Voters Emphasized Economic Concerns over Base Relocation in Choosing Koja
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Genta Koja, a candidate for the retention of an American military base on the Japanese island of Okinawa, was elected, on Sunday 13 September 2026, governor of the department. He largely defeated the outgoing leader who was campaigning for the outright departure of this controversial installation in Japan.
For a long time, the American bases are no longer at the heart of the population's concerns, which are rather concerned about the economic situation.
Topics of interest: "The opposition to the Henoko relocation should not be taken lightly," says Takeshi Iwaya, paying tribute to Tamaki, who lost the Okinawa gubernatorial election. https://t.co/CRlWTErt87 Genta Koja, who was elected with the endorsement of the Liberal Democratic Party and the Japan Innovation Party, among others.
Gento Koja, backed by the government of Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi, won Sunday's election for governor of Japan's Okinawa prefecture. Koja defeated incumbent Governor Denny Tamaki, who has opposed Tokyo's military buildup on the strategically important archipelago near the...
Japan’s Okinawa ousts anti-US base governor
The US military presence will remain a major issue for Koja, a former civil servant who was also a deputy mayor of Naha, the region’s capital city. The United States has around 54,000 military personnel stationed in Japan, mostly on Okinawa, but a string of incidents over the years, including sexual assault cases, have angered […]
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