August 4, 2014 Ryukyu Shimpo
Ten Thousand Eisa Dance Parade was held in the 20th Summer Festival on Kokusai Street in Naha. With great vigour and energy, the participants performed Okinawan traditional performing arts such as eisa dance and creative dance on the road. The crowd of spectators enjoyed it.
Celebrating the summer season, the sound of the drums echoed on the street under blue skies.
About 30 eisa organizations as well as eisa groups...
August 4, 2014 Ryukyu Shimpo
Two South American students of Okinawan descent, whose roots are in Yonabaru Town, took part in the Yonabaru Great Tug-of-War at the Udun-yama Youth Square in Yonabaru Town on July 27.
Sebastian Pablo Uehara who is from Argentina, took part as shitaku,...
July 31 2014 Ryukyu SHimpo
Under the theme of “Plant Okinawan seeds in Europe,” the third World Youth Uchinanchu Festival Germany 2014 was held in Dusseldorf from July 30 to August 1. Young people of Okinawan descent took part from all around the world. The event drew 38...
July 31, 2014 Ryukyu Shimpo
The Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology (OIST), based in Onna, has founded its first venture company Okinawa Protein Tomography Ltd. (Okinawa PT). The company headed by CEO Akira Kamei was founded on June 25. It commenced business at the start of August....
August 2, 2014 Ryukyu Shimpo
Environmental groups in Japan and the United States and the plaintiffs of the Okinawa dugong lawsuit filed a new action with the San Francisco Federal District Court on July 3. The National Historic Preservation Act (NHPA) of the United States requires the government...
July 31, 2014 Yukito Kinjo Correspondent of Ryukyu Shimpo
On a severely hot day at a field in Nishieue, Ie Village, an elderly person works silently to plant shima rakkyo. Yoshio Yamashiro from Nishieue is 94 years old, born in 1920. He has weak hearing, but he is robust with a...
July 29, 2014 Ryukyu Shimpo
Okinawa airline companies will work on increasing flights between Singapore and Naha.
Junbo Tours and Okinawa Tourist plan to carry out eight flight tours between Okinawa and Singapore from September to December. The number is an annual record on the route....
July 24, 2014 Wu Li Jun of the Ryukyu Shimpo
Medical corporation Tapic Group plans to change its Yuinchi Hotel Nanjo to medical tourist facility. They will build an annex to house a new rehabilitation facility and clinic on hotel property. It will open in April 2017.
The hotel annex...
July 27, 2014 Ryukyu Shimpo
The Japan Agency for Marine-Earth Science and Technology (JAMSTEC) announced on July 26 that there is possibly presence of a hydrothermal deposit under the sea off the coast of Iheya Island. JAMSTEC speculates that this hydrothermal deposit is the largest one of...
July 27, 2014 Ryukyu Shimpo
Japanese company Kaiyodo which is known for figurines and garage kits worldwide, held a figure exhibit at the special hall on the third floor of Tomarin (Tomari Port Terminal) in Naha.
Organizers displayed over 4,000 figures created by the company. The exhibit...
July 24, 2014 Ryukyu Shimpo
On July 23, Naha Mayor Takeshi Onaga stated that he would announce during a regular session of the city council slated to be held on September 8 that he will run in the gubernatorial election. The election is to be held on November 16. He will make his declaration...
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