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150 citizens hold on-water protest against Henoko base marking one year since embankment work began

150 citizens hold on-water protest against Henoko base marking one year since embankment work began

April 25, 2018 Ryukyu Shimpo

 

April 25 marked one year since embankment work commenced for the new base in Henoko, Nago City.

The Helicopter Base Objection Association held a sit-in on the water in Oura Bay.

A little after 9:00 a.m., 150 people called to action assembled in 60 canoes and 8 boats and set out together.

They faced the shore of Camp Schwab where construction is moving forward and raised their voices with the messages: “Don’t destroy...

 

Two years after murder by ex-Marine, wounds of the bereaved family have yet to heal

Two years after murder by ex-Marine, wounds of the bereaved family have yet to heal

April 27, 2018 Ryukyu Shimpo

 

As of April 28, it has been two years since it occurred that a U.S. military contractor sexually assaulted and murdered a woman in the central part of Okinawa Island.

On the 26th an attorney who represents the family of the deceased released...

People digging clams and praying for health at beaches in Okinawa

People digging clams and praying for health at beaches in Okinawa

 

Many people visited sunny beaches on March 18, which is March 3 on the old lunar calendar, to hold an event called Hama-ori. Many children enjoyed clam digging on the beaches.

 

About 40 children, aged four to five, from Gajimaru nursery school in Mekaru, Naha City,...