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	Okinawa Prefecture - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Okinawa's capital, Naha, is located in the southern part of the largest and most populous island, Okinawa Honto, which is approximately half-way between Kyūshū and Taiwan.
		Okinawa's location in the East China Sea, and relatively close proximity to Japan, Korea, China and South East Asia allowed the Ryūkyū Kingdom to become a prosperous trading nation.
		Okinawa is a major producer of sugar cane, pineapples, papayas and other tropical fruits.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Okinawa (882 words)

	Hawaii Okinawa
		Ginowan Shijinkai (formerly Ginowan-Urasoe Doshikai and Ginowan Sonjinkai)
		During the 1920s, Ginowan families from the neighbor islands and the rural areas of Oahu began to move to Honolulu, resulting in a population large enough for a separate Ginowan club.
		When Ginowan- son, Okinawa, was redesignated as a shi in the latter part of the 1970s, the club changed its name to Ginowan-Shijinkai.
	www.hawaiiokinawa.com /clubs2.html (9288 words)

	Friday, June 15, 2001
		GINOWAN, Okinawa — Marines on Okinawa are investigating an incident in which two military bags fell from a U.S. helicopter Wednesday and landed near an Okinawan home near Futenma Marine Corps Air Base.
		Ginowan police recovered the bags and their contents about 10 feet from the home of Sadako Tamaki, 68, in a yard between her house and a cemetery about 110 yards from the air station.
		In 1999, Okinawa Gov. Keiichi Inamine approved the selection of a site for a new air station in the Henoko District of Nago, in northeast Okinawa, but the plans have been hampered by disputes over the construction method and Okinawa’s demand the military’s use of the airport be limited to 15 years.
	www.stripes.com /01/jun01/ed061501g.html (501 words)

	Struggle against U.S. military presence in Okinawa
		Citizens groups and labor unions held a rally in Ginowan, Okinawa Prefecture, Saturday in protest at a plan to relocate the U.S. Marine Corps.' Futenma Air Station and a military port in Naha within the prefecture.
		Some 4,000 residents of Okinawa gathered Wednesday at a park in Naha to demand the U.S. Marines Corps presence be scaled down in the prefecture in the wake of a number of crimes committed by service personnel.
		The governor of Okinawa, Keiichi Inamine, presented war criminal Rumsfeld with a petition of grievances regarding the oppressive behavior of the U.S. military.
	www.hartford-hwp.com /archives/55a/index-mba.html (291 words)

	宜野湾市ﾎｰﾑﾍﾟｰｼﾞ：EnglishVersion (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-06)
		Ginowan City advances maintenance as an international convention city.
		It is noticed in prefecture and abroad as a place of international and domestic communication and dispatch of new Okinawan culture through conferences, meetings, exhibitions, sports, and music and theatrical activities.
		It is the first full-scale open-air theater in Okinawa It holds five thousands people and be in use for rock concerts and outdoor events.
	www.city.ginowan.okinawa.jp /home.nsf/doc2/EnglishVersion (159 words)

	Information on the 1995 Rape Incident and the Protests that Followed
		Hundreds of women took to the streets of Naha, capital of Okinawa, Japan, Friday, September 22, 1995 to protest the alleged rape of a 12-year-old girl by three U.S. servicemen.
		Ginowan, Okinawa - Chanting "Yankee, go home," a refrain rarely heard in Japan, thousands of Okinawans took to the streets Tuesday to protest the alleged rape of a 12-year-old girl that three U.S. servicemen are suspected of committing.
		Ginowan, Okinawa - On the eve of U.S.-Japan defense talks, thousands of Okinawans took to the streets Tuesday to protest the rape of a 12-year-old schoolgirl allegedly committed by three American servicemen.
	www.uchinanchu.org /history/1995_rape_incident.htm (621 words)

