May 27, 2022 Ryukyu Shimpo
By Yosuke Anri
Prime Minister Fumio Kishida announced on May 26 that Naha Airport’s international travel routes, which have been suspended in full since March of 2020, would reopen sometime in mid-June. As part of the easing of border control measures implemented during the COVID-19 pandemic, the Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare is adding Naha and New Chitose Airports to the existing list of five airports such as Haneda that meet the...
May 16, 2022 Ryukyu Shimpo
By Teppei Ikeda
On May 15, which marks the 50th anniversary of when Okinawa was reverted to Japanese control in 1972, Okinawa Prefecture and the central Japanese government co-hosted the “50th Anniversary of the Okinawa Reversion Ceremony,”...
May 10, 2022 Ryukyu Shimpo
By Masakazu Umeda
On May 9, Governor Denny Tamaki gave a joint media interview at the Okinawa Prefectural Office to commemorate the 50th anniversary of Okinawa’s reversion to Japan. He remarked that while Okinawa accounts for 0.6%...
May 13, 2022 Ryukyu Shimpo
On the morning of May 13, the Okinawa Prefectural Assembly held a special session and unanimously approved a proposed written opinion and resolution related to the 50th anniversary of Okinawa’s reversion to Japan. The written opinion coincides with...
May 11, 2022 Ryukyu Shimpo
By Eriko Tamaki
To commemorate the 50th anniversary of Okinawa reverting to Japanese control, Okinawa Coca Cola Bottling (Urasoe, Yoshihiko Koyama, CEO), the company announced the re-release of a 50-year-old label for a special retro-design can....
May 10, 2022 Ryukyu Shimpo
By Teppei Ikeda
As the 50th anniversary of the reversion of Okinawa to Japan approaches, the Ryukyu Shimpo conducted a public opinion poll in collaboration with Mainichi Shimbun, which asked respondents in both Okinawa and throughout Japan their...
May 1, 2022 Ryukyu Shimpo
By Masatoshi Omine
With the 50th anniversary of the reversion of Okinawa to Japan approaching, the “Reversion 50th anniversary online citizens’ convention for a base-free and abundant Okinawa proud of peace – is the Yara proposal being realized?”...
April 29, 2022 Ryukyu Shimpo
Kunigami and Yoron – April 28 marked 70 years since the Treaty of San Francisco came into effect in 1952, separating Okinawa and the Amami Islands from Japan and placing Okinawa under the governance of the United States until reversion in 1972. On...
April 28, 2022 Ryukyu Shimpo
By Teppei Ikeda
Governor Denny Tamaki addressed the press on April 27, on the eve of the 70th anniversary of the Treaty of San Francisco (the peace treaty between the U.S. and Japan) coming into effect on April 28, 1952, where he stated his...
April 20, 2022 Ryukyu Shimpo
By Teppei Ikeda
On April 19, Okinawa Governor Denny Tamaki issued a comment about the prosecution of a U.S. Marine lance corporal for raping a woman, resulting in her bodily injury. Governor Tamaki clarified that the incident occurred in October...
April 21, 2022 Ryukyu Shimpo
By Masatoshi Omine
The executive committee board of governors for the “50-year reversion anniversary Okinawa citizens convention for a prosperous Okinawa proud of peace and free of military bases,” and event planned in large part by the...
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