March 24, 2021 Ryukyu Shimpo
Yomitan – Around eight tons of spangled emperor fish called taman, which is now in season, was brought into Toya Fishing Port in Yomitan on March 23. Along with akajin grouper, akamachi snapper, and makubu blackspot tuskfish, taman is among the highest class of fish that can be caught in Okinawa. “We have rarely seen a haul this size in recent years,” said an excited representative from the Yomitan...
March 26, 2021 Ryukyu Shimpo
On March 25, due to being covered by a high-pressure system, sunny weather spread to regions throughout Okinawa. This heralds in the season for harvesting lettuce in Itoman City.
In Maehira, Itoman City, harvesting work is very busy in 45-year-old...
March 25, 2021 Ryukyu Shimpo
Hideki Tatemoto, a professor at the University of the Ryukyus Faculty of Agriculture, announced on March 24 that he developed a technology to supply frozen purebred-Agu pig sperm to industry. The Agu is an indigenous Okinawan pig breed restored to...
March 25, 2021 Ryukyu Shimpo
On March 24, 245 public elementary and junior high schools in Okinawa held closing ceremonies to mark the end of the school year. At Nakagusuku Minami Elementary School in Nakagusuku, measures to prevent the spread of Covid-19 meant that the entire...
March 23, 2021 Ryukyu Shimpo
(Urasoe) On March 23, at its final regular meeting in March, the Urasoe City Council (Chairperson: Chobun Goeku) unanimously passed the “Ordinance for Achieving a Society that Honors Sexual Diversity” bill, which includes introduction of a “partnership...
March 22, 2021 Ryukyu Shimpo
By Fumie Asato
Ogimi – A female great Mormon butterfly in its rare alcanor form (characterized by the tails on the end of the wings) was spotted fluttering around Ogimi March 6. Great Mormons are one of the largest butterflies in...
March 18, 2021 Ryukyu Shimpo
Representatives from five organizations including the Okinawa Prefectural government and the Okinawa Labor Bureau (OLB) signed a “comprehensive cooperation agreement” the morning of March 18, to resolve issues and promote effective policy for improving...
March 19, 2021 Ryukyu Shimpo
By Erina Ishii
In Hong Kong, demand for Okinawan shikuwasa (Okinawa lime) has exploded since the end of last year. 478COMPANY is a Tomigusuku-based company that supplies shikuwasa juice to Hong Kong. The company’s exports in 2020 grew twentyfold...
March 13, 2021 Ryukyu Shimpo
Under the management of General Manager Kaoru Honda, the resort hotel Hoshinoya Taketomi-jima in Taketomi-Cho, Taketomi Island, recently started supplying its drinking water by desalinating seawater. The hotel hopes to reduce plastic bottle waste,...
March 18, 2021 Ryukyu Shimpo
Due to aircraft noise and a foul odor coming from Kadena Air Base and increasing in severity on and after March 15, Mayor Hiroshi Toyama of Kadena Town visited Director General Toshinori Tanaka of the Okinawa Defense Bureau at said Bureau on March...
March 16 2021 Ryukyu Shimpo
We must take full advantage of this letter. The Overseas Base Realignment and Closure Coalition, a group of U.S. intellectuals, former officials, and others, published a letter addressed to President Biden calling for closure of U.S. military bases...
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