Chief Cabinet Secretary Hirokazu Matsuno today (3 Dec.) visits the prefecture for discussions with the mayor of Naha; talks over the relocation of Naha Military Port expected. (5de22)


Splendor of Okinawa: Great Bougainvillea, roadside Uruma, 4no22


(TOKYO) Chief Cabinet Secretary Hirokazu Matsuno, Cabinet minister in charge of lessening the burden of Okinawa’s bases, will visit the prefecture for 2 days, from 3-4 December. He will hold discussions with Naha Mayor Satoru Chinen and Ginowan Mayor Masanori Matsugawa, each in their respective city halls.


According to the Cabinet Office, Secretary Matsuno will first meet Mayor Chinen, newly elected in the October Naha mayoral election. They are expected to discuss aircraft take-offs and landings at the US Military Naha Port and Bay Facility (Naha Military Port), its relocation to Urasoe, and such. 


Curiously, when Secretary Matsuno visited the prefecture in November of last year, he held discussions with Governor Denny Tamaki, but this time there is no meeting scheduled with  Governor Tamaki.


The National Government and the Prefecture held a meeting on cooperation in the relocation of Naha Military Port to Urasoe with the cities of Naha and Urasoe in October. They confirmed advancing discussions on the basis of the location and design for the alternate facility proposed by the Defense Ministry. However, the understandings of the National Government and the Prefecture were at odds over whether aircraft take-offs and landings would be accepted among the functions of the relocated Military Port.


After taking office, Mayor Chinen claimed he would consider from a blank slate whether or not to accept aircraft take-offs and landings. His opinion has become a shared point of view.


In his September mayoral election campaign, Ginowan Mayor Matsugawa was reelected on his clear stance of accepting the relocation of Futenma Airfield to Henoko in Nago.


Original Japanese article: Ryukyu Shimpo, published Saturday 3 December 2022 at 10:54. Byline: Manato Akira.

https://news.yahoo.co.jp/articles/07a72ec404275254c8ba1056ed5f53c530003e89


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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