A referendum was held in Okinawa Prefecture on 24 February 2019. The referendum asked whether voters approved or opposed the landfill work at Henoko Bay...

COVID-19 pandemic, calling it inadequate. In the lead up to the 2019 Okinawan referendum on landfill work at Henoko Bay for the expansion of the base in...

debate. Over 70% of voters in Okinawa opposed the relocation in the 2019 Okinawan referendum. Tamaki supported the complete removal of the base, while Sakima...

results of the referendum, Prime Minister Shinzo Abe pushed for an understanding by Okinawan citizens for the relocation of the base. Some Okinawan voters claimed...

沖縄県, Hepburn: Okinawa-ken; Japanese pronunciation: [o.kʲi.na.wa(ꜜ.keɴ)], Okinawan: 沖縄県, romanized: Uchināchin) is the southernmost and westernmost prefecture...

and transferred the power over Okinawan land leases to the Prime Minister, ignored the 1997 Nago City citizens' referendum (which had rejected the new base)...

Policies surrounding the punishment of these crimes and the protection of Okinawan women are few and far between, trials are most often handled by military...

if approved, are to be presented to the people for ratification in a referendum before being promulgated by the Emperor, in the name of the people. The...

proposal for a new site in Henoko Bay, Nago, has faced opposition from Okinawans and the local government who wish for the new base to be located off the...

which have active statehood movements and voted for statehood in recent referendums: D.C. in 2016 and Puerto Rico in 2020. Their admission to the Union as...

of a 1997 referendum where the majority voted to reject a replacement facility. In opposition to this, in September 2003, a group of Okinawan, Japanese...

Ryukyuan (a branch of modern Okinawan) people had their own state historically (Ryukyu Kingdom). Although some Okinawan people have sought independence...

educational support. Besides Japanese, the Ryukyuan languages (Amami, Kunigami, Okinawan, Miyako, Yaeyama, Yonaguni), part of the Japonic language family, are spoken...

regional capital, and numerous Japanese (including ethnic Koreans and Okinawan and Taiwanese) migrated to the islands. In the December 1939 census, the...

Ethnic group: Native Hawaiians, Hapa, Haoles, Filipinos, Pākē, Kepanī, Okinawans Guam Proposed state: Guam Political party: Commission on Decolonization...

free bakeries & cafés. In 2004, he earned a black belt in the traditional Okinawan Goju Ryu; he has also been part of a long-running advertising campaign...

the event, which was attended by Emperor Akihito, was denounced by many Okinawans, who saw it as celebrating a betrayal. There were demonstrations in both...

Institute for National Defense and Security Research in Taiwan reported that Okinawan residents were feeling anxious about China's military buildup, noting that...

an opposition-supported candidate. Aiko Shimajiri, state minister for Okinawan affairs, lost her seat to former Ginowan, Okinawa mayor Yoichi Iha, a critic...

Yekaterinburg – known as Sverdlovsk in the Soviet Union. Yonashiro – changed from Okinawan "Yonagusuku" to a Japanese name and elevated to town status in 1994. Yuzhno-Sakhalinsk...

committed by U.S. soldiers occupying Okinawa was also a notable phenomenon. Okinawan historian Oshiro Masayasu (former director of the Okinawa Prefectural Historical...

People from Okinawa were also coming to the city, and in 1924, the oldest Okinawans Association in Japan was founded in Kawasaki. As part of World War II...

following a referendum in which at least 93% of voters approved of statehood. By then, most voters were not Native Hawaiian. The 1959 referendum did not have...

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freedom of speech in the Constitution of Japan. On 26 October 1987, an Okinawan supermarket owner burned the Hinomaru, before the start of the National...

local woman, have fueled protests and calls for troop withdrawal. In 2019, a referendum saw over 70% oppose relocating Futenma Air Station to Henoko Bay,...

February 2019). "Who are the Rohingya people?". National Geographic. Archived from the original on 11 February 2019. Retrieved 15 December 2019. Albert...

Oak becomes shipwrecked off the coast of Okinawa and a junk is built by Okinawan peoples for the survivors. 1842. On the basis of the British naval victory...

December 13, "an overflow crowd of GIs" watched the normal show, plus an Okinawan folk song group that told the crowd, "We do not like the American military...

from kidney failure at a hospital in Houston. Keisai Aoki, 75, Japanese Okinawan missionary The Apollo 9 astronauts completed the most critical part of...