Archive for May, 2018
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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...
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...
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,...