November 16, 2017 Ryukyu Shimpo
The prefecture has labeled the environmental issue, involving dust and noise from dump trucks that come/go to the port, as a “new development.”
As a result, the prefecture announced on November 15 that it is considering revoking the permission to use Oku Port for transporting materials for the new base construction.
Oku Port in Kunigami Village has been used for transporting materials by sea for the seawall construction...
November 13, 2017 Ryukyu Shimpo online edition
Past 7:30 a.m. on November 13, a large boat for use transporting gravel and stones over the ocean was docked at Oku Port in Kunigami Village.
This boat is taking the materials to Henoko, Nago City, for use in constructing a...
November 10, 2017Ryukyu Shimpo
Following the temporary deployment of the U.S. Air Force’s newest stealth fighters F-35As from Hill Air Force Base in Utah to Kadena Air Base, the Kadena Town Council held a special session at which they unanimously adopted a protest...
November 14, 2017 Ryukyu Shimpo
Okinawa Governor Takeshi Onaga met with United States Ambassador to Japan William F.
Haggerty at the prefectural office November 13.
This was Ambassador Haggerty’s first meeting with the Governor and his second visit...
November 10, 2017 Ryukyu Shimpo
The British Museum in England, the world’s largest museum, has acquired two ceramic works created by Haruhiko Kaneko, 56, owner of the well-renowned Ishigaki-yaki Pottery Studio in Ishigaki. The two pieces are the “Yohen-taihi tenmoku tea bowl”...
November 9, 2017Ryukyu Shimpo
The Okinawa Defense Bureau executed a service agreement in 2015-2016...
November 9, 2017 Ryukyu Shimpo
On November 8, the Ministry of Defense made an announcement regarding Osprey accident rates after receiving information from the U.S. As of end of September, the class A accident rate of the 100-thousand hours of fly time made by the...
November 7, 2017 Ryukyu Shimpo
On November 6, the Okinawa Defense Bureau (ODB) of the Ministry of Defense (MOD) undertook construction of two new seawalls related to construction of a replacement facility for Futenma Air Station at the planned site in Henoko, Nago...
November 3, 2017 Ryukyu Shimpo
Approximately twenty Hawaiians with Okinawan ancestry visited the Chibichirigama in Yomitan Village on November 1, where a group of young men had vandalized the natural cave. The group played Kwamucha-bushi and made offered up origami...
November 3, 2017 Ryukyu Shimpo
Due to typhoons numbers 21 and 22, the ferry from the main island of Okinawa was unable to make its delivery to Minamidaito and Kitadaito Villages since October 15.
On November 2, for the first time in 18 days, the ferry arrived...
November 1, 2017 Ryukyu Shimpo
Taiwan University will return the remains of Ryukyuan people that were found in Mumujana grave in Nakijin Village by anthropologists from the former Imperial Universities in the early Showa era and are being kept at the university.
The...
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