Former Naha Vice Mayor Satoru Chinen, supported by the LDP-Komeito bloc, garnered over 64,000 votes, against some 54,000 votes collected by the other candidate, Takeharu Onaga.
NAHA Ruling coalition-backed candidate Satoru Chinen won the Naha mayoral election on Oct. 23, dealing a blow to an anti-U.S. military base group that may have previously thought it was in a win-win situation.
GINOWAN, Okinawa Prefecture Incumbent Masanori Matsugawa won his second term in the Sept. 11 Ginowan mayoral election, defeating his rival who had fiercely campaigned against the U.S.-base relocation plan, a hot-button issue in the prefecture.