Overview
- The cabinet set the 2026 Okinawa-related allocation at ¥264.7 billion, up ¥5 billion year on year and the first increase since fiscal 2016.
- Funds are earmarked to speed repurposing of former U.S. base sites under the GW2050 initiative and to seed technology and partnership projects.
- Urasoe City Council voted pay cuts for the mayor and deputy mayor after a multipurpose sports facility required over ¥10 billion in additional costs.
- Lawmaker Muneo Suzuki told Russian officials the prime minister seeks an early Ukraine ceasefire but reported no progress on cemetery visits or fisheries talks.
- President Donald Trump said he ordered a U.S. strike in Nigeria against Islamic State targets to be delayed by one day, and media analysis showed a surge in Chinese-language content about Okinawa after recent remarks by the prime minister.