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| Identifier | Subject | Date | Office | Classification | Tags |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 06NAHA103 |
OKINAWAN EXCEPTIONALISM: THE CHINA THREAT OR LACK THEREOF [...] (C) Summary: Despite China's rapidly expanding economic and military activities, including in waters near Okinawa, Okinawans claim they do not share America's or Japan's sense of threat from China. While many mainland Japanese officials and influentials say they recognize China as a potent [...] |
2006-04-26 01:20:00 | Consulate Naha | CONFIDENTIAL | MARR PINS JA CH TW |
| 06NAHA199 |
OKINAWA MUNICIPAL ASSEMBLY ELECTIONS BODE WELL FOR [...] No summary [...] |
2006-09-11 12:16:00 | Consulate Naha | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | MARR PINS JA |
| 06NAHA204 |
ONE SMALL STEP FOR THE FUTENMA REPLACEMENT FACILITY [...] (SBU) Summary: In the first tangible step towards building the Marine Corps Airs Station Futenma Replacement Facility (FRF), late the afternoon of September 15 the Okinawa Defense Facilities Administration Bureau (DFAB) and Nago City Board of Education officials entered Camp Schwab to begin a [...] |
2006-09-19 09:39:00 | Consulate Naha | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | MARR PGOV JA |
| 06NAHA209 |
GOVERNOR'S RACE: REFORMISTS UNITE BEHIND ANTI-BASE CANDIDATE [...] (SBU) Summary: After months of polarizing debate and a brief split, Okinawa's six reformist parties agreed to back a single candidate for the Okinawa prefectural governor's race, upper house national Diet member Keiko ITOKAZU. If all six parties remain united, Itokazu's chances for election ar [...] |
2006-09-22 11:02:00 | Consulate Naha | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | JA PREL MARR |
| 06NAHA213 |
LDP SEEKING SILVER LINING IN PENDING GUBERNATORIAL RACE [...] (C) Summary: Conservative, pro-US/Japan alliance Okinawans selected the capable but not particularly popular Hirokazu NAKAIMA as their candidate for the November prefectural governor's election, then hoped the anti-alliance reformists would run two or more candidates and split the opposition [...] |
2006-09-25 09:01:00 | Consulate Naha | CONFIDENTIAL | MARR PINS JA |
| 06NAHA214 |
LDP SEEKING SILVER LINING IN PENDING GUBERNATORIAL RACE [...] (C) Summary: Conservative, pro-US/Japan alliance Okinawans selected the capable but not particularly popular Hirokazu NAKAIMA as their candidate for the November prefectural governor's election, then hoped the anti-alliance reformists would run two or more candidates and split the opposition [...] |
2006-09-25 09:01:00 | Consulate Naha | CONFIDENTIAL | MARR PINS JA |
| 06NAHA225 |
SURVEY OF PAST OKINAWAN POLLS SHOWS INCREASING ACCEPTANCE OF [...] No summary [...] |
2006-10-13 10:55:00 | Consulate Naha | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | JA PREL MARR |
| 06NAHA227 |
SURVEY OF PAST OKINAWAN POLLS SHOWS INCREASING ACCEPTANCE [...] (C) Summary. In the upcoming November 19 gubernatorial election, the reformist camp, led by candidate Keiko ITOKAZU,has made opposing the relocation of Marine Corp Air Station (MCAS) Futenma within Okinawa and pushing for withdrawal of US bases from the prefecture its primary focus for the elec [...] |
2006-10-16 08:40:00 | Consulate Naha | CONFIDENTIAL | JA PREL MARR |
| 06NAHA228 |
PAC3 SUCCESSFULLY INTRODUCED TO OKINAWA [...] (C) Summary: The introduction of the Patriot PAC-3 Air Defense Battalion into Okinawa is a success, with the locally (in Okinawa) most difficult part, the ground movement of sensitive equipment from port and pier to its destination within Kadena AFB, completed October 13. Despite some miscalc [...] |
2006-10-16 10:19:00 | Consulate Naha | CONFIDENTIAL | MARR PINS JA |
| 06NAHA229 |
OKINAWA GUBERNATORIAL CANDIDATES ANNOUNCE PLATFORMS, [...] (C) Summary: Recently both Okinawa gubernatorial candidates have announced their policy platforms, which are long on aspirations and short on details. Reformist candidate Keiko ITOKAZU declared her top issue to be opposing the relocation within Okinawa of Marine Corps Air Station (MCAS) Futen [...] |
