March, 2020 | Stand With Okinawa

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March 31, 2020 Ryukyu Shimpo Editorial: Expert panel calls for public discourse on base-issues

March 31, 2020 Ryukyu Shimpo How should Henoko’s military base construction issue, stemming from the relocation of U.S. Marine Corps […]

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Mar 30 (Mon): Coronavirus infected 2 U.S. soldiers stationed at Kadena Base, but no contact-tracing is allowed / Hired civilian guards work without protection of a mask

Coronavirus is spreading in Okinawa. Japan declared on 29th that no entry is permitted from China, Korea, and U.S.A., which […]

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March 27 (FRI): The Supreme Court dismissed the final appeal filed by Okinawa Prefecture / the former Prime Minister Hatoyama visited the tent

The court made another unjust ruling to please the Abe administration. Okinawa’s lawsuit had requested cancellation of the decision made […]

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March 27, 2020 Ryukyu Shimpo Editorial: 75 years after U.S. landing on Kerama, remember the past for a peaceful future

March 27, 2020 Ryukyu Shimpo Reject all things that beget war. The tragedy that took the precious lives and wealth […]

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March 26, 2020 Ryukyu Shimpo OPG loses lawsuit against Land Minister’s decision to cancel OPG’s revocation of land reclamation permission

March 26, 2020 Ryukyu Shimpo Regarding construction of the Futenma replacement facility in Henoko, Nago City as part of relocating […]

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Mar 25 (Wed): Masataka Okuhira says: “Leprosy and the new military base have the same root” / 1058 truckloads of earth/sand were delivered to Motobu Shiokawa and Awa piers

The drone regulations that became effective in May last year make it difficult to photograph the construction site of the […]

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Mar 23 (Mon) : At Motobu Shiokawa Pier, a shipping contractor brought in a belt conveyor without permission.／50 citizens made a protest at three places though being under recent threat of the coronavirus.

An illegal activity of the Okinawa Defense Bureau (ODB) was found out again. A responsible person in the Okinawa Preferectural […]

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March 22, 2020 Ryukyu Shimpo Former members of referendum association meet, plan to ask prefectural government to re-revoke land reclamation permit

March 22, 2020 Ryukyu Shimpo On March 21, former members of the “Henoko” Prefectural Referendum Association, who directly petitioned for […]

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March 22, 2020 Ryukyu Shimpo Former members of referendum association meet, plan to ask prefectural government to re-revoke land reclamation permit

March 22, 2020 Ryukyu Shimpo On March 21, former members of the “Henoko” Prefectural Referendum Association, who directly petitioned for […]

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March 22, 2020 Ryukyu Shimpo Former members of referendum association meet, plan to ask prefectural government to re-revoke land reclamation permit

March 22, 2020 Ryukyu Shimpo On March 21, former members of the “Henoko” Prefectural Referendum Association, who directly petitioned for […]

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March 18 (Wed): Former Mayor of Nago joins the protest every week / At Awa the delivery of earth and sand continued until 8pm

We have a regrettable memory. In the mayoral election in Nago 2 years ago, we could not make Susumu Inamine […]

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March 18, 2020 Ryukyu Shimpo Ginowan citizens complain of 90-decibel national anthem broadcast from MCAS Futenma

March 18, 2020 Ryukyu Shimpo On March 17 it came to light that townspeople had been successively lodging complaints concerning […]

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Mar 16 (Mon): Mr. Oshiro monitors dump trucks at Awa every day “homeland soil is for peace” / Unexpected participation by 4 college students to the sit-in in front of the gate

Protest movement is supported by steady efforts of many people. Mr. Oshiro Seiji (assumed name, 73 yrs old) is one […]

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Mar 13 (Fri): The Okinawa Defense Bureau faces 2 issues on the shipping of earth/sand / In the rain, 40 citizens continued to protest.

We have learned that the Okinawa Defense Bureau is struggling to speed up the earth/sand shipping operation. It proves that […]

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March 12, 2020 Ryukyu Shimpo High levels of PFOS detected in Kin Town, the highest level at site adjacent to US base

March 12, 2020 Ryukyu Shimpo It came to light on March 11 that through a water quality study conducted on […]

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Mar 11 (Wed): U.S. Army helicopters exercise in the Henoko sky for two nights in a row outraged the residents / A sit-in protest in Awa restrained dump trucks from making left turns

It happened the last night and the night before in the sky of Henoko: 2 to 4 U.S. military helicopters […]

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March 9 (Mon): Diving team servey: “Coral bleaching is on process” / 852 truckloads of earth and sand shipped out at Awa and Shiokawa

Last week the diving team “Rainbow” surveyed on the condition of coral in the Oura Bay. The focused survey point […]

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Mar 6 (Fri): Tomorrow’s meeting to be cancelled due to coronavirus outbreak / 60 protestors rallied at 4 locations

The intensive meeting held on the 1st Saturday of every month in front of the gate is usually attended by […]

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Mar 4 (Wed) :The U.S. military bases are the largest barrier to economic development in Okinawa / The riot police in front of the gate respected “Day of Sanshin”

”Economy in Okinawa depends on the revenue from the U.S. military bases and therefore, Okinawans will be in trouble if […]

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March 2, (Mon): Only ten work vessels for ground improvement exist in Japan / Total 1,274 truckloads of earth and sand shipped out from Awa and Shiokawa

As the soft seabed, not included in the original construction plan, was discovered at the reclamation area two years ago, […]