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		Harold and Margaret Rickard -- missionaries to Okinawa and Japan.
		Harold was appointed pastor at the Nago Church -- which met in the home of a war widow -- shortly after arriving in Okinawa.
		Meanwhile, Margaret trained church school teachers, taught children and youth in church school and in English classes, played the small reed organs for worship in the churches that did not have an organist, and of course cared for the Rickard home and children.
	goldenfirstumc.org /rickard/nagonaha.htm (257 words)

	Nago, Okinawa - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Nago (名護市; -shi) is a city located in Okinawa, Japan.
		As of 2003, the city has an estimated population of 57,551 and the density of 273.74 persons per km².
		In 1975, the World Exposition was held in Okinawa with a focus on the world's oceans.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Nago (139 words)

	Encyclopedia: Nago, Okinawa
		Okinawa Prefecture (Japanese 沖縄県; Okinawan Uchinā) is Japans southernmost prefecture, and consists of hundreds of islands known as The Ryūkyū Islands or Ryūkyūs, in an island chain over 1000 km long, which extends southwest from Kyūshū (the southwesternmost of Japans main four islands) to Taiwan, although the northern...
		Japan geography stubs Okinawa Prefecture (Japanese 沖縄県; Okinawan Uchinā) is Japans southernmost prefecture, and consists of hundreds of islands known as The Ryūkyū Islands or Ryūkyūs, in an island chain over 1000 km long, which extends southwest from Kyūshū (the southwesternmost of Japans main four islands) to Taiwan, although the northern...
		Okinawa (沖縄市; -shi) is a city located on the island of Okinawa Honto in Okinawa, Japan.
	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Nago,-Okinawa (500 words)

	The Okinawa Summit:A Japanese perspective (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		The people were elated that Okinawa had been chosen for the site of a most important international meeting, but they were also suspicious if this might be a gift in exchange for the perpetuation of American bases in Okinawa.
		Okinawa hears from all of their guests many words of thanks for the extraordinary welcome they received.
		Okinawa had played an important role in an international meeting that is expected to influence the course of events in the world.
	www.insightjapan.com /kunihiro.html (2213 words)

	Planet Ark (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		The new airport off Nago City, where the 2001 Group of Eight summit was held, would contain a Marine helicopter base that Washington agreed in 1996 to move from its Futenma air station in central Okinawa to Nago because of complaints of noise pollution.
		Nago residents, in a December 1997 referendum, opposed the relocation.
		Okinawa has less than one percent of Japan's total land mass but is home to 26,000 of the 48,000 U.S. military in the country, sparking local resentment that flared after the 1995 rape of a Japanese schoolgirl by three U.S. servicemen.
	www.planetark.org /avantgo/dailynewsstory.cfm?newsid=13860 (352 words)

	TOXIC WASTES-The View from Okinawa
		In Nago City itself, peace activists are organizing to oppose the construction of a new deep water naval base off Henoko Bay.
		Nago citizens rejected the offshore base and proposed sea heliport in a 1997 referendum, but plans move forward despite local opposition.
		Filipino delegates to the 2001 Japan Peace Conference held in Nago City, Okinawa were Alexander Lacson, legal counsel of the People’s Task Force for Bases Clean Up (PTFBC) for the toxic waste victims and Corazon V. Fabros, Chairperson of the PTFBC and Secretary General of the Nuclear Free Philippines Coalition (NFPC).
	www.yonip.com /main/PTFBC/viewfrokinawa.html (768 words)

	John Manning - News from Japan
		Okinawa Governor Inamine Keiichi and Nago Mayor Kishimoto Tateo initially promised that a "15-year term limit" will be a condition for accepting the base, but this promise was broken by the Japanese and U.S. governments when they agreed to the permanent U.S. use of the new base.
		Nago citizens as well as the rest of Okinawans continue to be forced to endure the heavy burden of U.S.military bases.
		According to the Okinawa Times, 88 percent of major companies engaging in tourism experienced a decline in sales last year, and many say U.S. bases are to blame.
	www.wirehub.nl /~spectr/global/japannews5.htm (771 words)