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		The US installations in Okinawa cover about 20% of the main island. Futenma Air Station, the home for the First Air Group of the Third Marine Corps Expeditionary Force (USA), is located in the heart of Ginowan City, which is an urban area at the center of Okinawa.
		These economic challenges that Okinawa will face immediately after the closure of Futenma are: the economic dependency of the land owners on the base income, the municipal revenue from the base-related subsidies, and job creation issues for the military employees.
		Okinawa has been struggling to make its voice heard and get back to their peaceful life before the military bases, yet the political will of the two big countries is more powerful than the wishes of the local people.
	www.basereuse.org /research/Futenma.doc (3478 words)

	Ginowan, Okinawa - TheBestLinks.com - Japan, July 1, Population, 1962, ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-06)
		Ginowan, Okinawa - TheBestLinks.com - Japan, July 1, Population, 1962,...
		Ginowan, Okinawa, Japan, July 1, Population, 1962, 2003, Square kilometer...
		As of 2003, the city has an estimated population of 88,318 and the density of 4,526.81 persons per kmandsup2.
	www.thebestlinks.com /Ginowan__2C___Okinawa.html (105 words)

	Okinawa residents square off against military in helicopters dispute - JapanUpdate.com - Okinawa News, Classifieds, ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-06)
		Relationships between the American military forces on Okinawa and its residents, already strained by a variety of issues surrounding base openings, closings and moves, are becoming more tense as protests mount over the August 13th crash of a Marine Corps helicopter.
		An Okinawa woman was assaulted early Sunday morning in the bedroom of her resident in central Okinawa.
		An angry Okinawa governor, Keiichi Inamine, says the military isn’t listening to his appeals for calm, and the grounding of all flights until a firm cause of this month’s helicopter crash is determined.
	www.japanupdate.com /en?id=5891 (959 words)

	[No title] (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-06)
		The mayor of the town of Ginowan, where the helicopter crashed, lodged a protest directly with local U.S. military officials.
		Ginowan’s mayor has so far issued six statements since the crash, urging the U.S. military not to resume helicopter flights from Futenma base, said the spokesman, who is not related to the mayor.
		Okinawa, which hosts a large portion of the 50,000 U.S. military personnel in Japan under a security treaty, lies about 1,600 kilometers (1,000 miles) southwest of Tokyo.
	www.marinecorpstimes.com /print.php?f=1-292925-316780.php (471 words)

	General Consular Information
		U.S. fatalities due to typhoons on Okinawa are very rare, and usually occur as a result of highly inadvisable activity on the part of the victim, such as swimming or surfing during typhoon conditions.
		The Habu is an indigenous, venomous snake on Okinawa.
		Mosquitoes are common during Okinawa's hot and humid summer.
	usembassy.state.gov /naha/wwwh1500.html (852 words)

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		GINOWAN, Okinawa — Six CH-53D Sea Stallion heavy-lift helicopters left Marine Corps Air Station Futenma on Sunday for duty with the Okinawa-based 31st Marine Expeditionary Unit in Iraq.
		The three Hawaii-based crew members, on Okinawa as part of a six-month Unit Deployment Program, survived the crash but all flight activity at the base, which is next to the school, was suspended pending safety inspections.
		Okinawa officials’ reaction to the flight of the Sea Stallions was swift.
	www.military.com /NewContent/0,13190,SS_082304_Futenma,00.html (1090 words)

	Virtual Okinawa - Guestbook (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-06)
		My family lived on Okinawa from 1946-1953 and from 1955-1965.I had the wonderful luck to attend Kubasaki when we went to school in the old quanset huts and all the school buses were made in Japan (out of old beer cans).
		I was born in Okinawa at Camp Kue in 1974.
		Was stationed on Okinawa (USAF) from 1947-1949, assigned to the 623rd AC&W Sqdn on Yomitan Mountain.
	www.virtualokinawa.com /guestbook/archive/sept99.html (6696 words)

	AsiaFinest Discussion Forum -> U.S. copter crashes on campus; local ire raised (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-06)
		The CH-53 helicopter crashed at Okinawa International University, in the city of Ginowan, according to Okinawa Prefectural Police.
		The planned relocation facility, a military-civil airport to be built off the northern Okinawa city of Nago, has yet to be built due to local opposition.
		Okinawa International University issued a statement in the name of President Tomoaki Toguchi criticizing the accident.
	www.asiafinest.com /forum/index.php?showtopic=15158 (603 words)

