August 29, 2019 Ryukyu Shimpo online edition
On August 29 it came to the Ryukyu Shimpo’s attention that around 5:30 p.m. on August 27 the plastic window of a CH-53 helicopter from Futenma Air Station fell from the craft about 8 kilometers above the East China Sea off Okinawa Island.
On August 29 the Okinawa Defense Bureau (ODB) contacted some municipalities concerning the incident, including the Okinawa Prefecture, Chatan Town, Okinawa City, and Kadena Town.
The U.S....
August 25, 2019 Ryukyu Shimpo
The 64th Annual Zento Eisa Festival took place August 22 through August 25, at various locations including the Koza Athletic Park Track and Field Stadium in Okinawa City.
The three-day event was hosted by the Zento Eisa Festival Planning and Executive Committee...
July 7, 2019 Ryukyu Shimpo
The Okinawa Convention & Visitors Bureau (OCVB, Yoshiro Shimoji, president) held the first 2019 meeting of the “Okinawa-wide Tourism Association Conference” at the Okinawa Karate Kaikan in Tomigusuku July 5, which brings together the tourism associations...
August 27, 2019 Ryukyu Shimpo
On August 26, association representative Seihan Nakazato and other members of the Miyakojima Residents’ Liaison Association Against the Missile Base visited the Okinawa prefectural office and the Okinawa Defense Bureau with a list of demands including cancellation...
August 22, 2019 Ryukyu Shimpo
On the afternoon of August 22, the Gathering for Remembering Takeshi Onaga was held at the Okinawa Karate Hall in Tomigusuku.
The gathering was planned around the 1-year anniversary of former Governor Onaga’s death, which occurred suddenly last August...
August 21, 2019 Ryukyu Shimpo
By Yuki Nakamura
Top South Korean airline, Korean Air, announced major changes to its Japanese routes on August 20.
Beginning September 29, Incheon-Naha flights (currently offered daily) will be temporarily curtailed to four flights a week, departing...
August 21, 2019 Ryukyu Shimpo
Onna – The Ryuei-ryu Ryuho-kai karate organization (Tsuguo Sakumoto, president) hosted the “International Peace Offering Demonstration” August 20 at the Onna Beach Park in Onna.
Approximately 1,000 Karate-ka from Okinawa, other parts of Japan, and...
August 21, 2019 Ryukyu Shimpo
On August 19 at Marine Corps Air Station (MCAS) Futenma in Ginowan City, Okinawa, U.S. military aircraft were repeatedly taking off and landing outside of the timeframe allowed by aircraft noise regulatory measures (the noise-prevention agreement), past 10:00 p.m....
August 19, 2019 Ryukyu Shimpo
Hanayo Oya reports from Spokane
On August 17, at the annual convention of the peace organization Veterans for Peace (VFP), which is currently being held in Spokane, Washington, members voted unanimously in favor of a proposed resolution opposing the construction...
August 19, 2019 Ryukyu Shimpo
The final rounds of the National High School Tanka Competition were held in Morioka city, Iwate prefecture—hometown of the poet, Takuboku Ishikawa. Tanka is a Japanese thirty-one-syllable poem, written in a single unbroken line. The Yukari Kojima Special Jury...
August 20, 2019 Ryukyu Shimpo
Yukito Toyama
Nagoya – Okinawa Governor Denny Tamaki brought his “Talk Caravan,” which is travelling Japan to share Okinawa’s position on new base construction in the Henoko neighborhood in Nago City and other national security issues, to a crowd...
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