Sub lurking near Okinawa identified, but Onodera mum
Source: Japan Times
Okinawa :: Japan | updated 2013-05-19 22:11:34 -0700 | political-news
Defense Minister Itsunori Onodera said Monday the government has identified the country whose submarine was detected while submerged the previous day near Okinawa and will call for such encroachments to cease. Onodera did not disclose the country, saying the vessel...
Politics › Chinese general says Ryukyu islands do not belong to Japan
Source: Japan Today
Okinawa :: Japan | updated 2013-05-16 14:49:14 -0700 | travel-news
A senior Chinese military officer has said the Ryukyu Islandswhich include Okinawa and its U.S. military basesdo not belong to Japan, as a territorial row mounts between the Asian powers. The comments by People's Liberation Army Major General Luo Yuan...
Chinese premier provider of Japanese sovereignty over Okinawa
Posted by: KhanhElegant
Okinawa :: Japan | updated 2013-05-18 09:51:15 -0700 | political-news
A senior commander of the Chinese troops that the Ryukyu Islands, which consists of the island of Okinawa and the U.S. military, "does not belong to Japan", based on the historical evidence. According to AFP, the spokesman Gen. Luo Yuan...
China questions Japan rule over Okinawa
Source: Fox News
Okinawa :: Japan | updated 2013-05-15 01:26:24 -0700 | political-news
China is trying to strengthen its claim on tiny, uninhabited, Japanese-controlled islands by raising questions about the much larger Okinawa chain that is home to more than a million Japanese along with major U.S. military installations. The tactic, however, appears...
Eating Out: Lemoore sandwich shop gets 'Gunny' going
Source: The Fresno Bee
Okinawa :: Japan | updated 2013-05-14 12:59:03 -0700 | entertainment-news
tool goes here The owner of the new Gunny's Sandwich Shop in Lemoore doesn't like to call his place a restaurant. "We're just a sandwich shop," he says. "We're a little hole in the wall." It's a hole in the...
Kids love park life in the summer
Source: Japan Times
Okinawa :: Japan | updated 2013-05-14 09:45:01 -0700 | allnews
At long last, warm weather has arrived, which means more playtime in Tokyo's parks from your scrappy, local patch of dirt to the manicured opulence of Shinjuku Gyoen National Garden...While not the most pristine public space Japan has to offer,...
Kids love park life in the summer
Source: Japan Times
Okinawa :: Japan | updated 2013-05-14 09:45:01 -0700 | allnews
At long last, warm weather has arrived, which means more playtime in Tokyo's parks from your scrappy, local patch of dirt to the manicured opulence of Shinjuku Gyoen National Garden...While not the most pristine public space Japan has to offer,...
Fearing China, India pulls out of war games with US, Japan
Source: The Hindustan Times
Okinawa :: Japan | updated 2013-05-12 14:06:28 -0700 | disasters-news
Concerned at how it would be perceived by Beijing, India last month suddenly withdrew from the planning of a naval exercise with the US and Japanese navies off the US Pacific island of Guam. Instead, India will stick to geopolitically...
Sumner pitcher lugs big heat in small package
Source: The News Tribune
Okinawa :: Japan | updated 2013-05-10 03:24:47 -0700 | sports-news
Christian Parsons barely had enough room to breathe, let alone rub elbows with his peers, when he walked through the door he hoped would be the first step toward making the roster of prestigious Taylor Baseball, which captured the 2011...
Japan protests China Okinawa article
Source: BBC
Okinawa :: Japan | updated 2013-05-09 08:53:26 -0700 | political-news
Japan protests over Chinese article on Okinawa sovereignty The US has a large military presence in Okinawa, including key airbases Japan has protested to China over a newspaper article that called for a review of Japanese sovereignty over Okinawa...Citing treaties,...
China questions Okinawa ownership
Source: Japan Times
Okinawa :: Japan | updated 2013-05-08 06:48:18 -0700 | political-news
Two scholars from an official Chinese research center suggested re-examining the ownership of the Japanese island chain that includes Okinawa, adding to tensions over the Senkaku territorial dispute. Agreements reached between the Allies during World War II mean the ownership...
How Soon We Forget
Source: Salem News
Okinawa :: Japan | updated 2013-05-06 15:32:16 -0700 | political-news
Salem-News.com Radical, religious extremists are all over the world and are bad for humanity. When the word radicals and terrorists are mentioned, what is your first thought? Since the horrific events of 9/11, people of a certain skin tone or...
What was there to celebrate?
Source: Japan Times
Okinawa :: Japan | updated 2013-05-04 08:35:42 -0700 | travel-news
As for the front-page April 29 article Sovereignty celebration hit by protests : Soon after the security treaty between Japan and the United States was furtively signed on Sept. 8, 1951, the San Francisco Peace Treaty was gloriously signed between...
Use mangosteen to fight disease and inflammation: Research
Source: Natural News
Okinawa :: Japan | updated 2013-05-01 03:01:21 -0700 | health-news
A tropical fruit known as mangosteen is a potent immune booster and anti-inflammatory that also appears to have significant cancer-fighting powers, research has shown. Mangosteen is a small, slow-growing tropical evergreen tree native to southeast Asia.
Military court reverses suicide attempt conviction
Source: The Boston Globe
Okinawa :: Japan | updated 2013-04-30 13:18:30 -0700 | travel-news
The U.S. military's highest court has reversed a Marine's conviction for a suicide attempt. The Court of Appeals for the Armed Forces issued the 3-2 split opinion late Monday...Lazzaric Caldwell's guilty plea in 2010 to a charge of wrongful self-injury...
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