Okinawa Prefecture

...will seek to confirm three other pacts. The veiled documents include an agreement for Japan to shoulder $4 million of the cost of Okinawa's reversion to Japan, an accord to allow nuclear weapons to enter Okinawa during emergencies and the...

In this article: United States, Okinawa, Japan, Eisaku Sato, National Security Archives, Richard Nixon, and Masayoshi Ohira

...soil in the event of an emergency and an agreement for Japan to pay costs linked to returning the southern island of Okinawa to Japan in 1972 after US military occupation. The United States dropped atom bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki in...

In this article: Japan, United States, Katsuya Okada, World War II, Mainichi Shimbun, Yomiuri Shimbun, US State Department, Yukio Hatoyama, Christian Herter, and George Bush

...technology and pop subcultures. Fiesta: People from Okinawa beat drums and dance Saturday in Mexico City as part of a two-day event celebrating the 400th anniversary of relations between Japan and Mexico. KYODO PHOTO Led by a "mikoshi,"...

In this article: Mexico, Japan, Mexico City, and Okinawa

...in its dealings with the U.S. Obama said the U.S. and Japan would work quickly to resolve a dispute over American military bases on Okinawa, one that Washington thought was resolved three years ago. Hatoyama said the issue must be...

In this article: Yukio Hatoyama, United States, Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, Japan, Afghanistan, Asia, Washington, China, and Climate change

...on Mr. Hatoyama. But the U.S. should understand that Mr. Hatoyama's Democratic Party of Japan promised during the Lower House election campaign to find a new site for Futenma outside Okinawa, or even outside Japan. Both Japan and the...

In this article: Yukio Hatoyama, Barack Obama, Japan, United States, Climate change, Okinawa, Hiroshima, Democratic Party of Japan, Carbon, and Fissile Material Cutoff Treaty