April 25, 2012
On April 22, the 2nd Sailing Sabani Race off Yambaru, organized by the Fukaki Sabani, was held. The event is designed to continue on the tradition of the sabani, an Okinawan wooden sailboat, and to try to make it into a new feature to aid the revitalization of the area.
Eighteen sabani boats with a total of about 120 people on board competed in a 20-kilometer course between Nabee-Beach in the Onna Seaside Civil Park and the Nago...
April 14, 2012 Ryukyu Shimpo
Eighty-three year-old Zenryo Iha released a photo collection entitled, “Kouri Bridge, the road to my hometown,” which chronicles the construction of the Kouri and Warumi bridges. The book features 80 photographs taken by Iha and 15 essays written by the children...
April 19, 2012 Ryukyu Shimpo
Twenty-five years have passed since Tetsuhiro Hokama, president of the Okinawa Gojuryu Kenshi Kai Karatedo Kobudo Association, opened a private karate museum in Nishihara. The museum exhibits more than 400 items related to Okinawan karate. Hokama diligently collected...
April 13, 2012 Correspondent Yukito Kinjo of the Ryukyu Shimpo
Now is the wheat harvest season on Ie Island, the only place where wheat is grown in Okinawa. The season started from the end of March, and goes through until the beginning of May. Waves of golden wheat sway in the wind under the...
April 16, 2012 Kyoko Agarie Correspondent of the Ryukyu Shimpo
Attracted by the nature and people of Izena, three young women from Shiga Prefecture, Chigusa Akata, Kaho Isobe, and Miki Kojima, who had come to the island on a school trip when they were in their second year of high school, visited...
April 10, 2012 Correspondent Yoshikatsu Miyagi of the Ryukyu Shimpo
From April to October, 2012, the Nago Tourism Association and the Japan Travel Bureau (JTB) Okinawa will run a town tour guide project in Nago in the north of Okinawa. On April 3, the first four tourists on this project, parents...
April 8, 2012 by Hideaki Yoneda, correspondent of Ryukyu Shimpo
Ryuji and Akiko Sakata, a couple who moved to Tokashiki from Kudaka in 2007, ran the Warabiya juku as the first domestic study program in Tokashiki, finished accepting students in 2011. They then moved to Ogimi in northern Okinawa...
April 6, 2012 Ryukyu Shimpo
In the afternoon of April 5, photographs were taken of an Okinawa rail, a national natural treasure, looking for food on an old road in the Yambaru forest in the northern part of Okinawa. Wild birds in the Yambaru forest are now entering their mating season. The...
April 13, 2012 Hideaki Yoneda, correspondent of the Ryukyu Shimpo
With the beginning of a new academic year, on April 5, high schools, colleges, technical schools and companies in Okinawa commenced induction courses at the National Okinawa Youth Friendship Center in Tokashiki.
A total...
April 10, 2012
On April 5, at Seragaki in Onna, a couple from Macao held an underwater marriage ceremony in Okinawa, a place they love dearly. The bride and groom, Wong Si Wai and Leong Lap Chong both said, “It was just fantastic!”
Wearing a wedding dress and tuxedo over their wet...
April 11, 2012 Ryukyu Shimpo
On April 6, a huge sign stating, “The town with the biggest Taco Rice in the world” was placed in Kin, with mayor Tsuyoshi Gibu declaring the town to be the “town of taco rice.” Taco rice was thought up in Parlor Senri in the restaurant area called Shinkaichi...
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