July 08, 2019 Ryukyu Shimpo
Koza City, known as “the military-base town”, is a microcosm of Okinawa. Okinawa City Tourism and Promotion Association has worked to allure visitors locally and from afar, under its president, Takashi Shimabukuro.
The association began receiving class trips and group tours exactly a decade ago, and looked back on its track record at this 10-year milestone.
The number of group tours they receive grew over the years, surpassing 100 groups in...
June 13, 2019 Ryukyu Shimpo
On June 2, University of California, Berkley Professor Eriko Ikehara, who has been researching the history of the black community in Teruya, Okinawa, opened the Koza X MiXtopia Research Center in the Gintengai Shopping Arcade. On the same day, an opening ceremony...
May 30, 2019 Ryukyu Shimpo
By Hideaki Yoneda
Takashi Matsuda, 46, of the diving shop Relax Island in Aharen, Tokashiki Village confirmed that the coral of Aharen Beach spawned on the nights of May 22 and 23.
Only once a year, in May or June during the flood tide around the full...
May 24, 2019 Ryukyu Shimpo
(Itoman) On May 17, the Uruma Association in Solidarity with the Ainu People (representative: Shinya Mayonaka) held an Ainu memorial service (“Icharupa”) in front of the Nanboku Tower in Maehira, Itoman to honor the souls of Ainu soldiers and Okinawans who perished...
May 13, 2019 Ryukyu Shimpo
A record rainfall of a magnitude expected once every 50 years hit Yonaguni Island on May 13, which lost its intensity by afternoon, turning into a light shower. The Japan Meteorological Agency (JMA) is urging people to stay alert of mudslides triggered by the heavy...
May 6, 2019 Ryukyu Shimpo
(Zamami) On April 28, a “kajimaya” celebration to celebrate 97 years of life and a “michi-june” parade were held in Zamami.
Ume Miyahira, age 96, of Zamami was the protagonist of the kajimaya celebration. She was born on March 14, 1923.
Miyahira...
February 13, 2019 Ryukyu Shimpo
On the morning of February 7 off the coast at Atsuta Harbor in Kitanakagusuku Village, a parent and child pair of humpback whales were spotted jumping up from the surface of the water in a behavior known as “breaching.”
A...
February 10, 2019 Ryukyu Shimpo
(Iriomote Island, Taketomi) Around 4:00 p.m. on February 9, a rainbow exhibiting all seven colors distinctly appeared in Iriomote Island of Taketomi Town.
Residents and tourists gasped at the rainbow, which rose clearly all...
January 5, 2019 Ryukyu Shimpo
NAKIJIN—Coming-of-age Day is a national holiday celebrated annually on the second Monday of January.
Since ringing in the new year, municipalities all over Okinawa have hosted coming-of-age ceremonies for those who recently turned, or will...
December 22, 2018 Ryukyu Shimpo
The season for viewing the Southern Cross, a constellation that symbolizes the southern sky, has arrived in Okinawa’s Yaeyama region.
In the early morning on December 20, the first photograph this winter of the Southern Cross was taken...
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