January 12, 2020 Ryukyu Shimpo
On January 4, prior to felling the “Gajimaru of Oura Asagi Garden”, which is a gajumaru tree (Ficus microcarpa) that has aged more than 120 years, a memorial service was held at Asagi Garden (in the public square in front of the public hall) in Oura Ward, Nago City to express gratitude to the tree.
Ward residents and former ward residents gathered to offer incense burning, reminisce about the gajumaru tree, and express gratitude to it.
This...
January 17, 2020 Ryukyu Shimpo
Governor Denny Tamaki announced during a regular press conference on January 16 that the 7th World Uchinanchu Festival is planned to be held October 28-31, 2021.
The governor encouraged world-wide participation and support: “the festival unites uchinanchus...
January 17, 2020 Ryukyu Shimpo
Tokyo – On January 15, JA Okinawa held a tasting and promotional event in Tokyo to increase awareness of Japan’s earliest watermelons, Nakijin watermelons, outside of Okinawa.
Workers promoted and provided tastings of winter watermelons to consumers,...
January 17, 2020 Ryukyu Shimpo
Takaya Kinra
Yamagata – In an exchange program between community organizations in Chubu, Okinawa and Mogami, Yamagata, 68 5th-graders from 9 communities in central Okinawa had a chance to play in the snow in Yamagata.
For most of the children,...
January 14, 2020 Ryukyu Shimpo
Ryota Shimabukuro
Okinawa Prefecture, which is trying to get four of their islands, Amami Oshima, Tokunoshima, the northern part of Okinawa’s main island, and Iriomote, will implement a policy that limits the number of tourists who can enter the town of...
January 8, 2020 Ryukyu Shimpo
On January 7, the Kuroshio Biological Research Institute announced it discovered a new jellyfish species among the specimen they collected in Northern Okinawa and named it Olindias deigo (Japanese: Deigo-hanagasa-kurage).
It is the first time in 114 years...
January 9, 2020 Ryukyu Shimpo
Motobu and Onna – On January 8th, it was announced that the Okinawa Churashima Foundation and Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology Graduate University (OIST) had determined that the goby specimen discovered by the foundation in the deep sea around Onna...
January 6, 2020 Ryukyu Shimpo
On the morning of January 6, when government offices start work, Okinawa Governor Denny Tamaki delivered a New Year’s greeting broadcast from the governor’s reception office in the Prefectural Office.
In a message to government workers, he said,...
January 8, 2020 Ryukyu Shimpo
A collaboration of research teams from organizations that include private businesses, the University of the Ryukyus, and Nagasaki University launched a project to survey ocean garbage coming ashore using satellites, drones, and fixed cameras on January 7.
The...
January 9, 2020 Ryukyu Shimpo
Pork dishes are indispensable to Okinawan cuisine—Okinawa soba, san-mai niku (braised pork belly), tebichi (stewed pork feet), soki-jiru (pork spare ribs soup) and mimiga (crunchy pig’s ear), to name a few.
The news of Classical Swine Fever (CSF),...
January 6, 2020 Ryukyu Shimpo
A charity concert was held on Jan. 5 by actress Sayuri Yoshinaga and musician Ryuichi Sakamoto at the Okinawa Convention Center Theater in Ginowan City.
Sakamoto’s sophisticated piano performance and Yoshinaga’s poetry reading, which spoke to the preciousness...
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