	Futenma Marine Corps Air Station
		Located in the midst of Futenma city, Futenma Air Base is said to symbolize Okinawa's base-related issues such as the dangers of aircraft noise pollution and crashes.
		MCAS Futenma has a runway and parallel taxiway that are 9,000 feet long as well as an aircraft washrack, maintenance facilities, vehicle maintenance facilities, fuel storage facilities, a hazardous waste storage and transfer facility, a control tower, an armory, and other facilities needed to operate a Marine Corps air station.
		If the Marine Corps presence is to be maintained with air and ground combat units and logistical support collocated on Okinawa, then MCAS Futenma or a suitable replacement is required to maintain the operational capability of the III Marine Expeditionary Force's air combat element.
	www.globalsecurity.org /military/facility/futenma.htm (732 words)

	[No title] (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-06)
		Yet as the Okinawa Times pointed out, this is merely the escalation of a conflict that for the local population began at least 2,639 days previously (19 May 2004).
		The contradiction is perhaps manifested at its most farcical in the so-called 'fifteen-year limit issue.' Okinawa Prefectural Governor Inamine Keiichi first announced his commitment to a 'fifteen-year limit' on US military use of any new facilities constructed in replace of Futenma in his race against then incumbent Ota Masahide in the gubernatorial elections of 1998.
		In a narrative not unlike that of the 'emperor's clothes,' the absurdity of even attempting to negotiate a fifteen-year limit of use on a massive runway that is going to take at least sixteen years and hundreds of billions of yen to build is blatant, yet left unmentioned.
	www.japanfocus.org /123.html (1631 words)

	Navy man charged in Ginowan hit and run - JapanUpdate.com - Okinawa News, Classifieds, Events, Culture, Forums, and ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-06)
		The Beach Tower of Okinawa Hotel is in Chatan, situated in Mihama near Sunset Beach.
		A group of Okinawa children are publishing a newspaper of their own.
		An Okinawa City taxi driver is no longer driving his cab after being arrested and charged with stealing a customer’s money.
	www.japanupdate.com /en/?id=5825 (772 words)

	Marines, local police officers train together (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-06)
		GINOWAN CITY, OKINAWA, Japan - Shinya Kinjo (left) and 1st Lt. Tim A. Martin (right) go down to the ground during a Judo session at the Ginowan City Police Station Sept. 7.
		Kinjo is a Ginowan City police officer and Martin is the officer in charge of the Crime Prevention Unit at Camp Foster's Provost Marshal's Office.
		Carter said he was impressed with the amount of skill that Uezu and the entire Ginowan PD possessed and he hopes to start training with the Ginowan Police Department on a regular basis.
	dcmilitary.com /marines/hendersonhall/10_38/national_news/37275-1.html (557 words)

	ACCOkinawa (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-06)
		The AmCham Okinawa, which is affiliated with the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, asserts the U.S. business point of view in Okinawa by representing our members before the governments, business communities, and general public of Okinawa and Japan.
		AmCham Okinawa represents members' views on policy and regulatory matters to both U.S. and Japanese government and interprets the point of view of other countries to the American business public.
		While American businessmen started their operations on Okinawa in 1945, it was not until 1953 that the American Chamber of Commerce in Okinawa was organized.
	www.accokinawa.org (326 words)

	Okinawa (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-06)
		On the south shore of Okinawa, 30 m under the sea level, ruins of buildings were discovered that are around 10.000 years old.
		OKINAWA IS NOT PART OF JAPAN - Nobumasa Sato explains why Okinawa is not part of Japan and should be again independent country.
		OKINAWA CENTENARIAN STUDY - Okinawa is also known as the land of centenarians.
	titan.fov.uni-mb.si /shohei/english/okinawa.htm (455 words)

	Stars & Stripes
		According to an Okinawa police spokesman in Ginowan, witnesses said they heard three or four explosions when the helicopter went down at the base of the school’s administration building, about 10 feet from a busy road.
		Okinawa police say about 25 people were in the building at the time.
		She had been at the nearby city office getting a briefing from the mayor of Ginowan concerning his recent trip to the United States to lobby for the closure of the air station within five years.
	www.estripes.com /article.asp?section=104&article=23809 (1334 words)

