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Here is a video by Isamu Shimoji (下地 勇) singing the song Obaa in the dialect of Miyako Island.

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'' Local communities in the candidate sites are divided between pros and cons, '' Shimoji said, referring to the government's reported plan to relocate Futenma's helicopter unit to an island to be reclaimed off Okinawa Island or Tokunoshima Island in Kagoshima Prefecture, after temporarily moving it to Nago, also Okinawa.

Japan Today: Japan News and Discussion 2010

Shimoji said he pledged to be a voice for Guam in the Japanese Diet.

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'' Local communities in the candidate sites are divided between pros and cons, '' Shimoji said, referring to the government's reported plan to relocate Futenma's helicopter unit to an island to be reclaimed off Okinawa Island or Tokunoshima Island in Kagoshima Prefecture, after temporarily moving it to Nago, also Okinawa.

Japan Today: Japan News and Discussion 2010

It's infuriating, '' said Shimoji, who has taken paid holidays to stage his first hunger strike.

Japan Today: Japan News and Discussion 2010

"It was very encouraging," Shimoji said in a telephone interview upon his return to Tokyo on Thursday evening.

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Shimoji said the panel will relay the resolution to Prime Minister Yukio Hatoyama, along with Guam Gov.

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Shimoji said the governor of the Commonwealth of the Northern Marianas Islands, Benigno Fitial, told him that he would like to make four of the 15 islands in the commonwealth available for U.S. military training.

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Shimoji said he was unable to visit Tinian, but did spend two hours Wednesday with Fitial and other officials on Saipan.

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