May 11, 2022 Ryukyu Shimpo
By Yukito Toyama
Tourism industry operators, who have received a serious blow to their operations due to commercial travel restrictions in light of the spread of the novel coronavirus, held a rally on May 10 in the plaza in front of the Prefectural Office, where 300 or more people gathered to request cooperation subsidies and fair COVID assistance measures for the tourism industry. Leading up to May 10, more than 3,000 people’s signatures were collected...
May 10, 2022 Ryukyu Shimpo
By Teppei Ikeda
As the 50th anniversary of the reversion of Okinawa to Japan approaches, the Ryukyu Shimpo conducted a public opinion poll in collaboration with Mainichi Shimbun, which asked respondents in both Okinawa and throughout Japan their...
May 3, 2022 Ryukyu Shimpo
By Chie Tome
On April 29, Kyan Shoten, a general wholesaler and retailer of awamori located in Naha City (president Yoshinori Kyan), released a special edition mini awamori set to commemorate the 50th anniversary of Okinawa’s reversion to Japan....
May 6, 2022 Ryukyu Shimpo
By Ayaka Kanamori
On May 5, as Golden Week came to a close, Naha Airport was busy with tourists returning home. For the first time in three years, a state of emergency was not in effect. The rainy season started on May 4, but crowds of tourists...
May 4, 2022 Ryukyu Shimpo
The Japan Meteorological Agency (JMA), Okinawa Regional Headquarters, announced the morning of May 4 that the Okinawa region appeared to have entered the rainy season. This year was six days earlier than the average starting day, and one day earlier than...
May 1, 2022 Ryukyu Shimpo
By Masatoshi Omine
With the 50th anniversary of the reversion of Okinawa to Japan approaching, the “Reversion 50th anniversary online citizens’ convention for a base-free and abundant Okinawa proud of peace – is the Yara proposal being realized?”...
April 29, 2022 Ryukyu Shimpo
Kunigami and Yoron – April 28 marked 70 years since the Treaty of San Francisco came into effect in 1952, separating Okinawa and the Amami Islands from Japan and placing Okinawa under the governance of the United States until reversion in 1972. On...
April 29, 2022, Ryukyu Shimpo
By Kenta Masuda
On April 28, locals of Yorontou island, Kagoshima Prefecture, commemorated the 50th anniversary of the reversion of Okinawa to Japan with a large bonfire and sent their thoughts across the ocean to Kunigami Village, Okinawa....
April 28, 2022 Ryukyu Shimpo
By Teppei Ikeda
Governor Denny Tamaki addressed the press on April 27, on the eve of the 70th anniversary of the Treaty of San Francisco (the peace treaty between the U.S. and Japan) coming into effect on April 28, 1952, where he stated his...
April 28, 2022 Ryukyu Shimpo
April 28 marked six years since the incident in 2016 in which a woman out walking in the central region of Okinawa Island was murdered by a civilian man in U.S. military employ who formerly belonged to the Marine Corps. People have come to mourn the...
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