March 28, 2013 Maki Nagamine of Ryukyu Shimpo
The Ryukyu Eco Project, a farming corporation in Nago, is increasing its production of the lesser yam, which is called kuga-imo in the Okinawan dialect. The yam is rich in nutrition, but because of the difficulty in harvesting and distributing it its annual production volume in the prefecture is less than ten tons. This tropical plant has been eaten for more than a thousand years only in Okinawa. In its first year of production, the...
March 28, 2013 Ryukyu Shimpo
On March 27, the Township of Ryukyu Awamori-Sake, a cooperative consisting of 43 brewing companies, held the opening ceremony for an awamori storehouse at the International Logistics and Industry Accumulation Area in Uruma. The Ryukyu Kusu...
March 29, 2013 Ryukyu Shimpo
The Okinawa Prefectural Government (OPG) hopes to increase the number of foreign tourists visiting Okinawa from the current level of 380000 per year to about two million by 2021. As a step in that direction, on March 28 at a press conference held at the Naha Terrace...
March 12, 2013 Ryukyu Shimpo
Real estate management company Ichigo Group Holdings will construct an eight-megawatt solar power plant on what used to be the Yukari Farm in Futami, Nago.
This will be the biggest solar plant in Okinawa, and the largest owned by the company in Japan. Ichigo...
March 12, 2013 Ryukyu Shimpo
Air China International has decided that on July 3 it will resume flights between Beijing and Naha that have been suspended since last October. The airline will operate this return service twice a week on Wednesday and Saturday. The company had canceled the service...
March 5, 2013 Ryukyu Shimpo
On February 28, at a restaurant in Naha, the Okinawa Prefectural Government held a tasting event to promote local goat meat and cuisine. This is a part of the 2012 Okinawa Goat Raising and Consumption Promotion Project.
About 40 people involved in the restaurant...
February 16, 2012 Teppei Ikeda of Ryukyu Shimpo
On February 15, All Nippon Airways (ANA) asked the Okinawa Prefectural Government (OPG) to build a facility that maintains aircraft at Naha Airport.
According to those involved within the OPG, Japan Transocean Air (JTA), which has a maintenance...
February 7, 2013 Maki Nagamine of Ryukyu Shimpo
Domestic production of pumpkins has started to revive in Okinawa. Since the 1980s, shipping volume of pumpkins from Okinawa decreased after low price pumpkins were imported in increasing quantities, but according to statistics released by JA Okinawa,...
February 9, 2013 Ryukyu Shimpo
On February 8, an Asiana Airlines charter flight carrying 179 tourists arrived from Korea at Miyako Airport in Miyako-jima. This is the first time that Asiana Airlines has offered the flight between Seoul and Miyako-jima. People from the Miyako-jima Tourism Association...
February 2, 2013 Ryukyu Shimpo
On February 1, at the Ecopit garage in Hirara on Miyako-jima, the local municipal office displayed a prototype small electric vehicle (EV) that they have produced in conjunction with local companies. The municipal office is conducting proving trials in order to...
January 17, 2013 Ryukyu Shimpo
The Okinawa Flour Milling Co. is expanding its business in Asia for the first time. They will be selling a flour and brown sugar powder mix in Hong Kong and Taiwan this year. On January 16, CEO Ichiro Takeuchi said that he can see an end ahead for expansion...
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