LDP-backed candidate wins Ginowan mayor election in Okinawa

The candidate backed by the ruling Liberal Democratic Party won Sunday's mayoral election in Ginowan, a city in the southern Japan prefecture of Okinawa that hosts a U.S. military base at the heart of controversy over its relocation within Okinawa.Atsushi Sakima, 60, served as mayor from 2012 to 2018. He backs the closure of U.S. Marine Corps Air Station Futenma, located in a crowded residential part of the city, and its move to the less populated coastal district of Henoko in Nago, in line with former Mayor Masanori Matsugawa, whose sudden death in July triggered the vote.Sakima, who was a…READ FULL ARTICLE