	Ginowan elementary students now studying English in class - JapanUpdate.com - Okinawa News, Classifieds, Events, ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-06)
		A bold move by Ginowan public schools is putting English words in the mouths of elementary school children.
		Ginowan jumped in, and authorized hiring American teachers from the United States to teach at Futenma Elementary School and Shimashi Elementary School.
		Ginowan officials say that within two years, every one of its elementary schools will have English teachers on site.
	www.japanupdate.com /en/?id=5659 (663 words)

	Sunday, February 18, 2001
		GINOWAN — Okinawa officials want a change in the Status of Forces Agreement between the United States and Japan that would make the States more responsible for environmental damage caused by military bases.
		In his keynote address to an environmental conference on Okinawa last week, Gov. Keiichi Inamine said there are no provisions in the SOFA that require the United States to ensure aircraft noise, soil erosion and oil spills on U.S. bases on Okinawa do not threaten the environment.
		Kazuhisa Ogawa, director of the Crisis Management Institute in Tokyo and an adviser for the Okinawa Development Agency, said the fault is partly Japan's reluctance to take on an active role in the partnership.
	www.stripes.com /01/feb01/ed021801e.html (323 words)

	Ginowan still wants use of military parking lot - JapanUpdate.com - Okinawa News, Classifieds, Events, Culture, Forums, ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-06)
		The area close to the Ginowan City office was closed to the public last weekend, triggering cries of harassment by irate citizens whose free parking has been denied them.
		Ginowan officials told the media they were told by the military that “there was an instruction from a higher level.” Usually, the military closes the parking area during typhoons.
		Okinawa residents square off against military in helicopters dispute
	www.japanupdate.com /en?id=5895 (807 words)

	Japan Policy & Politics: 2ND LD: Ginowan assembly OKs statement seeking return of U.S. base site
		The city assembly of Ginowan, Okinawa Prefecture, unanimously approved Tuesday a statement seeking the quick return to Japan of the site used for a U.S. Marine Corps air station following Friday's helicopter crash on a university campus nearby.
		Labor union activists are planning to hold a prefecture-wide rally to call for an early return of the land used by the air base.
		Okinawa Gov. Keiichi Inamine plans to meet with Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi to make a request for the return of the air base site.
	www.findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_m0XPQ/is_2004_August_23/ai_n6270124 (405 words)

	Okinawa(1174) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-06)
		JAPAN Komura Yoshimi Nakagami county Okinawa pref, JAPAN Koshima Tsukie Tomigusuku village Okinawa pref.
		Okinawa pref., JAPAN Nakamura Yutaka Naha city OKINAWA pref, JAPAN Nakandakari Mirian Naha city Okinawa pref.
		JAPAN Ogidou yumeji Okinawa city Okinawa pref, JAPAN Ohki Hironori Ginowan, Okinawa, JAPAN Ohwaki Yoshinari Ishigaki city, Okinawa pref., JAPAN Okamoto Masahiro Ishigaki city, Okinawa pref., JAPAN Okamura Masayuki Motobu town Okinawa pref, JAPAN Okamura Naoko Motobu town Okinawa pref, JAPAN Okinawa Sachiyo Okinawa city Okinawa pref, JAPAN Okuda Takeshi Taketomi town Okinawa pref.
	www.walrus.com /~dawei/petitions/japan-okinawa.html (2358 words)

	Keyword (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-06)
		Okinawa Gov. Keiichi Inamine criticized the military and Tokyo government, which gave its consent to the training at Range 4, located about 328 yards from the Igei community of Kin.
		Okinawa governor Keiichi Inamine says he is “making a drastic new proposal” to the U.S. and Japanese governments as the two nations are reworking the details of their alliance.
		Okinawa is host to roughly 75 percent of U.S. military forces in Japan, and is the site of increasing tensions over the U.S. presence.
	www.freerepublic.com /focus/keyword?k=okinawa (5548 words)

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