	JPRI Critique Vol. V No. 3
		Nago Citizens Act For a Heliport Referendum is replaced by a new organization, Nago Citizens Act Against the Heliport.
		The opinion of the people in Nago is now clear to everyone, except the mayor of Nago City, who recklessly tells the Japanese government that Nago will accept the construction of a heliport and then resigns as mayor.
		In the ten years after the return of Okinawa to Japan, the number of antiwar landlords was reduced to about 100, one thirtieth of the original number.
	www.jpri.org /publications/critiques/critique_V_3.html (1906 words)

	Welcome to Ken Matsuoka's Home Okinawa
		In Okinawa Prefecture on Friday, the Nago and Okinawa municipal assemblies adopted resolutions demanding SOFA be revised as unrest continued over the pace of bilateral talks on the transfer.
		Hailston was reacting to a resolution passed unanimously by the Okinawa Prefectural Assembly on Jan. 19 demanding a reduction in the number of U.S. Marines in the prefecture, after the alleged molestation of a 16-year-old girl by a U.S. Marine on Jan. 9.
		Mori was in Okinawa Prefecture for a one-day trip to attend a groundbreaking ceremony on the site of the main venue for the Group of Eight summit in July in the city of Nago, in the north of the island.
	members.aol.com /kenmazuoka/9909KenO.htm (11483 words)

	Japan Focus Article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Medoruma is a novelist and a vocal and piercing critic of Japanese neo-nationalism, local pork-barrel politics, and the US military presence in Okinawa, particularly the plan to build a new Marine Airbase off the coast of Henoko in Nago City, where he resides.
		In Okinawa, complaints and opposition to this decision are mounting.
		From the start of deliberations to its presentation, the schedule of this Okinawa Peace Prize was interlaced with the political agenda of the Japanese government, Governor Inamine of Okinawa, and Mayor Kishimoto of Nago city, all of whom support the relocation of military bases within Okinawa.
	www.japanfocus.org /article.asp?id=008 (1191 words)

	JPRI Critique Vol . VI No. 12
		In the run-up to the G-8 Summit Meeting to be held July 21-23, 2000, in Nago, Okinawa, JPRI intends to publish occasional articles bringing non-Japanese readers up-to-date on developments there.
		Nago, where the G-8 Summit will be held, is also home to Camp Schwab, which the U.S. military now plans to enlarge in the process of reducing its base at Futenma, as promised by President Clinton in April, 1996.
		Even Okinawa's becoming a dangerous place." When she saw the woman of about fifty who appeared on the screen, the waitress yelled out gleefully, "Hey, it's Fumi.
	www.jpri.org /publications/critiques/critique_VI_12.html (1882 words)

	[No title]
		In the Shoreijikan Association, Tomari-te from the Oyadomari family – Nakaema Seikichi (from Nago, Okinawa) has been preserved and recently it was founded the Zen Minami Hankyo Okinawa Tomarite Koukai to preserve the Nakaema-ha, and Sensei Fernando Câmara was appointed by the nephew of this master as the head of the organization.
		This Chinese martial art was introduced by Chinese merchants that settled down in Okinawa, by Chinese officials in diplomatic missions, and by the shizoku, youngs of wealthy families that went to China to improve their studies, culture, and also learn some martial arts, that in that times took part of education of noble class.
		The fall of the feudal structure of Okinawa and the unemployement of the chikundun Peichin class, leave these men to seek resources to their survival, and they become to teaching Tode or to work as body-guards.
	www.geocities.com /Colosseum/Bleachers/6758/s_pagina8.htm (2970 words)

	Okinawa council slams pervert US troops (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		NAGO, Okinawa—In protest against a recent molestation case by a U.S. serviceman, a municipal assembly on Monday passed a resolution demanding a reduction in the number of the U.S. Marine Corps stationed in Okinawa.
		The Nago Municipal Assembly anonymously approved the resolution following the arrest on Jan. 9 of a 21-year-old marine for taking a picture up the skirt of a 16-year-old high school girl on a street in northern Okinawa.
		In a similar development, the Okinawa Prefectural Assembly is also expected to pass a resolution on Jan. 19 demanding a cut in the U.S. Marine Corps forces to protest the latest molestation case.
	www.hartford-hwp.com /archives/55a/387.html (184 words)

