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Iwakuni city willing to accept Osprey deployment

Iwakuni Mayor Yoshihiko Fukuda (front) speaks at a city assembly session in Yamaguchi Prefecture on Aug. 27, 2024, expressing the western Japan city's intention to accept the deployment of U.S. Navy Ospreys at the U.S. military's Iwakuni base.

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Governor, mayor lodge protest over Osprey deployment

TOKYO, Japan - Yamaguchi Gov. Sekinari Nii (C) and Iwakuni Mayor Yoshihiko Fukuda (R) present a written request to Defense Minister Satoshi Morimoto at the ministry in Tokyo on July 25, 2012. The governor and mayor lodged strong protests with the central government over the deployment of the U.S. Osprey military aircraft in Iwakuni, Yamaguchi Prefecture, requesting the Ospreys not be stationed for long at the Iwakuni base and calling for the planes to be returned to the United States if their safety is not verified.

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Iwakuni mayor rejects Osprey deployment

IWAKUNI, Japan - Japanese Defense Minister Satoshi Morimoto (2nd from L) and Iwakuni Mayor Yoshihiko Fukuda (R) hold talks at the Iwakuni city office in Iwakuni, Yamaguchi Prefecture, on July 1, 2012. Fukuda rejected a U.S. plan to deploy the MV-22 Osprey transport aircraft at the Marines' Iwakuni Air Station in Yamaguchi Prefecture for trial flights ahead of its deployment in Okinawa Prefecture during the talks.

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Gov't not to OK transfer of Marines from Okinawa to Iwakuni

TOKYO, Japan - Yamaguchi Gov. Sekinari Nii (L front) gives a refusal document to Foreign Minister Koichiro Gemba at the Foreign Ministry in Tokyo On Feb. 13, 2012. Gemba said that the government will not give the go-ahead for the United States to redeploy some of the U.S. Marines on the Japanese island of Okinawa to a base in Iwakuni, Yamaguchi Prefecture, in association with Washington's ongoing review of its defense strategy. Iwakuni Mayor Yoshihiko Fukuda (2nd from L front) attended the talks.

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Gov't to lift subsidy freeze on Iwakuni now new mayor elected

TOKYO, Japan - Defense Minister Shigeru Ishiba (L) talks with new Iwakuni Mayor Yoshihiko Fukuda at the Defense Agency in Tokyo on Feb. 14. Ishiba told Fukuda that the government plans to lift its freeze on a subsidy to the city in Yamaguchi Prefecture.

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Pro-U.S. fighters relocation Fukuda wins Iwakuni election

IWAKUNI, Japan - Yoshihiko Fukuda (C), supportive of relocating U.S. fighter jets, shakes hands with his supporters Feb. 10 after edging out anti-relocation former Iwakuni Mayor Katsusuke Ihara in the closely fought Iwakuni mayoral election in Yamaguchi Prefecture the same day.

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LDP lawmaker Fukuda to run for Iwakuni mayor over U.S. base row

IWAKUNI, Japan - Yoshihiko Fukuda, a House of Representatives member of the governing Liberal Democratic Party, announced Jan. 5 he will be running in the mayoral election next month in Iwakuni city following requests from local legislators and businesses supporting the U.S. plan to relocate jet fighters to the city in Yamaguchi Prefecture.

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LDP lawmaker Fukuda to run for Iwakuni mayor over U.S. base row

IWAKUNI, Japan - Yoshihiko Fukuda, a House of Representatives member of the governing Liberal Democratic Party, announced Jan. 5 he will be running in the mayoral election next month in Iwakuni city following requests from local legislators and businesses supporting the U.S. plan to relocate jet fighters to the city in Yamaguchi Prefecture. (Kyodo)

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Pro-U.S. fighters relocation Fukuda wins Iwakuni election

IWAKUNI, Japan - Yoshihiko Fukuda (C), supportive of relocating U.S. fighter jets, shakes hands with his supporters Feb. 10 after edging out anti-relocation former Iwakuni Mayor Katsusuke Ihara in the closely fought Iwakuni mayoral election in Yamaguchi Prefecture the same day. (Kyodo)

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Gov't to lift subsidy freeze on Iwakuni now new mayor elected

TOKYO, Japan - Defense Minister Shigeru Ishiba (L) talks with new Iwakuni Mayor Yoshihiko Fukuda at the Defense Agency in Tokyo on Feb. 14. Ishiba told Fukuda that the government plans to lift its freeze on a subsidy to the city in Yamaguchi Prefecture. (Kyodo)

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Gov't not to OK transfer of Marines from Okinawa to Iwakuni

TOKYO, Japan - Yamaguchi Gov. Sekinari Nii (L front) gives a refusal document to Foreign Minister Koichiro Gemba at the Foreign Ministry in Tokyo On Feb. 13, 2012. Gemba said that the government will not give the go-ahead for the United States to redeploy some of the U.S. Marines on the Japanese island of Okinawa to a base in Iwakuni, Yamaguchi Prefecture, in association with Washington's ongoing review of its defense strategy. Iwakuni Mayor Yoshihiko Fukuda (2nd from L front) attended the talks. (Kyodo)

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Mayor of Iwakuni, Japan

Yoshihiko Fukuda, mayor of Iwakuni, speaks in the city on Dec. 6, 2018, after a U.S. Marines FA-18 jet and KC-130 tanker plane collided and crashed off the western Japan coast. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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U.S. to start moving carrier-based aircraft to Iwakuni in Nov.

Yoshihiko Fukuda (far R), mayor of Iwakuni in western Japan, receives an explanation from foreign and defense ministry officials in Iwakuni on Jan. 20, 2017, about the U.S. military's plans to start relocating its carrier-based aircraft from a base southwest of Tokyo to the Marine Corps' base in the city. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Iwakuni mayor indicates approval for U.S. deployment of F-35

Iwakuni Mayor Yoshihiko Fukuda (R) speaks during a meeting of the city assembly in Yamaguchi Prefecture, western Japan, on Nov. 2, 2016. He indicated that Iwakuni is likely to endorse the U.S. plan to deploy 16 F-35 fighters at the U.S. military base there in January and August 2017. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo