June 26, 2018 Ryukyu ShimpoThe harvest of the first crop of rice has started in Kin town, which is known as one of the foremost rice-producing areas in the prefecture.
Many farmers worked hard on harvesting golden rice swinging in the summer breeze under the strong sun in the rice paddies around town on June 25.
Sixty-seven-year-old Kennei Miyagi and two other farmers worked in the paddy in Yaka. Miyagi said, “The first crop has grown well and we have...
July 8, 2018 Ryukyu Shimpo
On July 7, the All-Okinawa Coalition Against Construction of the New Base in Henoko held a citizens’ rally calling for protection of the dugong and coral.
As for the Henoko base that is being constructed as a replacement facility...
July 5, 2018 Ryukyu Shimpo
On July 5, the Okinawa Prefectural Government announced that tourism revenue in FY2017 rose to 697.9 billion yen, an increase of 5.7 percent or 37.6 billion yen compared with FY2016.
This increase marked a record high for the fifth consecutive...
July 6, 2018 Ryukyu Shimpo online edition
On July 6 as part of construction in Henoko, Nago City of a replacement facility for Futenma Air Station, work began on installing covering blocks at the K4 seawall on the shore of Camp Schwab.
Mobile cranes were observed lifting...
July 4, 2018 Ryukyu Shimpo
Due to the wind and rain from Typhoon Number Seven that passed through the main island of Okinawa between late in the evening on July 1 and the morning on July 2, part of the castle wall of World Heritage site Nakijin Castle collapsed.
Specifically,...
July 3, 2018 Ryukyu Shimpo
It recently came to light that the Ministry of Defense (MOD) is considering locations in Okinawa for depots to store ammunition and other resources for Japan’s Ground Self-Defense Forces (JGSDF). Establishing such a depot at JGSDF...
June 21, 2018 Ryukyu Shimpo
The Okinawa Prefectural Government (OPG) has received notification from the Okinawa Defense Bureau (ODB) that depositing soil into the ocean will commence on August 17 as part of the construction of a replacement facility for Futenma Air...
July 1 2018 Ryukyu Shimpo
The Okinawa Convention & Visitors Bureau (OCVB), which promotes an initiative that invites students from abroad for educational travel, reported on June 30 that the number of students who came to Okinawa in 2017, as far as the OCVB know,...
June 28, 2018 Ryukyu Shimpo Digital Edition
Okinawa Prefectural Police announced on June 28 that a crime lab had confirmed that the two windows of a farm shed in an orchard in Sukuta, Nago, which were broken on June 21 by, “what appeared to be a fired...
June 29, 2018 Ryukyu Shimpo Digital Edition
On June 29, a memorial service for the 1959 Okinawa F-100 crash was hosted at the Miyamori Elementary School by the student council.
It has been 59 years since a jet fighter plane crash landed due to poor maintenance...
June 26, 2018 Ryukyu Shimpo
The peace poem by Rinko Sagara, a 14-year-old student in her third year at Minatogawa Junior High School in Urasoe City, has received a lot of attention on the internet.
She read her poem at the “Irei no hi” Memorial Ceremony...
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