Nago [city] - Nago

Japanese: 名護[市] - なご

A city in the northern part of Okinawa Island, Okinawa Prefecture. It was incorporated as a city in 1970. The city center faces Nago Bay, and is backed by Paleozoic mountains. As the central city of the northern part of Okinawa Island, it has many national and prefectural offices, and is a bustling commercial city. In addition to orchids and chrysanthemums, fruit and vegetable cultivation is also thriving. There is a fishing port, and a lot of bonito is landed, and sea bream and prawn farming is also carried out. There are also factories that process beer, meat, cement, sugar, and pineapples. The Okinawa Expressway runs through the city, and the coast is a scenic spot with a swimming beach. The ruins of Nago Castle, located east of the city, are famous for their winter cherry blossoms, and nearby is the 300-year-old Himpun Gajumaru tree. In the southwest is the Bankoku Shinryokan, where the summit was held. In the eastern part of the city, in Henoko, Kushi region, is the US Marine Corps' Camp Schwab (which straddles Ginoza Village, Kunigami County, but most of it is in Nago City). In December 1999, the mayor of Nago announced that he would accept the offshore Henoko as an alternative site for the Futenma base, but no progress was made due to the fact that the construction method had not been finalized, the opposition of residents, and the impact on the natural environment (where a variety of living creatures, including the endangered dugong, live). After that, the Futenma base relocation issue underwent several twists and turns, but in December 2013, Prime Minister Abe met with Okinawa Governor Nakaima and presented a plan to reduce the burden on the base. Governor Nakaima highly praised this and announced his intention to approve the application for landfill work off the coast of Henoko in Nago City, and the prefecture officially approved the Henoko relocation. Under the Democratic Party administration (September 2009 to December 2012), Governor Nakaima opposed the Henoko relocation and called for the base to be relocated outside the prefecture, but under the Abe administration, he completely changed his stance. In the Nago mayoral election in February 2014, Susumu Inamine, who was opposed to the relocation, won. Inamine is prepared to use his mayoral authority to block the relocation. In a public opinion poll of Okinawans, 22% were in favor of relocating the US Futenma Air Base to Henoko in Nago City, while 66% were opposed. In the Okinawa gubernatorial election held in November 2014, Takeshi Onaga, who declared that he would revoke the landfill permit off the coast of Henoko, was elected. ^{210.90 km2} . 60,231 people (2010). → Henoko relocation issue → Related article Nagoran

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沖縄県沖縄島北部の市。1970年市制。中心市街は名護湾に臨み，背後は古生層の山地。沖縄島北部地域の中心都市で国や県の出先機関も多く，商業が活発。ラン，キクなど花卉(かき)のほか果樹・野菜栽培が盛ん。漁港があり，カツオの水揚が多く，タイ・クルマエビ養殖も行われる。ビール，食肉加工，セメント，製糖，パイナップル加工等の工場もある。沖縄自動車道が通じ，海岸は景勝地で海水浴場もある。市街地東方にある名護城跡は寒緋桜の名所で，近くには樹齢300年のヒンプンガジュマルがある。南西部にはサミットが開かれた万国津梁館がある。東部の久志地域辺野古に米軍海兵隊のキャンプ・シュワブ（国頭郡宜野座村にまたがるが大半が名護市）がある。1999年12月普天間基地の移設問題で，名護市長が辺野古(へのこ)沖を代替地として受け入れると表明したが，工法が確定せず，住民の反対や自然環境（絶滅危惧種のジュゴンをはじめ多様な生物の生息が認められている）への影響などから進展をみなかった。その後，普天間基地移設問題は二転三転したが，2013年12月安倍首相は仲井真沖縄県知事と会談，基地負担軽減策を提示し仲井真知事はこれを高く評価して名護市辺野古沖の埋め立て申請を認める方針を表明，県として辺野古移設を正式に承認した。民主党政権下（2009年９月〜2012年12月）では辺野古移設に反対して県外移設を主張していた仲井真知事が安倍政権で姿勢を一転させた。2014年２月の名護市長選では，移設反対派の稲嶺進が勝利。稲嶺は市長権限を使って移設を阻止する構えである。沖縄県民の世論調査では，米軍普天間基地飛行場の名護市辺野古への移設は賛成22％に対して反対が66％にのぼった。2014年11月に行われた沖縄県知事選では，辺野古沖の埋め立て許可を撤回する表明をしている翁長雄志が当選している。210.90km²。６万231人（2010）。→辺野古移設問題
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