February 17, 2020 Ryukyu Shimpo
By Tamiko Suzuki
Yoshina Kishimoto, 39, a Naha City native, works at a Washington, D.C. patent law firm where she files patent applications for trademarks and designs.
Unlike Japan, the U.S. employs a unique patent agent system.
Owning design patents and trademarks are beneficial to companies conducting business in the world’s largest economy, and filing applications to the United States Patent and Trademark Office is essential to...
February 18, 2020 Ryukyu Shimpo
The Okinawa Defense Bureau has not been able to confirm that the ocean around Okinawa Island is inhabited by dugong through its dugong surveys being conducted in association with construction the Futenma Replacement Facility.
In November of last year,...
February 20, 2020 Ryukyus Shimpo
The Nansei shoto Industrial Advancement Center (NIAC, Mitsuru Omine, president) announced their estimation of the effects the corona virus would have on the Okinawan economy February 19.
They estimate that the effects of the virus would continue from...
February 17, 2020 Ryukyu Shimpo
Regarding the issue that data existed indicating the presence of “weak” ground deeper than 70 meters below the sea surface at the location of the new base construction in Henoko, Nago, Niigata University emeritus professor of geology Masaaki Tateishi and...
February 16, 2020 Ryukyu Shimpo Digital Edition
Chubu – The 28th 2020 Okinawa Marathon (co-hosted by Chubu Large Area Municipal Corp, the Ryukyu Shimpo Co. Ltd., Okinawa Television, the Japan Association of Athletics Federations (JAAF) Okinawa, and the Okinawa Comprehensive Athletic Park...
February 16, 2020 Ryukyu Shimpo
The event Ryukyu Buyo and Kumiodori was held on February 15 at Shurijo Castle Park in Naha City to celebrate the 300th anniversary of kumiodori (traditional Okinawan dance) and to offer prayers for the reconstruction of Shuri Castle.
The event was organized...
February 11, 2020 Ryukyu Shimpo
February 9 saw the start of joint excavation work by youth from Japan, South Korea, and Taiwan (organized by the Kenken Remains Excavation Joint Action Committee) on land in Kenken, Motobu where the remains of fourteen people, including two Koreans, were buried...
February 5, 2020 Ryukyu Shimpo
The spread of a pneumonia brought about by the corona virus has had an ever-increasing impact on the global economy, and it has cast a large shadow over the economy of Okinawa, which had previously been enjoying continued growth in their tourism industry.
Okinawa...
February 12, 2020 Ryukyu Shimpo
By Kazuki Furugen
Manabu Kochi is an artist from Naha who lives in France.
Recently, he completed a painting imbued with the grief he feels at the loss of Shuri Castle, which burned down in late October of last year, and his hopes for its reconstruction....
February 14, 2020 Ryukyu Shimpo
A U.S. Navy F/A-18 fighter-attack aircraft (based in Marine Corps Air Station Iwakuni) lost its fuel door (panel covering the fuel tank) during an exercise conducted on Kadena Air Base.
On February 13, the U.S. Naval Forces Japan effectively admitted...
February 13, 2020 Ryukyu Shimpo
On the evening of February 11, a light phenomenon in which light appears in the sky horizontal to the sun, called a “parhelion (genjitsu)”, was observed in Naha City and Urasoe City.
The light appearing to both sides of the sun made it seem as though...
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