan's southernmost island prefecture. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo