May 9, 2018 Ryukyu Shimpo
On May 8 the International Short Film Festival Oberhausen was held in Oberhausen, Germany.
There, artist and filmmaker Chikako Yamashiro from Naha City, Okinawa was awarded the Zonta Prize for female filmmakers, for her film Mud Man (Tsuchi no Hito).
The film festival was established in 1954 and over its 64 instances it has come to be a historic festival.
This year about 7,300 works were entered in the festival.
Yamashiro said,...
Yaese Lion Dance group, which consists of traditional-arts performers in Yaese town, visited Hue City in Vietnam to participate Hue Festival 2018, which opened on April 27.
The group, led by Takeshi Kamiya, visited the Hue Central Hospital to hold a workshop with Thai Nghi Duong Lion dance...
April 18, 2018 Ryukyu Shimpo
The Jeju Museum of Art on Jeju Island off the southern coast of South Korea began their “Post Trauma Exhibit” March 31 to mark the 70th anniversary of the “Jeju Uprising,” a revolt that resulted in the deaths of tens of thousands of island residents at the...
March 26, 2018 Ryukyu Shimpo
The NS Ryukyuan Ballet Company led by Director Sayo Nagasaki held its first overseas performance at the Smithsonian American Art Museum in Washington D.C. The group performed an original ballet that incorporates various factors such as...
February 9, 2018 Ryukyu Shimpo
Recently it came to light that the Yomei Bunko Foundation of Kyoto has been preserving some artifacts relating to the Ryukyu Kingdom for about 300 years.
Among these items are a particular sake cup (called the Kōrinkaihai)...
February 2, 2018 Ryukyu Shimpo
By Sanemichi Kinjo
Actress and on-screen personality Riria, who works in Taiwan and is a native of Ishigaki Island in Okinawa, recently visited the Ryukyu Shimpo offices to talk about being a celebrity in Taiwan and share her thoughts on Okinawa. “I want...
January 4, 2018 Ryukyu Shimpo
After drawing a lot of attention for a comedy routine on “The Manzai 2017,”...
December 17, 2017 Ryukyu Shimpo
A symposium for brainstorming policies to preserve and pass down traditional...
November 10, 2017 Ryukyu Shimpo
The British Museum in England, the world’s largest museum, has acquired two ceramic works created by Haruhiko Kaneko, 56, owner of the well-renowned Ishigaki-yaki Pottery Studio in Ishigaki. The two pieces are the “Yohen-taihi tenmoku tea bowl”...
October 24, 2017 Ryukyu Shimpo
The 8th annual Futaro Yamada literary award ceremony was held on October 23 at a hotel in Tokyo.
Historia (Kadokawa), written by 47-year old novelist Eiichi Ikegami from Naha City, was selected as the winner.
It...
October 6, 2017 by Ryukyu Shimpo
The Okinawa Prefectural Peace Memorial Museum opened their special exhibit, “Okinawan Theater and a World at War – Dreamlike figures of Okinawa,” on October 5 in Itoman.
Using items such as newspaper articles, photographs,...
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