Electing a Town Mayor in Okinawa: Report from the Nago Trenches [Updated]

Urashima Etsuko; Gavan McCormack

doi:10.1017/S1557466010009186

Electing a Town Mayor in Okinawa: Report from the Nago Trenches [Updated]

Published online by Cambridge University Press: 07 May 2025

Urashima Etsuko and

Gavan McCormack

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Town hall Japanese politics is rarely of much interest beyond the town, much less beyond the country. The election of a new mayor in Nago City in Okinawa on 24 January, however, is something very much out of the ordinary. It would be no exaggeration to say that no local election in postwar Japan has carried such weight.

Type: Research Article
Information: Asia-Pacific Journal , Volume 8 , Issue 4 , January 2010 , e1

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/S1557466010009186 [Opens in a new window]
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