May 3, 2013 Ryukyu Shimpo
On May 2, Chosei Tamaki, the head of the Move Through Nature of Yambaru Association, an environmental non-governmental organization, submitted a formal complaint to the Nago Police Station. He said there is a possibility that construction work is adversely affecting the rearing of the young of the noguchigera, a nationally protected species of woodpecker.
Work is being carried out on the Okuni Forest Road in Hama, Kunigami using heavy machinery...
April 29, 2013 Ryukyu Shimpo
In order to promote sweets made with locally produced taimo, at the end of March the Kin Town Commerce and Industry Association published a booklet called “Taamu Sweets.” They printed 10,000 copies and will give them away for free. The association...
April 30, 2013 Ryukyu Shimpo
On April 28, the eleventh festival commemorating the origin of Harii dragon boat racing was held in front of the Tomise-utaki in Tomigusuku Castle Park. Tomigusuku is said to be where harii dragon boat races started. At the ritual, Tomigusuku...
May 3, 2012 Ryukyu Shimpo
On April 27, the Okinawa Prefectural Peace Memorial Foundation held the Peace Memorial Carp Streamer Festival 2013 at the Okinawa Prefectural Peace Memorial Park in Mabuni, Itoman. The aim of the event was to let the young generation know about people’s experiences...
May 4, 2013 Ryukyu Shimpo
For two years, the Nagoya Public Aquarium and the Kuroshima Research Station have been carrying out a project for reintroducing hawksbill turtles into the wild. This is a project that involves breeding this variety of turtles, an endangered species, in the aquarium...
April 25, 2013 Ryukyu Shimpo
On April 19, the Ada district of Kunigami in northern Okinawa and the NPO Yambaru Regional Revitalization Support Center reported to Kunigami Mayor Hisakazu Miyagi on their plan to link their community with the presence of the Yambaru kuina. In October 2012 Ada...
April 23, 2013 Ryukyu Shimpo
With the Naha Harii or dragon boat races being held from May 3 to 5, Genei Agena, a 75-year-old resident of Itoman made three models of dragon boats. The models, which took two years to complete, were presented to the Naha Municipal Office, where they were...
April 25, 2013 Ryukyu Shimpo
In the night of April 22, Shincho Tawada, a 73-year-old resident of Shimashi, Ginowan, captured a venomous pit viper, which is also known in Okinawa as a habu. Tawada discovered the snake when it was in the act of swallowing a mongoose that he kept in a birdcage...
April 13 2013 Ryukyu Shimpo
At 3:00pm on April 12, three humpback whales were reported to be swimming in Nago Bay. They swam around the bay during for about 90 minutes, occasionally showing their tail fins above the surface of the water, and blowing water into the air. They were snuggling up...
April 15, 2013 Ryukyu Shimpo
Colorful ingredients add beauty to an otherwise stark stainless steel plate. Until about ten years ago, at ceremonial occasions held in Minami Daito Village it was the custom to serve food on ex-U.S. military stainless steel plates. Now using this as a tourism promotion,...
April 14, 2013 Ryukyu Shimpo
In Iwaki, Fukushima Prefecture, the tsunami that followed the Great East Japan Earthquake destroyed the port facilities and the radioactive leaks from the Fukushima-1 plant damaged the fishing grounds.
Kazuyoshi Suzuki, the head of the Iwaki Fisheries Cooperative,...
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