Archive for June, 2011
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Protest rally against the Kadena-Futenma integration plan
June 12, 2011 Ryukyu Shimpo
“Protest rally against the Kadena-Futenma integration plan” was held at Michinoeki Kadena, in Kadena Town. Those at the rally adopted a resolution and called for the rescinding of the Kadena-Futenma integration plan, the reduction of accidents related to the U.S. military bases in Okinawa and relocation of Futenma Air Station either out of the prefecture or out of Japan.
Suffering from the negative impact of noise and exhaust fumes from U.S. airplanes,...
Tripod Co. seeks to establish a medical tourism partnership with China to attract wealthy visitors
June 11, 2011 Ryukyu Shimpo
Tripod is a company operating out of Tomigusuku City that mainly coordinates healthcare tourism. Its president, Seishu Tamaki, is seeking to collaborate with Yuanhua Healthcare Co.Ltd, headed by president Zhao Lei, to attract wealthy tourists from China. With 500,000...
Eisa Advertising Tower erected at the Raikamu intersection
June 14, 2011, Ryukyu Shimpo
Okinawa Zento (all islands) Eisa Festival Executive Committee (headed by Mitsuko Tomon, Mayor of Okinawa City) has erected a tower advertising Eisa, a type of folk dance unique to the people of the Ryukyu Islands, at the Raikamu (Rycom) intersection in Yamazato,...
The sun shining on squid drying in the open air on Ojima Island
June 11, 2011 by Yasuhide Matayoshi, Photographer of Ryukyu Shimpo
A typical scene as people start their traditional summer work of drying squid in the sun on the fishermen’s island of Ojima, Nanjo City. Squid caught in the morning are carefully prepared and brought into the port to be hung...
Ginowan Mayor’s sit-in-protest against the Osprey deployment
June 13, 2011 Ryukyu Shimpo
On the morning of June 13 residents of Ginowan City watched a sit-in protest rally at the City Hall against plans to deploy the MV-22 Osprey vertical takeoff and landing transport aircraft. The protest included Takeshi Asato, mayor of Ginowan City, city council...
Governor Nakaima criticizes the Defense Minister’s notification of the plan to build the V-shaped runway at Henoko
June 14, 2011 Ryukyu Shimpo
On June 13, Defense Minister Toshimi Kitazawa met Okinawa Governor Hirokazu Nakaima at the prefectural office to formally tell him that the governments of the United States and Japan will decide to build a V-shape runway for the replacement facilities for the U.S....
Heads of 38 municipalities oppose the deployment of MV-22 Osprey at Futenma Air Station
June 11, 2011 Ryukyu Shimpo
A survey conducted by Ryukyu Shimpo on June 10 about the deployment of MV-22 Osprey vertical take-off and landing transport aircraft at the Futenma Air Station from 2012 has revealed that this is opposed by the heads of 38 of 48 municipalities in the prefecture.
Novelist describes his memory of the land taken by the U.S. military
June 9, 2011, Ryukyu Shimpo,
Eighty-five year-old Tatsuhiro Oshiro, an Akutagawa Prize-winning writer, will publish his anthology of short stories Futenma yo through Shinchosha Co., Ltd. in mid-June. Futenma yo, is the overarching name of seven short stories written specifically...
Sutsuupunaka: celebration of a full harvest in Tarama Village
June 8, 2011 Ryukyu Shimpo
On June 6 and 7, the harvest festival Sutsuupunaka was held in four sites in Tarama Village with all the villagers wishing for a year with a good harvest.
From late in the evening on June 6 into the early hours of June 7, elders sang divine songs and...
Fresh traces suggesting that dugong ate seaweed further out in Oura Bay
June 7, 2011 Ryukyu Shimpo
The diving team Snack Snufkin has found traces of dugong eating seaweed underwater about 600 meters off the coast south of Sedake, Nago City.
Nobu Nishihara, a representative of the team that carried out the biological survey in Oura Bay, said, “This sort...
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