	[No title] (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		The governments of Japan and Okinawa Prefecture were in the land reclamation camp, the City of Nago was in the landing wharf camp, and Henoko Village was in the pontoon camp.
		Okinawa's Governor Inamine Keiichi, supported by business interests in the prefecture, had initially sided with the land reclamation camp because construction contracts would go to companies in Okinawa.
		And now the majority of contractors in Nago who had felt "morally obligated" to the companies in the pontoon camp that had courted them, also switched sides to the landing wharf camp, and began backing the proposed compromise with the land reclamation camp.
	www.japanfocus.org /011.html (2802 words)

	'No' to new military base in Okinawa - 10/2/01 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		One of the main actions of the campaign is a "Peace Caravan" (a peace march) starting from Nago City on March 10, traveling many cities covering all prefectures of Japan, reaching Tokyo on April 28.
		An offshore area of Nago City of Okinawa is habitats of precious species and treasures of living things including Dugong, internationally protected sea mammal.
		This plan is consistent with a policy of the U.S. to secure Okinawa as a stable foothold for military interference and intervention into the Asia-Pacific region well into the 21st century and after.
	cndyorks.gn.apc.org /caab/articles/okinawa.htm (499 words)

	JPRI Working Paper No. 65
		In Okinawa, the only place in Japan where Japanese and United States ground forces fought each other, such dialogues are further complicated by the uninterrupted American military presence since the end of World War II and by the many territorial, legal, and moral issues that come with the U.S. bases.
		The original Okinawa Prefectural Peace Memorial Museum was established in 1975 at Mabuni, to "mourn for the victims of the war, to convey correctly the historical teachings of the Battle of Okinawa to the next generation, and to contribute to the establishment of everlasting peace," in the words of the official guidebook (1991 ed.).
		In Okinawa itself, the new governor's pre-election promises of "no offshore heliport" and a "fifteen-year lease limit" for any new joint-use civilian/military airport, without which he could not have been elected, seemed to ensure that his positions would not fit easily into the agendas of the Japanese and American governments.
	www.jpri.org /publications/workingpapers/wp65.html (3606 words)

	Okinawa Trip Report (April 12-16, 2002)
		The most convenient route to take is the Okinawa Expressway which is a toll highway.
		Once we passed Nago all the roads were paved and bordered with cherry trees.
		After viewing our family tomb which was very close to the beach, we stopped at the ruins of Nakijin Castle which ruled the northern part of Okinawa before the 15th century.
	www.geocities.com /kiyuna33/oki/mainpage.html (2330 words)

	Stars & Stripes (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		NAGO — Voters overwhelmingly re-elected Mayor Tateo Kishimoto in an election seen as a vote for a new base in northern Okinawa.
		Okinawa Gov. Keiichi Inamine, who was waiting for the final vote count at Kishimoto’s campaign office with other supporters, was pleased.
		Inamine was instrumental in choosing Nago for the site of the new base, getting a promise from the government in Tokyo of a $95 million economic stimulus package if the city accepted the airport.
	www.estripes.com /article.asp?section=104&article=6240&archive=true (710 words)

	Runners hit the pavement in Okinawa Marathon (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		The male winner of the Okinawa Marathon was 37-year-old Koji Koyanagi from Nagasaki, Japan, who finished the 26.4-mile run in an astonishing 2 hours, 27 minutes.
		Participants of the Okinawa Marathon must be 16-years-old and in good health, can either choose to run a full, 26.4-mile marathon or run a 6.25-mile road race, a quarter of the length of the marathon.
		The marathon, which is directed by 12 different cities, towns and villages in central Okinawa, has been held for the past 13 years, explained Chika Harris, an employee with the Okinawa Marathon Executive Committee.
	www.dcmilitary.com /marines/hendersonhall/10_10/features/33730-1.html (685 words)

	Masssive New US Base in Henoko Bay, Nago City, Okinawa a Link In Global Domination Plan (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Nago City residents voted against the proposed base in a citizens' referendum.
		Okinawans are outraged that the government has used the crash to impose the new base, pointing out that residents of Nago and especially several coastal villages live directly in the flight paths of the proposed air base.
		Even after ending its 27-year postwar occupation of Okinawa in 1972, the US continues to take advantage of the systematic discrimination of the Okinawans by the Japanese government, institutionalized via Japan's formal colonization of the Ryukyu Kingdom in 1879.
	nuclearfree.lynx.co.nz /henokobay.htm (1922 words)

