May 13, 2019 Ryukyu Shimpo
(Tokyo) On May 12, the Okinawa One-Tsubo Anti-War Landholders Association, Kanto Bloc held a protest near Shinjuku Station in Tokyo to re-think “May 15,” as this year marks 140 years since the 1879 Ryukyu annexation (the “Ryukyu Disposition”) and 47 years since Okinawa’s reversion to Japan in 1972. According to organizer estimates, 260 people gathered for a rally, and they marched around the station, chanting, “pushing bases on Okinawa is discrimination!”...
May 4, 2019 Ryukyu Shimpo
By Takaya Kinra
Isa, Ginowan City—Ansaburo Takushi, 76, emigrated to Brazil after the U.S. military seized his land, and later returned to Okinawa.
Takushi recently published an autobiography, titled “Ishihama Land Seizure and the Isahama Immigrants...
May 3, 2019 Ryukyu Shimpo
While Akino Miyagi was researching insects in Takae, Higashi Village in April this year, he found 71 unused U.S. blank cartridges on April 6 in the vicinity of what was the LZ-FBJ helipad on returned Northern Training Area (NTA) land in Kunigami Village.
Miyagi...
May 3, 2019 Ryukyu Shimpo
On May 2 the U.S. military conducted parachute drop training over the ocean at Tsukenjima Training Area in Uruma City.
In the exercise, nine people in total dropped out of an MC-130 special mission aircraft.
This is the second such training conducted...
April 30, 2019 Ryukyu Shimpo
On April 29 a rally met at the Bunkyo Civic Center in Tokyo to protest the presence of the U.S. bases and military personnel in Okinawa.
The rally was held in observation of the third anniversary of the rape and murder committed by a former U.S. Marine....
May 1, 2019 Ryukyu Shimpo
On April 30, the Okinawa Prefectural Museum & Art Museum started their “New Collection Exhibition.”
The exhibition displays about 250 items that were donated or bought in the last year.
The items include human bones of the Minatogawa people,...
April 28, 2019 Ryukyu Shimpo
By Yoshinori Takada
On April 30, the emperor will abdicate, marking the end of the Heisei era. The emperor has visited Okinawa eleven times from the time he was crown prince to the present. Both the emperor and empress have visited Okinawa, the only place...
April 24, 2019 Ryukyu Shimpo
By Chie Tome
On April 23 it came to light that a water quality study conducted last year by the Okinawa Prefectural Enterprise Bureau in the vicinity of Kadena Air Base detected high concentrations of perfluorooctane sulfonate (PFOS) and perfluorooctanoic...
April 23, 2019 Ryukyu Shimpo
By Yoshinori Takada
There have been countless incidents of problems relating to relationships with and marriages to U.S. military personnel and base workers.
In 2018, 87 people consulted with Women’s Pride, an NPO that provides consultation relating...
April 20, 2019 Ryukyu Shimpo
A part of the ongoing dispute over new U.S. military base construction in the Henoko neighborhood of Nago, Okinawa, a group of 16 anti-base residents who live in the area where land reclamation work is ongoing just off the coast of Henoko have filed a lawsuit against...
April 17, 2019 Ryukyu Shimpo
The ruling for the appeal in the 2nd Futenma noise pollution lawsuit, in which the 3,415 residents who live in the area around MCAS Futenma filed suit seeking a substantive flight stoppage as well as compensation for both past and future damage, was handed down...
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