Okinawan companies take part in Japanese Food Fair in Singapore
October 29, 2013 Ryukyu Shimpo
According to the Okinawa Prefectural Government, eleven Okinawan companies, including breweries...
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Okinawan researchers succeed in sex-change for fish
November 8, 2013 Ryukyu Shimpo
Masaru Nakamura of the Okinawa Chura Umi Foundation and other researchers succeeded in converting an adult female fish to a male, for the first time in the world. They managed this by administering a drug that stops the synthesis of female hormones. The foundation announced this world-first achievement...
Dugong plaintiffs consider new action in U.S. to block Henoko landfill
November 6, 2013 Yugo Okita of the Ryukyu Shimpo
Okinawa dugong plaintiffs are considering filing a new lawsuit in the United States...
Three winners of Miss Okinawa 2014
November 3, 2013 Ryukyu Shimpo
The Okinawa Convention & Visitors Bureau held the Miss Okinawa Contest 2014 at the conference...
Over 30,000 grey-faced buzzards fly to Miyako
October 29, 2013 Ryukyu Shimpo
On October 28, the Nature Conservation Section of the Okinawa Prefectural Government and the Wild Bird Society of Miyako announced that the number of gray-faced buzzards observed at two spots in Miyako-jima City has reached 31,833. This is the first time since...
Kishi pushed U.S. to set deadline for Okinawa’s return at 1957 summit
October 31, 2013 Ryukyu Shimpo
Diplomatic documents declassified on October 30 revealed that at his meeting with President Dwight D. Eisenhower in Washington, D.C., on June 1957, then Prime Minister Nobusuke Kishi was to request that administrative rights over Okinawa to be returned to Japan...
First generation Okinawan Bolivian couple returns to their homeland
November 4, 2013 Ryukyu Shimpo
On November 2, a couple who were among the first group of emigrants from Okinawa to Bolivia in 1954 came home after 11 years. Ninety-one-year-old Tetsu Nagayama and eighty-eight-year-old Tomiko came back to Okinawa in 1972 before going back to Bolivia in 2002.
Their...
Floss silk trees in full bloom
October 31, 2013 Ryukyu Shimpo
Floss silk trees in full bloom in various parts of Okinawa add a slash of color to the prefecture’s streets and towns. Seventy-seven-year-old Naha resident Masahiro Sakumoto enjoys looking at the beautifully formed flowers on a tree in his garden.
The...
Orion Beer to operate mega solar plant from next April
November 1, 2013 Ryukyu Shimpo
On October 31 at Nakaoji in Nago, Orion Beer held a groundbreaking ceremony for the building of mega solar plants in Nago City, Nakijin Village and Itoman City. Orion Beer is the first food and beverage company in Okinawa to start such a solar power generation...
Okinawan electronics company to introduce new photovoltaic system to Solomon Islands
October 31, 2013 Ryukyu Shimpo
From October 31, Okinawa Kobori Electronics will start work on a project to introduce the new utility interactive photovoltaic system that the company has developed to the Solomon Islands in the South Pacific. The Japan International Cooperation Agency commissioned...
Camera drops from U.S. military helicopter
November 1, 2013 Ryukyu Shimpo
On November 1, it was revealed that an HH-60 rescue helicopter belonging to Kadena Air Base may have dropped its mounted camera during training. According to the Okinawa Defense Bureau, after returning from a flight training exercise U.S. military personnel realized...
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