Is Japan’s Okinawa finally moving past anti-base politics?
Okinawa has handed a landslide victory to a conservative who accepts Tokyo’s plans for relocating a controversial US airbase – delivering a blow to 12 years of anti-base politics in Japan’s southernmost prefecture.
Genta Koja’s victory on Sunday over two-term governor Denny Tamaki raised a question cutting to the heart of Okinawa’s post-war politics: is it finally starting to move on from the US military base issue?
Koja, a 42-year-old conservative backed by Japanese Prime Minister Sanae...
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Primary source: South China Morning Post
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