2006-10-18 08:41:00 | Consulate Naha | CONFIDENTIAL | JA PREL MARR |
| 06NAHA238 |
OKINAWA GUBERNATORIAL CAMPAIGN: POSTER SPOT REPORT [...] (SBU) Summary: The Okinawa Prefecture gubernatorial race remains too close to call, and the two major candidates are engaged in a technically illegal unofficial poster campaign. The reformist parties backing the woman running as their unified candidate seem torn between self-promotion and gett [...] |
2006-11-08 03:11:00 | Consulate Naha | CONFIDENTIAL | MARR JA KN |
| 06NAHA241 |
OKINAWA GOVERNOR'S RACE VERY CLOSE, BUT WINDS SHIFTING TO [...] (C) With just three days left until the November 19 Okinawa gubernatorial election, all the media in Okinawa and both campaign camps still say they see the race as too close to call. Nevertheless, we are willing to go out on a limb and predict a narrow victory by the conservative candidate Hir [...] |
2006-11-16 12:04:00 | Consulate Naha | CONFIDENTIAL | JA PREL MARR |
| 06NAHA243 |
CONSERVATIVE CANDIDATE NAKAIMA WIN OKINAWA GOVERNOR'S RACE [...] (C) Summary. On November 19, Okinawan voters elected conservative candidate Hirokazu NAKAIMA over reformist, anti-base candidate Keiko ITOKAZU as their new governor by a margin of 5.6 points. Nakaima's victory showed the Okinawan electorate rejected Itokazu's focus on the elimination of Marine [...] |
2006-11-20 07:55:00 | Consulate Naha | CONFIDENTIAL | JA PREL MARR |
| 06NAHA253 |
HOW THE LDP MACHINE USED PRE-ELECTION DAY VOTING TO WIN THE [...] (C) Summary. In the November 19 Okinawan Gubernatorial election, conservative Governor Hirokazu NAKAIMA beat his rival candidate reformist Keiko ITOKAZU by over 37,000 votes (347,303 votes to 309,985), in an election that the press was reporting as too close to call right up to election day. E [...] |
2006-12-20 08:49:00 | Consulate Naha | CONFIDENTIAL | JA MARR PREL |
| 06NAHA56 |
GOJ TAKING HARD LINE WITH OKINAWAN OFFICIALS ON FUTENMA [...] (SBU) Summary: Newly-elected Nago City Mayor Yoshikazu Shimabukuro said he had a disappointing dinner March 6 with Japan Defense Agency Director General Fukushiro Nukaga. Shimabukuro said Nukaga refused to discuss agreed plan to relocate a Marine air station to Nago City, deflecting conversa [...] |
2006-03-07 08:33:00 | Consulate Naha | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | MARR PINS JA |
| 06NAHA66 |
OKINAWA'S ECONOMY: A SLOW TRANSITION [...] Summary: Okinawa's economy has several contradictions. Since 1972, this island economy has been growing two times faster than the rest of Japan, yet wages remain 70% of the mainland average. Jobs are being created, yet unemployment remains stubbornly high. The classic Japanese export-based [...] |
2006-03-17 01:15:00 | Consulate Naha | UNCLASSIFIED | JA MARR PREL |
| 06NAHA79 |
FUTENMA RELOCATION: NAGO MAYOR'S HIGH-WIRE ACT GETS SHAKEN [...] (SBU) Summary: As events appear to be building toward a "final decision" by the GOJ on the specific location and configuration of the Marine Corp Air Station (MCAS) Futenma relocation facility (FRF), the personal negotiation track between Defense Minister Fukushiro Nukaga and Nago Mayor Yoshik [...] |
2006-03-31 00:14:00 | Consulate Naha | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | MARR PREL JA |
| 06NAHA85 |
GOJ-NAGO AGREEMENT ON FUTENMA PLEASES CONSERVATIVES, ANGERS [...] (SBU) Summary: On April 8, 2006 Japan Defense Agency (JDA) Director General Fukushiro Nukaga and Nago Mayor Yoshikazu Shimabukuro reached an agreement on a two runway, V-shaped configuration for the Marine Corp Air Station (MCAS) Futenma relocation facility (FRF) to be constructed on the co [...] |
2006-04-11 08:51:00 | Consulate Naha | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | MARR PREL JA |
| 06NAHA96 |
OKINAWA'S NEXT GOVERNOR: POSSIBLE CANDIDATES [...] (SBU) Introduction: In the following discussion of possible candidates for governor in this November's gubernatorial election, it is worth noting that Okinawa, unlike Japan as a whole, has had a functioning two-party system since reversion in 1972. Since that time, Okinawa has seen the fortun [...] |
