May 16, 2014 Ryukyu Shimpo
On May 15 at the Statue of Davao at the Peace Memorial Park in Itoman City, the Okinawa Davao Association held a memorial service. About 150 people attended, including bereaved families of the victims of the Pacific War who died in Davao in the Philippines. They prayed for the war dead.
Before the Pacific War, many Okinawans emigrated to Davao. Later they became victims of the war. At the service, the president of the Okinawa Davao Association Yoshihiro...
May 16, 2014 Ryukyu Shimpo
In fiscal 2014, the Okinawa Prefectural Government (OPG) will work on a project to train people who speak foreign languages to become diving guides.
The OPG aims to equip job seekers who can speak foreign languages with the diving expertise and skills needed...
May 16, 2014 Ryukyu Shimpo
To mark the 42nd anniversary of Okinawa’s reversion to Japanese sovereignty, a rally was held in the Henoko district of Nago on May 16. Participants marched around three courses. According to the organizers, about 1,100 people from in and outside Japan took...
May 9, 2014 Ryukyu Shimpo
Nago’s snake hunter Yasuhiro Makishi, 57, caught a habu snake and discovered that it had swallowed up the head of an adult Okinawa rail in the forest of Kunigami Jashiki at around 1:50 a.m. on May 8. When he opened the belly of the snake to make habu-sake or...
May 9, 2014 Ryukyu Shimpo
A member of a volunteer group confirmed that a rare bird with special national heritage status, is raising babies in the forest of Takae, Higashi. Chosei Tamaki, 74, the head of an environmental NGO, discovered an Okinawa woodpecker (or Noguchigera) nest just before...
April 29, 2014 Richard Oshiro, correspondent of Ryukyu Shimpo
At the Okinawa Association Hall in Argentina, the Ginoza Village Association held a ceremony to mark the 100th anniversary of emigration to Argentina. The association also celebrated the 60th anniversary of its founding.
About...
May 13, 2014 Ryukyu Shimpo
Three mega solar power plants, constructed by the Orion Beer company in Okinawa, have been switched on. On May 12, at the Orion Arashiyama Mega Solar Power Plant at Kogachi, Nago, the company held an opening and celebration. Orion Beer is the first food and beverage...
May 12, 2014 Ryukyu Shimpo
Okinawa’s national league basketball team Ryukyu Golden Kings attracted 101,054 visitors in the year ending May 11 – a national record. According to a spokesperson of the team, which is a star team in Japan’s professional basketball league or “bj league”,...
May 12, 2014 Ryukyu Shimpo
The Japanese government plans to begin within a year building a new U.S. military base in Henoko to replace U.S. Marine Corps Air Station Futenma. Nago Mayor Susumu Inamine addressed media gathered at the City Government Office on May 12. He said he opposed the plan...
May 9, 2014 Ryukyu Shimpo
On May 8, Nago Mayor Susumu Inamine announced his municipal government had sent the Okinawa Defense...
May 5, 2014 Ryukyu Shimpo
As part of studies for a peace class, 120 pupils of Yomitan’s Furugenminami Elementary School visited the Okinawa International Peace Research Institute in Naha on May 2.
Taking notes, they looked at displays showing about 1500 photographs about the Battle...
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