{"id":107657,"date":"2022-09-10T21:15:55","date_gmt":"2022-09-10T21:15:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/news\/relocation-of-u-s-military-base-fades-as-issue-in-okinawa-governor-s-race"},"modified":"2022-09-10T21:15:55","modified_gmt":"2022-09-10T21:15:55","slug":"relocation-of-u-s-military-base-fades-as-issue-in-okinawa-governor-s-race","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/news\/relocation-of-u-s-military-base-fades-as-issue-in-okinawa-governor-s-race","title":{"rendered":"Relocation of U.S. military base fades as issue in Okinawa governor&#8217;s race"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Sept. 10 (UPI) &#8212; As the candidates for Okinawa governor get set to face off on Sunday, the planned relocation of a key U.S. military base has faded as an issue.The U.S. Marine Corps&#8217;s Futenma air base had been a key issue when work on it began nearly four years ago to relocate the base from Ginowan to rural Henoko coastal area of Nago, with candidates taking different stances on the issue. Incumbent Gov. Denny Tamaki, 62, strongly opposes the relocation. Challenger Atshushi Sakima, 58, supports the relocation. A third candidate in the race, Mikio Shimoji, 61, opposes further land reclamation work at Henoko and is pushing for relocation to another island.Okinawa still hosts the bulk of U.S. bases in the country over 50 years after it was returned to Japan from the postwar U.S. administration in 1972. The relocation plan was first agreed upon between Japan and the United States in 1996, according to the Japan Times. The central<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sept. 10 (UPI) &#8212; As the candidates for Okinawa governor get set to face off on Sunday, the planned relocation of a key U.S. military base has faded as an<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[97,42,102],"class_list":["post-107657","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-military","tag-politics","tag-world"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/107657","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=107657"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/107657\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=107657"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=107657"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=107657"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}