October 22, 2012 Ryukyu Shimpo
On October 22, the Okinawa Prefectural Assembly held a special meeting in which it unanimously passed a protest resolution and accepted a written statement of opinion regarding the case in which two U.S. navy sailors have been charged with the rape of an Okinawan woman. In addition to a radical revision of the U.S.-Japan Status of Forces Agreement and a full apology and compensation to victims, for the first time, the assembly requested that the governments...
October 21, 2012, Ryukyu Shimpo
The second World Youth Uchinanchu Festival will be held in Los Angeles at the end of next June. This festival that brings together Uchinanchu youth from all around the globe is organized by the World Youth Uchinanchu Association (WYUA),...
October 22, 2012 Masanao Chinen of the Ryukyu Shimpo
On October 21, the Naha Municipal Office announced that it will incorporate greetings in Uchinaguchi into this year’s employment test interviews. This is a part of the “Haisai, Haitai Campaign” in which staff...
October 24, 2012 Ryukyu Shimpo
On October 23, a group lobbying against the Treaty of Mutual Cooperation and Security between the United States and Japan held a rally in the Hibiya Open Air Concert Hall in Chiyoda, Tokyo, to protest against the deployment of the Osprey. About 2000 people took...
October 19, 2012 Ryukyu Shimpo
On October 18, Peach Aviation, a low-cost company (LCC) related to All Nippon Airways (ANA), based at Kansai Airport, began a Kansai-Naha route. The terminal for LCC established within the ANA cargo terminal at Naha Airport also officially started. It is a one-story...
October 19, 2012 Ryukyu Shimpo
In the morning of October 19, the Okinawa Prefectural Museum & Art Museum announced that they had found human and boar bones and tools made of quartz and shellfish in the 12000 year-old layer of the Old Stone Age in the Sakitari Cave Ruins in Nanjo. According...
October 22, 2012 Ryukyu Shimpo
On October 21, the final of the 52nd Miss International was held at the Budokan in Naha. Ikumi Yoshimatsu, 25, from Saga Prefecture, won Miss International 2012, ahead of 68 other beauty contest candidates from 80 countries and regions. This was the first time...
October 14, 2012 Ryukyu Shimpo
On October 7 at Tomimori in Yaese, a full moon festival was held in the square in front of the local community center. The town’s intangible cultural heritage, Tunchu junei (Chinese parade) and Yamatonchu junei (Japanese parade) were performed....
October 24, 2012 Hideki Matsudo of Ryukyu Shimpo reports from Washington D.C.
In the morning of October 23, the Okinawa Prefectural Government held a symposium in Washington D.C. to discuss the U.S. Marine Corps Air Station Futenma relocation issue. In his opening speech, Governor Hirokazu...
October 24, 2012 Hideki Matsudo of Ryukyu Shimpo reports from Washington D.C.
In the afternoon of October 22, at the U.S. State Department in Washington D.C., Governor of Okinawa Hirokazu Nakaima met with Kurt Campbell, the assistant secretary of state for East Asian and Pacific affairs,...
October 19, 2012 Ryukyu Shimpo
With regard to the sexual assault case against two U.S. sailors, representatives of the municipalities, political parties and civil groups protested on October 18 to the agencies of the governments of Japan and the United States, and to the U.S. military authorities...
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