April 24, 2021 Ryukyu Shimpo
By Megumi Kiyomura
On March 29, which is “Hinoene” in February of the lunar calendar, the traditional ceremony “Upuri” was held on the shore in Tarama Village. The “nissaigassa” in charge of ritual ceremonies and local “aza” district officials placed insect pests on an “insect boat” and sank them into the sea while praying for a bountiful harvest.
Upuri is a ceremony for protection against insect...
April 24, 2021 Ryukyu Shimpo
By Yukari Miyazawa
Okinoerabujima – The sakumadata tomb cluster’s tomb no. 7 ruins, which was discovered in Otsukan in China, Kagoshima in June last year, was confirmed to be the oldest rock-shelter tomb found in the Amami islands...
April 22, 2021 Ryukyu Shimpo
There is currently a plan to use soil from the southern part of Okinawa Island, where the Battle of Okinawa was fought, in the construction of the Futenma Replacement Facility (FRF) in Henoko, Nago City. As concerns this plan, on April 21 Takamatsu...
April 22, 2021 Ryukyu Shimpo
On April 21, a bottlenose dolphin was born at Motobu Genki Village in Hamamoto, Motobu. It has been 2 years since a baby dolphin was born there. The birth was the result of artificial insemination. The father is a dolphin named Luster at...
April 22, 2021 Ryukyu Shimpo
Okinawa – Asia Child Support (ACS, Tetsuo Ikema, Director), a non-profit organization based in Okinawa City, recently opened a preschool in Okinawa. Construction was delayed due to the Covid-19 pandemic; however, the school was able to start welcoming students...
April 23, 2021 Ryukyu Shimpo
The Bashofu Orimono Kobou in Ogimi Village, Okinawa, an artisan textile studio specialized in the traditional Okinawan bashofu fabric, was awarded the 14th Kurashiki Mingeikan Award. The Kurashiki Mingeikan, a folk art museum located in Kurashiki City,...
April 20, 2021 Ryukyu Shimpo
By Yoko Takaesu
Aspiring to bring back the beautiful culture of clothing and accessories from the Ryukyu Kingdom era, Kyoko Shukumine, age 84, textile master of Shuri, is working to reproduce clothing, sashes, and other textile arts from the...
April 18, 2021 Ryukyu Shimpo
The Palette Kumoji 30th anniversary lecture series took place at the Palette Civic Theater in Naha April 17, and University of the Ryukyus emeritus professor and historian Kurayoshi Takara gave a lecture titled “Shuri Castle, now and in the past.”...
April 15, 2021 Ryukyu Shimpo
Hamauri, which is the third day of the third month in the traditional lunar calendar and landed on April 14 this year, families all over Okinawa could be seen enjoying themselves down at the beach digging for shellfish at low tide. Around the mid-sea...
April 16, 2021 Ryukyu Shimpo
On April 15, the prefectural assembly (chaired by Noboru Akamine) opened an extraordinary meeting and unanimously passed a written opinion to request that soil, in which are mixed the remains of the war dead from the Battle of Okinawa, not be used...
April 14, 2021 Ryukyu Shimpo
Three university students started Urgent Action (Kinkyu Action), a public pressure campaign on the Japanese government to block a soil collecting project in southern Okinawa, where remains of the war dead from the Battle of Okinawa lay. Additionally, the campaign...
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