August 24, 2015 Ryukyu Shimpo
Folk singer Misako Koja has written lyrics for a song, “Undercooled,” which is originally composed by musician Ryuichi Sakamoto as part of a new album called, “Mirukuyugafu”, to be released on October 7. Koja’s group, Unaigumi, sings the song, which is a prayer to calmly, kindly, yet powerfully, make the dream of a peaceful Okinawa and Japan, and a war-free world come true through the power of music and songs. Kazuya Sahara, Koja’s...
August 23, 2015 Ryukyu Shimpo
On August 22, Johan Galtung, world-renowned as ‘the father of peace studies’, came to Okinawa to speak at a symposium at Urasoe’s Tedako Hall, hosted by the Ryukyu Shimpo and New Diplomacy Initiative, titled, “70 Years After World War II, Galtung Speaks...
August 23, 2015 Ryukyu Shimpo Sakae Toiyama reports from Washington D.C.
Seventy-four prominent intellectuals from the United States, Australia and other countries published a joint statement urging Okinawa Governor Takeshi Onaga to cancel his predecessor Hirokazu Nakaima’s approval...
August 17, 2015 Ryukyu Shimpo
United Nations Special Rapporteur Victoria Tauli Corpuz, who reports to the United Nations Human Rights Council and UN General Assembly UNGA, met Okinawa Governor Takeshi Onaga at the Okinawa Prefectural Office around 9 a.m. on August 17. Corpuz said that she views...
August 12, 2015 Ryukyu Shimpo
On the afternoon of August 11, Paul Martin, the policy director of Peace Action, one of the United States’ largest peace organizations, visited the Okinawa Prefectural Assembly. Martin exchanged opinions on the U.S. military base issues in Okinawa with assembly...
August 16, 2015 Ryukyu Shimpo
On the morning of August 16, at a hotel in Nago City, Defense Minister Gen Nakatani and Nago Mayor Susumu Inamine held a meeting for the first time on the plan to relocate U.S. Marine Corps Air Station Futenma in Ginowan to Henoko. After the meeting, Nakatani and...
August 13, 2015 Ryukyu Shimpo
On August 12, officials from the Japanese government and the Okinawa Prefectural Government met at the Okinawa Prefectural Building to conduct the first in a series of intensive discussions to be held during a one-month period in which construction related to the...
August 11, 2015 Ryukyu Shimpo
On August 10, the governments of Japan and the United States held a joint committee and decided to allow the Okinawa Prefectural Government (OPG) to carry out a survey in the temporary restricted area in the shallow waters off Camp Schwab. The OPG had been requesting...
August 4, 2015 Ryukyu Shimpo
The Government has announced it will halt construction work of a new U.S. base in Henoko, Nago, which is part of the replacement of U.S. Marine Corps Air Station Futenma in Ginowan, and begin an intensive consultation with the Okinawa Prefectural Government. The...
August 1, 2015 Ryukyu Shimpo
A rally against new security bills that would change Japan’s pacifist constitution was held in the evening of July 31 at the public square in front of the Okinawa Prefectural Government Office in Naha. About 1,500 people, including citizens, Diet lawmakers, lawyers...
July 30, 2015 Ryukyu Shimpo
At a symposium held in the Chuo district of Tokyo, Okinawa Governor Takeshi Onaga talked about an advisory panel reporting to have found legal flaws in the former governor’s approval of landfill in Henoko, Nago. Onaga said, “I strongly believe that I...
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