September 1, 2012 Ryukyu Shimpo
On September 1, at Tancha in Onna, the Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology (OIST) celebrated its official opening. It was established in order to contribute to the promotion of Okinawa’s self-sustaining development as well as to the advancement of world-class science and technology. Operations started from September 3 and on September 6 the enrollment ceremony took place for a total of 34 students from 18 countries. Classes start from September...
August 6, 2012 Ryukyu Shimpo
An engineer team from Modena in Italy that participated in the World Solar Challenge race held in October 2011 in Australia presented a model car to Team Okinawa, the first Okinawan team to take part in the world’s largest solar-powered car race. The model car...
August 8, 2012 Ryukyu Shimpo
On August 7, in Naha branch of the Mizuho Bank held what they called a Children’s Summer School featuring enjoyable quizzes and games to give 12 elementary school and junior high school pupils an idea of what working in a bank is like. The children each handled...
July 15, 2012 Takahiro Shinjo, Correspondent of the Ryukyu Shimpo
On June 27, in an art class at Kaneshi Elementary School in Nakijin, 26 sixth-grade pupils took part in a special workshop, to create models of their dream shop. The children designed a variety of shops for motorcycles, cars,...
July 18, 2012 Kenta Masuda of Ryukyu Shimpo
Sol-T-shine, a dance group from the Tida Dance Studio in Chatan, gained entry to the World Hip-Hop Championship 2012 to be held on August 1 in Las Vegas, which is known as the dance Olympics.
The group consists of eight elementary school and...
July 13, 2012 Ryukyu Shimpo
Ten students majoring in horticultural engineering at Hokubu Agricultural High School, have succeeded in sterile cultivation of the Easter lily. They launched the project last year with the aim of increasing the numbers of this flower that symbolizes Nago but is...
June 19, 2012 Ryukyu Shimpo
On June 15, at Kin Municipal Kagei Elementary School, which used to be the Yaka Prison Camp, where Japanese prisoners of war were accommodated during the Battle of Okinawa, the Yakabushi song written by the POWs was performed at a gathering held for peace...
May 11, 2012 Ryukyu Shimpo
On the occasion of the 40th anniversary of the reversion of Okinawa, fifth-grade students of the Okinawa AMICUS International published a school newspaper.
Twenty-seven students worked on the paper from mid-April and draw a comparison between Okinawa in the...
May 8, 2012 Ryukyu Shimpo
On May 7, 80 students from Hikone City Nishi Junior High School in Shiga Prefecture visited the Okinawa Prefectural Library on a school trip and saw the original lyrics of their school song written by a poet from Okinawa, Baku Yamanokuchi.
The 27 page-long...
April 23, 2012 Ryukyu Shimpo
On April 22, to mark the 40th anniversary of Okinawa’s reversion to Japanese sovereignty, the Okinawa Education Office sent prefectural high schools a written request that students deepen their knowledge of Okinawa around the time of the reversion, and about...
April 18, 2012 Correspondent Kyoko Agarie of the Ryukyu Shimpo
Twenty-three first-year junior high school students placed 29 haiku stone tables at various locations around Izena Island. The haiku poems were written as part of a project with their homeroom teacher Ikuko Ueno when they were second-grade...
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