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Okinawa (Japan)

Type: City

Name: Okinawa (Japan)

Country: Japan

Latitude: 26.34

Longitude: 127.790001

population: 125,485

First Reported 11/20/2009 - Updated 21 hours ago - 7 Documents

U.S. serviceman admits to Okinawa hit-and-run

NAHA, Okinawa Pref. (Kyodo) The U.S. Army serviceman suspected of hitting a Japanese man with a car and killing him earlier this month in Okinawa has effectively admitted his involvement in the accident and is willing to apologize to the relatives of ... [Japan Times - 21 hours ago]

Entities: Okinawa (Japan), John Roos, United States, Air Station

First Reported 11/20/2009 - Updated 11/20/2009 - 2 Documents

U.S. ambassador to visit Okinawa on Nov 30

NAHA U.S. Ambassador to Japan John Roos plans to visit Okinawa Prefecture on Nov 30 for talks with Gov Hirokazu Nakaima on the relocation of a U.S. Marine airfield, sources close to the move said Friday in the southern prefecture.Roos is expected to stay ... [Japan Today - 11/20/2009]

Entities: Okinawa (Japan), John Roos, United States, Hirokazu Nakaima, Mizuho Fukushima

First Reported 19 hours ago - Updated 15 hours ago - 2 Documents

U.S. soldier 'sorry' for Japan death

1:55 pm TWN, AFP TOKYO -- A U.S. soldier in Japan has apologized over a deadly hit-and-run accident, his lawyer said Friday, in a high-profile case that comes amid a bilateral row over American military bases. The soldier “is now getting to realize that ... [China Post - 15 hours ago]

Entities: Japan, Okinawa (Japan), United States, Yukio Hatoyama, Military/Armed Forces

First Reported 11/19/2009 - Updated 11/19/2009 - 2 Documents

Yukio Hatoyama

Hatoyama, Hirano urge U.S. to cooperate on Okinawa hit-and-run

Japan will urge the United States more strongly to cooperate in its ongoing investigation into a fatal hit-and-run accident in Okinawa Prefecture allegedly involving a U.S. Army member who has refused to turn up for questioning, Japans top government ... [Japan Today - 11/19/2009]

Entities: Okinawa (Japan), Hirofumi Hirano, Yukio Hatoyama, United States

First Reported 11/19/2009 - Updated 11/19/2009 - 2 Documents (in Politics)

Scaling the Asian wall

IT TOOK Barack Obama nearly a year in office to get to East Asia. When he did, it was for an intensive nine-day obstacle course, which he tried to negotiate with the placatory charm and openness to dialogue that have marked his diplomacy. Unsurprisingly, ... [The Economist - 11/19/2009]

Entities: Okinawa (Japan), Bilateral, China, Katsuya Okada

First Reported 11/19/2009 - Updated 11/19/2009 - 1 Documents

Circling Sharks Smell Blood

Victor Davis Hanson, RealClearPoliticsOn his recent trip to Asia, President Obama found China, Japan and South Korea - like many nations these days - in no mood to hear more American lectures.Beijing is worried about owning so much American debt. Tokyo ... [RealClearPolitics - Homepage - 11/19/2009]

Entities: Victor Davis Hanson, Okinawa (Japan), Budget Deficit, Seoul, North Korea

First Reported 11/19/2009 - Updated 11/19/2009 - 1 Documents

Japan coalition party wants US base moved to Guam or islet

TOKYO (AFP) A US-Japan row became more complicated Thursday when a junior partner in Japan's coalition government said an American airbase should be moved off southern Okinawa to a more remote islet or to Guam.Washington-Tokyo ties have been strained ... [AFP via Yahoo! - 11/19/2009]

Entities: Guam, Okinawa (Japan), Japan, Coalition

First Reported 11/19/2009 - Updated 11/19/2009 - 1 Documents (in Conflicts & Crime)

Slowly, secret U.S. nuke deals come to light

OSAKA — Decades since Washington and Tokyo reportedly crafted secret agreements to allow U.S. nuclear weapons in Japanese territory, declassified documents from the U.S. detailing its nuclear presence in Okinawa and elsewhere in Japan during the postwar ... [Japan Times - 11/19/2009]

