According to report of sponsors, ‘Peace through Dialogue’ prefectural people’s mass rally against military buildup in Okinawa draws in excess of 10 thousand in Naha. (24no23)

Splendor of Okinawa: Tree Marigold, roadside Uruma, 19no23


According to the sponsors’ announcement, over 10 thousand participated in the ‘23 November Prefectural People’s Mass Rally’, held on 23 November at Onoyama Park’s Athletic Ground in Naha to promulgate the creation of peace through dialogue to the world, in opposition to the military build up in Okinawa by the Japanese and US Governments.


The participants assembled to request that Okinawa never again have to deal with either the victims of war or their assailants. They adopted their resolution, “In unity with our whole Nation and the whole world, we proclaim, outside and inside Japan our commitment to end war!”


In the wake of the Cabinet decision on the 3 Security Documents in 2022, the Government acted to reinforce the Self Defense Force in the Ryukyu Islands. Suddenly engulfed in a sense of peril,  prefectural residents countered by organizing the ‘Prefectural People’s Committee to Never Again Allow Okinawa to Become a Battleground!’


This was the first time for that committee to stage a mass rally at such a huge scale as ten thousand participants.


Okinawa Governor Denny Tamaki pleaded, “It’s not right for our children’s future to be a future of war. Let’s have our voices raised right now to act in unison with our whole Nation, our whole world, for the commitment to peace we’re demanding!”


The joint representative of the sponsors, Chobin Zukeran, urged, “Let’s make our hearts as one in order to create peace. We will never ever surrender!”　


The rally opened with a concert at the forefront. Then, after the rally, participants from inside and outside the Nation gathered to hold another rally at the Prefectural People’s Theater at Pallette in Naha.


At various places around the Nation, rallies were held in coordination with the Naha rally during the same time period.


Sponsors announced that 120 participated at Shin’ei Park in Ishigaki City for the Residents’ Mass Rally’, sponsored by the ‘City Residents’ Committee to Never Again Let our Island Become a Battleground’.


Original Japanese article: Ryukyu Shimpo, published Friday 24 November 2023 at 11:56. Byline Yugo Okita.   https://news.yahoo.co.jp/articles/e4da7a8591a3e7e3e78096d628d4c079c728b6ac


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. 


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 my translation will be gratefully accepted. However, please leave political comments for another forum.


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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