On the first weekend of the Okinawa Prefecture Gubernatorial Election campaign, candidates Shimoji, Sakima, and Tamaki make the rounds of street corners to appeal their key policies to the voters. (28au22)


Splendor of Okinawa: Lagerstroemia speciosa, roadside Uruma, 18au22


The Gubernatorial Election, with ballots to be opened on 11 September, has taken on the aspect of a dogfight of three, as 27 September welcomes the first weekend since the campaign was proclaimed.


The three candidates are contenders former House of Councillors Member Mikio Shimoji (61) and former Ginowan Mayor Atsushi Sakima (58, backed by the Liberal Democratic Party and Komeito) squared off against incumbent Governor Denny Tamaki (62, supported by the force of All Okinawa). All 3 are out making the rounds of street corners to appeal their key policies to the voters.


Candidate Shimoji made impromptu speeches centered in the southern part of Okinawa Island. He made his appeal on his solution to the Henoko problem and governmental issues he has raised as his pillars, such as free child education. At a street corner in the Yaesu District, he swore, “I’ll have no administration, unless it produces results.” In the afternoon, he gathered his supporters to talk over campaign strategy and policy.

　

In the morning, Candidate Sakima campaigned in OkinawaCity. His appeal was that he would institute child zones with free school meals and free preschool. In the afternoon, he exchanged ideas with the city’s people in the First Street Shopping Mall. Finally at a general mass action rally in Itoman, he made a plea for his economic policies and an end to the base problem. He strongly ended with, “Our young people will create an Okinawa that can stand up to challenges.”


In the morning, Governor Tamaki visited Kume Island to tout his promotion of Okinawa’s outer islands. In the afternoon, he participated in a mass rally, on Okinawa Island, of the groups supporting his candidacy. After giving campaign speeches in Uruma and Okinawa City, he held a general mass action rally in Itoman. There he claimed he will extend assistance to child education and youth. The governor pledged, “We will create an Okinawa with the hope of sustaining our health and livelihoods.


Original Japanese article: Okinawa Times, published Sunday 28 August 2022 at 08:18. Byline: Gubernatorial Election Coverage Squad

https://news.yahoo.co.jp/articles/9c73caf46352f31bd721e3ea14c26457b0cfcb3e


Denny in the News: news about 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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