May 12, 2012 Ryukyu Shimpo
On May 3, the 15th Hatoma Island Music Festival was held in the plaza in front of the community center on Hatoma Island. About 1000 people from all over Japan visited the island that normally has a population of just 63 people.
In addition to famous musicians, Masaru Shimabukuro of BEGIN, Kiyosaku of Mongol800, pupils of the Hatoma Elementary and Junior High School, people of the Hatoma Folk Entertainment Preservation Society, and local residents performed....
May 18, 2012 Yukito Toyama of Ryukyu Shimpo
On May 10, Children’s Day, the Kitanakagusuku Elementary School served grilled common dolphinfish (Coryphaena hippurus) or manbika in Uchinaguchi in school lunches, cooking the fish in its original shape in the likeness of...
May 16, 2012 Ryukyu Shimpo
A family of blue rock thrush make an appearance picking food from a man’s hand in Midorimachi, Uruma.
Seiki Agena has been feeding them breadcrumbs from the middle of April. From this month they have come with their four little ones, and have started to take...
May 16, 2012 Ryukyu Shimpo
On May 4, at the Nakata Shokai in Sesoko, Motobu, the annual goat-fighting, or pijaorasai event was held. Goats from Sesoko Island and Katsuyama in Nago took part in 16 bouts. Surrounded by the smell of goat soup, they smashed their horns against each other...
May 9, 2012 Ryukyu Shimpo
To revitalize Henoko in Nago, the Henoko Light Music Club, an amateur music group of local musicians gave a lively performance. On April 28, four bands played folk songs at a restaurant in Henoko, with people enjoying the music in the hope that the performance will...
May 5, 2012 Ryukyu Shimpo
On April 28, at Miyakojima City, bridging work commenced on the Irabu-Ohashi between Irabu Island and Miyako Island. On the Irabu Island side of the bridge, the second-largest crane ship in Japan, which is capable of lifting and installing offshore structures up to...
April 30, 2012 Yugo Okita of Ryukyu Shimpo
Facebook, a social networking service, helped to solve a case in which a tortoise climbed through a fence and became lost.
The tortoise that went missing was Tobio, a female African spurred tortoise belonging to Kyuma Yasui, who works for Seasah-story,...
May 2, 2012 Ryukyu Shimpo
On April 29, at the Genka River in Nago, about 50 pupils of Genka Elementary School released approximately 1000 fry of the Ryukyu-ayu or Plecoglossus Altivelis Ryukyuensis (sweetfish). The pupils dropped the juvenile fish into the river from the bridge from their small...
April 26, 2012 Ryukyu Shimpo
On April 21, a Ryukyuan style wedding was held in Furusato En, a traditional Ryukyuan house registered as a Japanese cultural property located in the Okinawa Zoo and Museum in Okinawa City. The reception was then held at the World Heritage Site Nakagusuku Castle...
April 29, 2012 Ryukyu Shimpo
On April 23, the American Women’s Welfare Association (AWWA), which has made contributions to welfare facilities in Okinawa, held a 40th anniversary ceremony at Kadena Air Base, inviting people who have accepted their donations. The total for donations from the...
April 25, 2012 Yoko Morinaga, Correspondent of the Ryukyu Shimpo
On April 24, a bluefin tuna 2.4 meters (7.9 feet) long and weighing 271 kilograms (597.5 pounds), was landed on Kume Island. Many people came to see it at Gima Port.
Tomoyoshi Yohena, the captain of the Tsune-maru, and...
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