April 4, 2012 Ryukyu Shimpo
Yoshimoto Kogyo, a well known Japanese entertainment company has suggested to the Japanese government and the Okinawa Prefectural Government (OPG) that land previously occupied by U.S. bases should be used to promote Okinawa to the world as a creative hub for the entertainment industry. The company plans to enhance the environment for the creation of content such as games and animation and to attract creators from both home and abroad. It also hopes to establish...
April 4, 2012 Ryukyu Shimpo
On April 1, at Oku in Kunigami, tea picking and bagging was held for a project to present the first-picked tea, the earliest tea picking in Japan, to areas stricken by the Great East Japan Earthquake as spring gifts. The Fan Club of the Local Community-based Cooperative...
April 9, 2012 Tomoya Kohatsu of the Ryukyu Shimpo
On April 8, the Ryukyu America Historical Research Society acquired 151 photographs of scenes in Okinawa during the period from directly after World War II to the 1960s. The collection includes photographs of people and scenery all over Okinawa...
April 2, 2012 Tomoko Oharu of the Ryukyu Shimpo
A survey carried out by the University of the Ryukyus indicates that the noise from the Marine Corps Air Station Futenma exceeded 100 decibels in the classrooms of the Second Futenma Elementary School, which is located next to the air base, Ginowan...
April 8, 2012 Ryukyu Shimpo
On April 7, a sightseeing tour began to put people on to the Yabiji coral reef during the spring tide in the sea north of Ikema Island, Miyako. Guided by two water carrier companies from Miyako, about 500 tourists enjoyed exploring Yabiji. These tours will run...
April 2, 2012 Ryukyu Shimpo
An incident of group suicide (shudan jiketsu), in which the Japanese military ordered or compelled 83 civilians to commit suicide occurred at Chibichiri Gama (a natural cave) in Namihira, Yomitan Village on April 2, 1945 soon after the U.S. forces...
March 29, 2012 Ryukyu Shimpo
On March 28, Naha Mayor Onaga announced that the city’s Uchinaguchi greeting campaign will commence from next month. Office staff members welcome citizens visiting the municipal office in Uchinaguchi. Mayor Onaga said, “Uchinaguchi...
March 31, 2012 Yoko Morinaga, correspondent of the Ryukyu Shimpo
A project called Okinawa Hope 21 that aims to accept children from Fukushima into a recreation center in Kumejima is about to commence. On March 30, a press conference to announce the project was held at Yamashiro, Kumejima on...
March 31, 2012 Ryukyu Shimpo
After Okinawa Governor Hirokazu Nakaima submitted a written statement of opinion on the environmental impact assessment report (EIA) on the plan to construct an alternative facility for the relocation of Futenma Air Station to Henoko, Nago, and demanded the relocation...
March 23, 2012 Ryukyu Shimpo
In the airfreight container project instituted by the Okinawa Prefectural Government (OPG), which is designed to expand the market for Okinawan products, the volume of products carried by air in the 2011 fiscal year increased about 43 times on a monthly average...
March 26, 2012 Ryukyu Shimpo
On March 15, digital information panels are now fully operational at three locations in Ishigaki – Ishigaki Airport Terminal, a municipal market and the Remote Island Terminal. The digital panels were set up with funding from the Okinawa Prefectural Government...
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