The Prefectural Assembly requests Governor Tamaki to attend a Special Fiscal Committee meeting, the first such request in 7 years since Governor Nakaima, to answer questions about the staff in the US. (20oc21)

The Okinawa Prefectural Assembly’s Special Fiscal Committee (chaired by Noriyuki Oshiro) passed a motion with a majority to request Governor Denny Tamaki’s attendance for summary questions on 19 and 20 October.  As the vote was a tie, the committee chair cast the deciding vote. The Fiscal Special Committee had not requested a prefectural governor’s attendance for summary questions  since 7 years ago in 2014 when Hirokazu Nakaima was governor. 


The questions requiring deliberation were 7 items that arose from each standing committee in the process of deliberations around the 2020 general accounts settlement proposal. The Project for Promotion of Natural History Museum Attractions, requested by the Civil Engineering Environmental Committee, received  special support for inclusion in the 2022 budget with unanimous consent. It will be added as a supplemental resolution after passage of the 2020 General Accounts Settlement Proposal.


The 7 items needing deliberation to be brought up for summary questions are: 

1 item requested by the General Affairs Planning Committee on the evaluation of the prefecture’s people stationed in Washington, DC

2 items by the Economic Labor Committee around the direction of the Bridge of Nations Bell Conference 

4 items by the Civil Engineering Committee on the response to the new base construction at Henoko.


At the opening of each standing committee on 12 and 13 October, voices arose to request the attendance of the governor, since the opposition party found the explanations of the executive branch insufficient. But the ruling party members were against his attendance, complaining, “We’ve had the explanation in the answers of the department heads.”


The Special Fiscal Committee is made up of 17 members: 8 from the ruling party, 8 from the opposition, and the chair, who is neutral. In last year’s June prefectural elections, the opposition LDP gained three legislative seats more than before the election. So, the ruling party’s power is tenuous. If a proposal had been made for a motion for Governor Tamaki’s attendance in the same October Special Fiscal Committee last year, there would have been a high probability of passage, but  LDP legislators  put it off in view of the Covid-19 contagion clusters.


Original Japanese article: Ryukyu Shimpo, published Wednesday 20 October 2021 at 10:54

https://news.yahoo.co.jp/articles/307a0362530ca607f2f0be27b876907ef63e82cc


Translator’s note:

Denny in the News: news about Okinawan Governor Denny Tamaki.

Denny Tamaki is the governor of Okinawa Prefecture in Japan. Although Okinawa is important as an international tourist destination and a key element in strategic US Military Forces, its governor receives very little coverage in the Japanese press and almost none in the English language media. 

  1. This blog hopes to  translate one news article a day on the governor.  It is unsponsored and unauthorized. The translator simply hopes to improve his skills and perhaps give the governor an English speaking audience. Any suggestion on improving the translation will be gratefully accepted. However, please leave political comments for another forum.

  2. Where they occur, words and phrases in Ryukyuan (the Okinawan language) are rendered in italics and translated in parentheses. Names  whose readings are uncertain are rendered as Name (=Kanji?) as in Nagayuki (=長行?). Any corrections in such instances would be gratefully appreciated.

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