	The Japan Times Online (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Proponents for keeping the marines in Okinawa have stressed the strategic Asia-Pacific importance of the prefecture for the U.S. military, even should some elements be needed for the Middle East.
		Okinawa marines "are primarily reinforcements for South Korea," he reckoned, adding that if the U.S. was willing to partially pull some of its forces out of South Korea, then there should be no reason to keep troops in Okinawa as well.
		A number of marine officers who had been stationed in Okinawa have complained about limits placed on their exercises -- including curtailments in live-fire drills and flight training, in consideration of people who live near military installations, and the dispersed nature of military units and the relatively small drill areas.
	www.japantimes.co.jp /cgi-bin/getarticle.pl5?nn20050219f1.htm (1422 words)

	Stars & Stripes
		NAGO, Okinawa — Mother Nature once again had the last laugh: Not even half of the 20,000 cherry trees here bloomed in time for the largest festival on the island celebrating their annual blossoming.
		The blooms of the Okinawa Hikansakura cherry trees are heartier than the trees on mainland Japan.
		Okinawa’s blossoms also are a darker pink and smaller than their whitish-pink mainland counterparts.
	www.estripes.com /article.asp?section=104&article=26907 (468 words)

	Service members paddle into heart of community - JapanUpdate.com - Okinawa News, Classifieds, Events, Culture, Forums, ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		OKINAWA CITY, OKINAWA, Japan — About a dozen Marines and sailors from Marine Corps Air Station Futenma, and some of their families, volunteered to spend time with the Okinawan children at the Jidou Community Center here July 24.
		Okinawa’s long, hot summer continues and with it numerous colorful festivals being conducted across the island.
		An Okinawa woman returning from a family vacation to the United States is believed to be the first West Nile Fever victim in Japan.
	www.japanupdate.com /en?id=5872 (1232 words)

	Nago Government opens homepage - JapanUpdate.com - Okinawa News, Classifieds, Events, Culture, Forums, and more! (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Nago City officially announced the opening of their homepage, NAGO CITY to the public, Thursday.
		At the ceremony announcing the opening of the homepage of Nago City, the mayor, Tateo Kishimoto, commented that the city officials are planning to add Spanish and Portuguese versions of the homepage in order to increase the number of people who can see and understand the information.
		Okinawa Soba is probably the best known of local specialty foods, and the most familiar in Okinawa.
	www.japanupdate.com /en?id=5098 (1324 words)

	Sign on to Letter about Okinawa (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		The people of Nago in Okinawa gave this effort a rebuff in a referendum of December 21, 1997, when 53% rejected the Pentagon's plans to build a new off-shore helicopter port near their town.
		Following the referendum Nago's Mayor, who favored the base, resigned, opening the way to the possible victory of a pro-base Mayor in an election that is to take place February 8.
		The U.S. military presence is pervasive in Okinawa, the smallest and poorest of the Japanese prefectures.
	www.zmag.org /Bulletins/poki1.htm (882 words)

	Compare Prices and Read Reviews on NEO Park, Okinawa at Epinions.com
		I watched the commercials on the local information channel in Okinawa and decided that was the place to go for this particular weekend.
		My first thought was to use the expressway on the way down but we have always enjoyed the drive on Highway 58 despite the extra time it takes.
		Usually there are numerous signs in Okinawa that point you along the right way but not this one.
	www.epinions.com /content_132400451204 (1308 words)

	[No title] (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		It is doubtful if the Government really intends to negotiate with the United States about Okinawa and Nago City's proposal to place a 15-year time limit on the use of the Futenma alternative facility.
		Prime Minister Obuchi, who once took part in the movement to return Okinawa to Japan, trumpeted throughout his tour that Okinawa was his second hometown in an attempt to underline his special sentiments toward Okinawa.
		Behind this implication is his judgment that it is unwise to dissolve the Lower House at an early time, for instance, before the Summit, considering the mounting criticism of his administration in the wake of the police-caused scandals and the like.
	www.usc.edu /isd/archives/dsjp/summaries/2000/March/Sm000328.doc (3610 words)

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