Entities: Okinawa (Japan), Nuclear Weapon, Japan, United States, Corroboration

First Reported 11/20/2009 - Updated 11/20/2009 - 1 Documents

Behind Asia's nice manners, tough lessons for Obama

Barack Obama's first trip to Asia, which ended yesterday, has underscored two related truths about America and its 44th president. In his foreign dealings Mr Obama is long on charm and reason but thus far at least short on concrete results. And people ... [The Independent - 11/20/2009]

Entities: Barack Obama, China, South Korea, Nikita Khrushchev

First Reported 11/20/2009 - Updated 11/20/2009 - 1 Documents

FACTBOX - Five political risks to watch in Japan

TOKYO (Reuters) - Japanese Prime Minister Yukio Hatoyama, two months in office, faces headaches over how to keep his Democratic Party's campaign promises while cutting huge debt and trying to keep the economy from tipping back into recession.He is also ... [thestar.com.my - 11/20/2009]

Entities: Japan, Hatoyama (Japan), Bank of Japan, Hirohisa Fujii, Deflation

First Reported 11/19/2009 - Updated 11/19/2009 - 1 Documents

'Trust me,' Hatoyama tells Obama on U.S. military base dispute

TOKYO Prime Minister Yukio Hatoyama said Thursday that he asked U.S. President Barack Obama to trust him on the dispute over the relocation of a U.S. Marine base in Okinawa Prefecture, when they met in Tokyo last Friday. Hatoyama stressed that the remark ... [Japan Today - 11/19/2009]

Entities: Yukio Hatoyama, Barack Obama, Okinawa (Japan)

First Reported 13 hours ago - Updated 13 hours ago - 1 Documents (in Conflicts & Crime)

Gov't to admit existence of secret pact on U.S. bringing nukes into Japan

TOKYO The Foreign Ministry has decided to admit the existence of a secret Japan-U.S. pact under which Tokyo allows stopovers of U.S. military vessels or aircraft carrying nuclear weapons, ministry sources said Saturday. During its in-house probe, the ... [Japan Today - 13 hours ago]

Entities: Japan, Nuclear Weapon, Katsuya Okada, United States

Quotes

...a grain-fed beef market but certain groups were more receptive to the health qualities of New Zealand grass-fed product, Mr Petersen said. "There is strong support among a number of key retail and food service outlets for New Zealand grass-fed beef, with the single biggest retail user of chilled grass-fed beef in Japan being one of the two largest supermarket chains in Okinawa."

Rugby helps highlight NZ meat in Japan [Southland Times - 5 hours ago]

"The longer it continues, the more frustrated people in Okinawa will become," Kyodo newsnews agency quoted Hatoyama as saying on Thursday. "I hope they (the U S military) will cooperate toward an early resolution."

U.S. soldier admits may have driven car in Japan crash (Reuters) [Yahoo! News Australia - 11/20/2009]

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USMC CAB provides one-of-a-kind support [GlobalSecurity.org - 11/19/2009]
A Letter to the Citizens of Hiroshima and Nagas... [Japan Focus - 11/19/2009]
Obama Meets Hatoyama in Japan [HispanicBusiness.com - 11/19/2009]

Blogs

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Taste Test: natto, gooey fermented soy beans [Boing Boing - 11/20/2009] In Japan, we eat soy all the time. For breakfast we have rice with natto and miso soup with tofu; for dinner we pop edamame into our mouths in between chopsticks-full ...
Circling Sharks Smell Blood [RealClearPolitics - Homepage - 11/19/2009] Victor Davis Hanson, RealClearPoliticsOn his recent trip to Asia, President Obama found China, Japan and South Korea - like many nations these days - in no mood ...
Downfall POTUS [NO QUARTER - 11/18/2009] Hiroshima Again. At Tokyo, the peculiar bow by POTUS to the diminutive Japanese Emperor Akhitio elicited predictable media chit-chat on the Monday following ...
There's less to U.S.-Japanese frictions than me... [The Call - 11/17/2009] By Jun Okumura and Ross Schaap The conventional wisdom in U.S.-Japanese relations is that things were largely fine until the Democratic Party of Japan (DPJ) ...
Friends with issues [Raw Japan - 11/14/2009] They may be on first-name terms, but Barack’s discussions with Yukio during his 24-hour stay in Tokyo have left unresolved a feud over a U.S. military base and deeper ...

Audio/Video

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Are shootings at military bases common, or was ... [Slate Magazine - 11/06/2009]
Is There a Lot of Crime on Military Bases? [Slate Magazine - 11/06/2009]

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