2006-04-20 10:16:00 | Consulate Naha | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | MARR PREL JA |
| 07NAHA128 |
OKINAWA MAYORS FINALLY REALIZE BASE REALIGNMENT IS REAL [...] No summary [...] |
2007-09-27 07:43:00 | Consulate Naha | UNCLASSIFIED | MARR PGOV PREL PINS JA |
| 07NAHA21 |
COURTESY CALL BY TOP US COMMANDING GENERAL IN OKINAWA ON [...] (C) Summary: The tone of the January 26 courtesy call by the senior US military official in Okinawa on the new governor of Okinawa Prefecture was warm and friendly. In a break from previous administrations, Governor Hirokazu NAKAIMA refrained from lecturing LtGen Joseph Weber on Okinawan his [...] |
2007-01-30 08:52:00 | Consulate Naha | CONFIDENTIAL | MARR PINS JA |
| 07NAHA47 |
DEFENSE MINISTER KYUMA AGREES TO PRESS AHEAD ON FRF PLAN [...] (C) SUMMARY: DEFENSE MINISTER KYUMA TRAVELED TO OKINAWA FOR A ""PRIVATE"" BUT WIDELY REPORTED MEETING WITH THE CONSUL GENERAL TO DISCUSS THE WAY FORWARD ON IMPLEMENTING THE FUTENMA REPLACEMENT FACILITY (FRF) PLAN THAT HAD BEEN AGREED TO BY THE TWO GOVERNMENTS AT THE OCTOBER 2005 AND MAY 2006 S [...] |
2007-03-12 08:33:00 | Consulate Naha | CONFIDENTIAL | MARR PGOV PINS PREL JA IZ |
| 07NAHA49 |
WEATHER GIVES OKINAWA GOVERNOR OPTION OF SIDE-STEPPING [...] No summary [...] |
2007-03-16 04:01:00 | Consulate Naha | CONFIDENTIAL | MARR PGOV PREL JA CH TW |
| 07NAHA53 |
GOVERNOR NAKAIMA NOT YET READY TO ACCEPT FRF [...] No summary [...] |
2007-03-22 08:45:00 | Consulate Naha | CONFIDENTIAL | JA MARR PREL |
| 07NAHA65 |
LOWEST OKINAWAN VOTER TURNOUT SINCE REVERSION, CONSERVATIVE [...] Summary: Just 47.8% of Okinawa's eligible voters turned out for the national Diet upper house by-election, the lowest rate of participation in a national-level election since Okinawa's 1972 reversion to Japan. The ruling coalition's young female candidate defeated the consolidated reformist [...] |
2007-04-25 08:50:00 | Consulate Naha | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV MARR JA |
| 07NAHA89 |
FIRST USN CIVILIAN PORT CALL IN OKINAWA A SUCCESS [...] (S) The mine countermeasures ships USS Guardian (MCM 5) and USS Patriot (MCM 7) conducted the first USN call on a civilian port in Okinawa Prefecture since Okinawa's 1972 reversion to Japan, successfully visiting Sonai Port on Yonaguni Island June 24-26. This port call to Japan's westernmost [...] |
2007-06-27 11:29:00 | Consulate Naha | SECRET | MARR PGOV PREL PINS JA |
| 07NAHA90 |
OKINAWAN GOVERNOR SUFFERS STROKE, 2 WEEKS CONVELESCENCE [...] (U) On June 25 Okinawa Prefectural Government (OPG) officials and the local media reported that Governor Hirokazu NAKAIMA suffered a mild stroke, and would convalesce for two weeks before returning to public responsibilities. According to the press, the stroke might have occurred as early as [...] |
2007-06-28 08:42:00 | Consulate Naha | CONFIDENTIAL | MARR PGOV PREL PINS JA |
| 07NAHA94 |
MEDIA PAPERS OVER OKINAWANS' DIFFERENCES ON MASS SUICIDES [...] (SBU) Summary: The Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology's (MOE) decision on March 30, 2007 to delete references to "military ordered" mass suicides from high school textbooks has met a strong reaction in Okinawa, where the large majority assumes the over 700 suicides t [...] |
2007-07-05 04:27:00 | Consulate Naha | UNCLASSIFIED | JA PREL PGOV MARR |
| 08NAHA132 |
POTENTIAL FORUM SHOPPING: OKINAWA GOVERNOR'S VISIT TO [...] (C) SUMMARY AND ACTION REQUEST: Okinawa's Prefectural Governor is planning to visit Washington D.C. between January 7-11 and again in May or June of 2009 to seek meetings with USG officials. He intends to ask for changes to bilaterally-agreed base realignment plans for Okinawa, the return of [...] |
2008-12-11 08:32:00 | Consulate Naha | CONFIDENTIAL | MARR MOPS PREL JA PINS PGOV |
| 08NAHA25 |
APPEASEMENT STRATEGY BEHIND REPUTED FRF ENVIRONMENTAL [...] (C) Summary: At the March 6 meeting of the Alliance Transformation Agreement Working Group for Okinawa, GOJ representatives raised the possibility that environmental procedures related to the landfill portions of the replacement facility for Marine Corps Air Station Futenma would be extended [...] |
