August 2, 2019 Ryukyu Shimpo
Wakana Arakaki
On August 1, Okinawa Prefecture’s Nakagusuku Village Board of Education (BOE) held a Peace Education Workshop, which was intended for all faculty of public schools K-12 within the village.
While there are municipalities that hold workshops intended for newly appointed teachers and teachers in charge of peace education, it appears that Nakagusuku Village is the first to hold a workshop intended for all faculty.
Following...
July 19, 2019 Ryukyu Shimpo
BASE Okinawa Baseball Club is forming Okinawa’s first professional baseball team, and intends to join the NPB, Nippon Professional Baseball Organization.
The club’s president, Taishi Kobayashi and Executive Advisor Yasushi Tao, held a press conference...
Satoko Oka Norimatsu, Editor, The Asia-Pacific Journal: Japan Focus
“Here, our people demand that Japan and each nation of the world provide us an opportunity for self-determination. We hereby declare that if our demand is not met, we will attempt to achieve independence by taking free...
May 12, 2019 Ryukyu Shimpo
By Saki Yoshida
The Okinawa Defense Bureau (ODB) is advancing construction, such as building seawalls and depositing soil, to entrench the “outer moats” of the Futenma Replacement Facility (FRF). Photographs taken from drones have become a precious...
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