August 28, 2018 Ryukyu Shimpo
By Taichi Hirayasu
“Martial Arts Tourism,” the new tourism initiative in Okinawa that hopes to attract Karate-ka from all over the world for things such as training, has been garnering a lot of attention.
There are reportedly upwards of 130 million Karate practitioners and fans globally, and Okinawa is hoping their call to the homeland of Karate will yield great economic results.
The prefecture has been pouring...
August 27, 2018 Ryukyu Shimpo
Special Correspondent Yukiyo Zaha reports from Minnesota
On August 25, the peace organization Veterans for Peace (VFP), comprised of former military personnel and supporters, held a plenary session of its 33rd annual convention...
August 22, 2018 Ryukyu Shimpo
“The young woman in the picture is me.” Some American university students were searching for a woman in a photograph published on the front page of the local news in Ryukyu Shimpo on August 15, which was from U.S. military-occupied Okinawa...
August 20, 2018 Ryukyu Shimpo
By correspondent Hanae Gushiken Higa
On August 9, a funeral and memorial service for Jane Serikaku was held at the Hawaii Okinawa Center on Oahu.
Serikaku served as the first female chair of the Hawaii Okinawa United Association...
August 24, 2018 Ryukyu Shimpo
The 50th Japanese National Student Association (JNSA) All-Japan English Speech Contest was recently won by Okinawan-born Marino Uezu, a second year student at Ochanomizu University.
Uezu took the top spot this year after coming close the previous...
August 24, 2018 Ryukyu Shimpo
By Chie Tome and Tomoki Yasutomi
On August 23, 15 letters addressed to Okinawans and Okinawan descendants living in Hawaii sent from a prisoner of war (POW) camp between 1945 and 1946 were discovered.
The letters were written by people...
August 20, 2018 Ryukyu Shimpo
On August 19 the traditional Great Tug-of-War of Henoko was held at the Henoko Ground.
The community split into East and West teams for tug-of-war, and the West team won with one victory and one draw.
This event, where Henoko Ward reseidents...
August 14, 2018 Ryukyu Shimpo
A memorial service for Okinawa governor Takeishi Onaga, who passed away at age 67 on August 8, was held at Daitenji temple in Naha August 13.
This is the first time that an Okinawan governor has died while still in office.
Approximately...
August 11, 2018 Ryukyu Shimpo
On August 10, Former Soviet Union leader Mikhail Gorbachev, who was a leading figure in Cold War and received the Nobel Peace Prize, dedicated a eulogy to the late Governor Takeshi Onaga.
In the eulogy, Gorbachev says, “The...
August 21, 2018 Ryukyu Shimpo
The Japanese government announced August 20 that if construction were to be suspended due to Okinawa Prefecture’s revocation of approval for land reclamation activity, which is part of the plan to relocate MCAS Futenma to the Henoko neighborhood...
August 15, 2018 Ryukyu Shimpo
On August 14, there were successive emergency landings of MV-22 Osprey vertical takeoff and landing aircraft from MCAS Futenma Air Station at Amami Airport in Kagoshima Prefecture and at Kadena Air Base.
The causes of these emergency landings...
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