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10,000 eisa dancers put together energetic performance

10,000 eisa dancers put together energetic performance

 

August 6, 2018 Ryukyu Shimpo

 

The 24th Ten Thousand Person Eisa Dance Parade was held at the Kokusai Street in Naha City in the afternoon on August 5.

With this year’s theme, “traditional versus creative,” 4,000 performers from 62 groups including youth groups from communities and individual groups shared energetic performances to entertain the 78,000-person audience from in and out of Okinawa.

The performers combined traditional eisa and popular...

　

Okinawa Prefecture revokes land reclamation approval for Futenma replacement facility, will return to court with central government

Okinawa Prefecture revokes land reclamation approval for Futenma replacement facility, will return to court with central government

August 31, 2018 Ryukyu Shimpo

 

Regarding the relocation of the U.S. Marine Corps Futenma Air Station in Ginowan City to Henoko, Nago City, on the afternoon of August 31 the Okinawa prefectural government revoked the land reclamation approval given by Governor Takeshi Onaga’s...