On the US Military helicopter emergency landing at Kunigami, Okinawa Governor Tamaki states, “I wish they’d get to the bottom of the cause of these accidents.” (21jn22)


Splendor of Okinawa: Gardenia Jasminoides, roadside Uruma, 29my22


On 18 June, a US Marine CH53E transport helicopter made an emergency landing in a cow pasture at Ginoma in the village of Kunigami. Responding to the accident on the morning of 20 June to the media outlets at the Prefectural Office, Governor Denny Tamaki stated, “The first thought that comes to mind about the aircraft is how close it came to injury to the lives of people of our prefecture and damage to their property. It’s extremely frightening. I’d like to see them get to the bottom of the cause of this accident, especially whether they should be putting more effort into the timely maintenance of this type of aircraft.”


In addition, he expressed his intention of closely monitoring the response of the US Military and the Okinawa Defense Ministry Branch. Since last year accidents involving helicopters attached to the US Marines have been frequent and downplayed as “precautionary landings.” Governor Tamaki expressed his irritation with the problem, “Precautionary landings are getting rather frequent. We’re in peacetime! Why do they have to happen?”


The governor’s Base Policy Department intends to make its own response after receiving an answer clarifying the circumstances of the accident from the US side through the Okinawa Defense Ministry Branch.


In response to queries from the Ryukyu Shimpo, the Okinawa US Marines explained that the aircraft that emergency landed at Kunigami was attached to the First Marine Air Squadron and the cause of the landing was, “because a bit of smoke was noticed in the cockpit,” and such. The aircraft returned to the US Military Futenma Airfield sometime during 18 June.


Original Japanese article: Ryukyu Shimpo, published Monday 20 June 2022 at 10:29

https://news.yahoo.co.jp/articles/119939d77ba1d3281ce3d84ade206195184fdbb8


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. 

  2. Any suggestion on improving the translation will be gratefully accepted. However, please leave political comments for another forum.

  3. 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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