February 22, 2020 Ryukyu Shimpo
Okinawa City, Okinawa—ISSA, a member of the popular J-pop group DA PUMP, participated in Koza Night, a bar-hopping event organized by the city. ISSA was appointed night mayor (nightlife official) for Okinawa City in 2018 and while the singer is currently on tour, he took time out of his busy schedule to carry out his “official duties.” Koza Night will be held through Februray 29.
This year, 73 establishments in Okinawa City participated in Koza...
February 24, 2020 Ryukyu Shimpo
February 24 marked the passage of one year since the prefectural referendum showing Okinawans’ opposition to the land reclamation in Henoko, Nago as part of the relocation of U.S. Marine Corps Air Station Futenma in Ginowan. On February 23, four youth in their...
February 21, 2020 Ryukyu Shimpo
Igei, Kin is a prominent rice-growing region in Okinawa. In the Igei rice fields, cosmos flowers are in full bloom. The beautiful weather on February 20th brought people to the fields to be delighted by the colorful flowers swaying in the wind.
In December...
February 17, 2020 Ryukyu Shimpo
By Tamiko Suzuki
Yoshina Kishimoto, 39, a Naha City native, works at a Washington, D.C. patent law firm where she files patent applications for trademarks and designs.
Unlike Japan, the U.S. employs a unique patent agent system.
Owning design...
February 18, 2020 Ryukyu Shimpo
The Okinawa Defense Bureau has not been able to confirm that the ocean around Okinawa Island is inhabited by dugong through its dugong surveys being conducted in association with construction the Futenma Replacement Facility.
In November of last year,...
February 20, 2020 Ryukyus Shimpo
The Nansei shoto Industrial Advancement Center (NIAC, Mitsuru Omine, president) announced their estimation of the effects the corona virus would have on the Okinawan economy February 19.
They estimate that the effects of the virus would continue from...
February 17, 2020 Ryukyu Shimpo
Regarding the issue that data existed indicating the presence of “weak” ground deeper than 70 meters below the sea surface at the location of the new base construction in Henoko, Nago, Niigata University emeritus professor of geology Masaaki Tateishi and...
February 16, 2020 Ryukyu Shimpo Digital Edition
Chubu – The 28th 2020 Okinawa Marathon (co-hosted by Chubu Large Area Municipal Corp, the Ryukyu Shimpo Co. Ltd., Okinawa Television, the Japan Association of Athletics Federations (JAAF) Okinawa, and the Okinawa Comprehensive Athletic Park...
February 16, 2020 Ryukyu Shimpo
The event Ryukyu Buyo and Kumiodori was held on February 15 at Shurijo Castle Park in Naha City to celebrate the 300th anniversary of kumiodori (traditional Okinawan dance) and to offer prayers for the reconstruction of Shuri Castle.
The event was organized...
February 11, 2020 Ryukyu Shimpo
February 9 saw the start of joint excavation work by youth from Japan, South Korea, and Taiwan (organized by the Kenken Remains Excavation Joint Action Committee) on land in Kenken, Motobu where the remains of fourteen people, including two Koreans, were buried...
February 5, 2020 Ryukyu Shimpo
The spread of a pneumonia brought about by the corona virus has had an ever-increasing impact on the global economy, and it has cast a large shadow over the economy of Okinawa, which had previously been enjoying continued growth in their tourism industry.
Okinawa...
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