March 16, 2017 Ryukyu Shimpo
On June 13 Akutagawa Prize-winning novelist Shun Medoruma’s full-length novel Me no Oku no Mori (Kage Shobo Publishing, 2009) will be published as an English paperback version of the book titled In the Woods of Memory. This is the first time a piece of Okinawan literature has been translated to a full-length English version as a stand-alone book.
Professor Takuma Sminkey of Okinawa International University handled translation of the novel. He was born...
April 5, 2016 Ryukyu Shimpo
In the United States, film director Reggie Life has made a movie version of author Tatsuhiro Oshiro’s 1965 novel Cocktail Party, the first literary work from Okinawa to win the Akutagawa Prize in 1967.
In 1995, Oshiro made a play version of the book set...
January 26, 2015 Ryukyu Shimpo
On January 25, the Okinawa Memorial Park recreated the Momoso–mono-mairi, one of the traditional rituals that used to be performed at Shuri Castle six times a year during the Ryukyu Kingdom period.
The ritual involves noro or female...
January 7, 2015 Ryukyu Shimpo
On January 7, non-government museum Fukutsukan in Naha, which displays documents relating to the late Okinawan prominent political figure Kamejiro Senaga , started the Iwanami Shoten publisher and Okinawa exhibit.
The exhibition displays a copy of Report...
November 27, 2014 Ryukyu Shimpo
On November 26, the Science Council of Japan (SCJ) proposed a plan to set up national natural history museums in Okinawa and Tohoku. The museums will be hubs for the study of natural history, and will continually collect and preserve artefacts such as fossil...
November 4, 2014 Tetsuo Oshiro of Ryukyu Shimpo
On November 2, at the Naha Civic Center, Japanese rock band The Boom performed its final show in Okinawa. The group’s song Shima Uta, which is about Okinawa, became a worldwide hit in the 1990s. Okinawa has been a special place...
July 30, 2014 Akiko Agarie of Ryukyu Shimpo
With the aim of deepening exchanges and bringing good cheer through Okinawan new dance culture, members of the Okinawa Yui Dance Promotion Council visited Mazhuancun in Xuzhou, Jiangsu province, China, on July 29. Including Chairman Kiyoshi Miyagi,...
July 21, 2014 Ryukyu Shimpo
Three calligraphers, including Houn Toyohira from Okinawa, have deepened regional ties through a cultural exchange with five artists representing Fujian, China at the Fujian and Okinawa Friendship Hall in Fujian Province, China. The program was held on July 11.
The...
July 5, 2014 Ryukyu Shimpo
On July 4, at the golden palace of the Shurijo Castle Park in Naha, a special exhibition titled “Beautiful…orisen-I, II of Ryukyu kingdom” began. It will be on until September 17. It is the first time that a special exhibition has been held...
June 9, 2014 Ryukyu Shimpo
A classical Ryukyuan performance organization, led by 82-year-old Japanese Living National Treasure Choichi Terukina, held a concert at the National Theatre of Japan in the Chiyoda district of Tokyo on June 8. In a rare event for the theatre, Terukina’s organization...
April 25, 2014 Ryukyu Shimpo
From April 25 to May 7, the Ryukyu Kingdom’s Royal Crown with an ornamental hairpin is on display at the Naha City Museum of History. Tatsuro Furutsuka, a curator of the museum, hopes many people will visit the exhibition. He said, “This little crown contains...
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