Okinawa Prefecture

Pacific briefs: Undergraduate Flying Training application deadline is Nov. 14

stripes.com     Sep 3, 2008          

Stars and Stripes Pacific edition, Thursday, September 4, 2008 Active-duty Air Force officers interested in training as pilots, combat systems officers or battle managers have until Nov. 14 to apply to the Undergraduate...                    

Disclosure of Okinawa reversion documents requested

kyodo.co.jp     Sep 2, 2008          

A group of influential persons asked the government Tuesday to disclose its documents on the 1972 reversion of Okinawa to Japanese sovereignty from the United States in a bid to prove there was a secret bilateral agreement...                    

Home safe: 3rd Marine Division troops recall Iraq tour, look ahead to life

stripes.com     Aug 30, 2008          

By Cindy Fisher, Stars and Stripes Pacific edition, Sunday, August 31, 2008 Cindy Fisher/S&S About 75 servicemembers from 3rd Marine Division, most with Camp Schwab’s Combat Assualt Battalion, arrive Friday at Kadena Air...                    

Can food slow the signs of aging?

msn.com     Aug 29, 2008          

New studies suggest healthy eating may add years to your life. Lately, though, I've begun to wonder if it isn't time to take a fresh look at the field of anti-aging research—and not only because I'm halfway through my...                    

Army spouse pleads guilty to drug charge

stripes.com     Aug 29, 2008          

Stars and Stripes Pacific edition, Saturday, August 30, 2008 NAHA — A Naha District prosecutor Wednesday asked for an eight-month prison sentence for an Army spouse who pleaded guilty to having marijuana shipped to her...                    

Okinawa water reservoirs running low

stripes.com     Aug 28, 2008          

Short rainy season, current weather trend could lead to rationing in November By Chiyomi Sumida , Stars and Stripes Pacific edition, Friday, August 29, 2008 With a short rainy season this year and a typhoon season that...                    

Plaintiffs in Futenma noise case tell U.S. diplomat to leave Okinawa

keralanext.com     Aug 27, 2008   1 related          

NAHA — A group of plaintiffs demanding the suspension of flights at the U.S. Marine Corps’ Futenma Air Station in Okinawa Prefecture due to flight noise on Tuesday told a top U.S. diplomat in the prefecture to leave the...                    

Museum gets WWII photos by U.S. sailor in Okinawa

thejapannews.net     Aug 26, 2008          

NAHA, Okinawa Pref. (Kyodo) Photographs taken by a now-deceased U.S. Navy sailor in the days immediately after the Battle of Okinawa in World War II have been donated to the Okinawa Prefectural Peace Memorial Museum. The...                    

Dropping atomic bombs on Japan was an act of utmost compassion

psychologytoday.com     Aug 22, 2008          

Just because an act happens to be atrocious does not mean that it is not simultaneously the most humane and compassionate thing to do under the circumstances. Sometimes the alternatives are much worse. After the fall of Okinawa...                    

Sunken U.S. military ship identified off Okinawa

thejapannews.net     Aug 22, 2008          

TOSHIYUKI TSUNENARI, THE ASAHI SHIMBUN Sunken U.S. military ship identified off Okinawa (TOSHIYUKI TSUNENARI/ THE ASAHI SHIMBUN) A shipwreck off the Kerama islands in Okinawa Prefecture has been identified as a wartime U.S....                    

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