PM-backed candidate wins Okinawa governor race, raising questions over base policy
Genta Koja has won Okinawa's gubernatorial election, defeating two-term incumbent Denny Tamaki in a result that could reshape debate over the prefecture's long-running dispute with Tokyo and Washington. Officials said Koja won 59% of the vote in Sunday's election, with the result announced on Monday. The 42-year-old former deputy mayor of Naha will become Okinawa's youngest governor since the prefecture was returned to Japan from US rule in 1972.Koja was backed by Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi's Liberal Democratic Party, giving the ruling camp a stronger position in a prefecture that has often resisted the concentration of US military facilities. Tamaki,... [Continue Reading]
360LiveNews | 14 Sep 2026 05:30 LONDON
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