2008-03-11 08:47:00 | Consulate Naha | CONFIDENTIAL | MARR MOPS PGOV PINS JA |
| 08NAHA29 |
MIXED FORECAST FOR AMERICAN DEFENDANTS: JAPAN'S PENDING [...] (SBU) Summary: In May 2009 Japanese citizens will begin sitting in judgment, alongside career judges, in trials of serious criminal cases. Japanese officials say that citizen participation in the criminal justice system brings Japan into line with other developed nations. There are, however [...] |
2008-04-09 10:21:00 | Consulate Naha | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | CASC MARR JA |
| 08NAHA43 |
CONSERVATIVES MAY LOSE MAJORITY IN OKINAWA PREFECTURAL [...] (C) Summary: Our local political contacts echo private media views that the balance of power in the Okinawa Prefectural Assembly (OPA) may shift from the conservatives to the opposition reformists in the upcoming June 8 election. Although most of the five parties who comprise the reformist gr [...] |
2008-06-03 05:44:00 | Consulate Naha | CONFIDENTIAL | MARR MOPS PGOV PINS JA |
| 08NAHA64 |
OKINAWA GOVERNOR'S VISIT TO WASHINGTON: POTENTIAL FORUM [...] (C) SUMMARY AND ACTION REQUEST: Okinawa's Prefectural Governor may be planning to visit Washington D.C. this fall to seek meetings with USG officials and to ask for changes to bilaterally-agreed base realignment plans for Okinawa and revisions to the U.S.-Japan SOFA. The USG position is to r [...] |
2008-08-05 10:14:00 | Consulate Naha | CONFIDENTIAL | MARR MOPS PGOV PINS JA |
| 08NAHA65 |
OKINAWA GOVERNOR'S VISIT TO WASHINGTON: POTENTIAL FORUM [...] (C) SUMMARY AND ACTION REQUEST: Okinawa's Prefectural Governor may be planning to visit Washington D.C. this fall to seek meetings with USG officials and to ask for changes to bilaterally-agreed base realignment plans for Okinawa and revisions to the U.S.-Japan SOFA. The USG position is to r [...] |
2008-08-08 02:37:00 | Consulate Naha | CONFIDENTIAL | MARR MOPS PGOV PINS JA |
| 08NAHA78 |
NAHA HOSTS SIA MILITARY PASSPORT COURIER TRAINING [...] (U) SUMMARY: ConGen Naha in coordination with State Department Special Issuance Agency (SIA) and Department of Defense hosted a Military Passport Agents' Training Conference on Camp Foster Marine Base August 19-20 in Okinawa, Japan. Over 40 military passport agents from military installations [...] |
2008-09-02 02:21:00 | Consulate Naha | UNCLASSIFIED | CASC CMGT CPAS JA |
| 08NAHA8 |
SOME INTEREST IN, BUT NO LOCAL DEMAND FOR, EXPANDED RETURN [...] No summary [...] |
2008-01-10 02:53:00 | Consulate Naha | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | MARR JA |
| 09NAHA63 |
POST-ELECTION MANEUVERING IN OKINAWA OVER FRF [...] (C) SUMMARY: Okinawa's newly elected Diet delegation, encouraged by the local media, is seeking to present a united front in calling for the new government to revise the 2006 agreement to relocate MCAS Futenma to Camp Schwab. While the local chapters of the Democratic Party of Japan (DPJ) [...] |
2009-09-09 02:05:00 | Consulate Naha | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV MARR MOPS JA |
| 09NAHA67 |
DPJ SENSES USG FLEXIBILITY ON FRF RENEGOTIATION [...] (C) Summary: The Hatoyama administration is working towards an early decision over implementation of the 2006 Futenma Replacement Facility (FRF) plan, but deep rifts remain between the Defense and Foreign Ministry leadership. Defense Minister Toshimi Kitazawa's September 25-26 visit to Okinawa [...] |
2009-10-05 09:30:00 | Consulate Naha | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV MARR MOPS JA |
| 09NAHA77 |
TOKYO'S INDECISION FUELS OKINAWAN RALLY [...] (C) SUMMARY: The November 8 rally to oppose the Futenma Relocation Facility (FRF) was directed as much at Tokyo's inability to take a clear policy position on Okinawa as it was on the merits of the realignment plan. Beyond the normal politics of Futenma relocation, the rally showcased growin [...] |
2009-11-12 10:29:00 | Consulate Naha | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV MARR MOPS JA |