Japan's central government looks set to continue implementing its plan to relocate a US base within the southwestern prefecture of Okinawa.
Sunday's Okinawa prefectural assembly election gave a small majority to parties supporting Governor Tamaki Denny.
Tokyo Metropolitan Government officials say 161 new cases of coronavirus infection were confirmed in the capital on Tuesday, bringing the total to 2,319.
Tokyo has been reporting daily increases of more than 100 cases since last Wednesday, except on Monday when the figure was below 100.
The number of new daily coronavirus cases reported in Japan on Tuesday stood at nine as of 11:30 a.m.
This brings the total number of confirmed cases in the country to 4,108, including people found to have the virus during arrival checks at airports, health ministry and quarantine officials, as well as those who returned to Japan on chartered planes from China.
The number of confirmed coronavirus infections in Japan had reached 1,896 as of Monday noon. The figure includes 14 people who returned from China's Hubei Province on chartered flights.
The data was compiled by local governments and the health ministry. It includes 41 cases among health ministry officials, quarantine officers and those who were found to have the virus during arrival checks at airports.
Japan's Health Ministry will continue to check the condition of passengers who got off the quarantined cruise ship docked near Tokyo, after one of them tested positive for the new coronavirus on Saturday.
Nine hundred sixty-nine passengers left the Diamond Princess last week after testing negative for the virus and finishing the two-week quarantine period.
An official of the 2020 Olympic and Paralympic Games organizing committee has pledged to continue preparations for the event for the sake of athletes, despite the new coronavirus outbreak.
Hisashi Nakaminami, the head of the Paralympic Games Integration Office, spoke to reporters in Tokyo on Friday -- nearly six months before the Games start on August 25.
Passengers continue to disembark from the quarantined cruise ship docked at Yokohama Port.
As of Wednesday, a total of 621 passengers and crew members on the Diamond Princess had tested positive for the new coronavirus.