November 10, 2020 Ryukyu Shimpo
By Kumiko Yoshihara
“I wanted to share my story to encourage sick and hospitalized kids going through a difficult time”—17-year-old Kimika Katayama, a third-year student at Okinawa Shogaku High School, explained her motivation for writing about her battle with acute lymphatic leukemia. Katayama won the Japan Registered Clinical Laboratories Association’s 21st essay contest titled “What Testing Taught Me,” and placed first in the student...
November 3, 2020 Ryukyu Shimpo
By Ryota Shimabukuro
Recently, a photograph taken by photographer Fumio Tsukamoto, of Tokyo, in 1960 was added to the signboard in front of a large Akagi tree in Shuri Castle Park in Naha, the withered trunk of which remained even after being ravaged during...
October 31, 2020 Ryukyu Shimpo
The Shurijo Castle Festival, which reenacts the Ryukyu Kingdom’s magnificent ceremonies and traditions, was canceled last year after a fire destroyed the Shurijo Castle’s main hall. This year, the festival
(organized by its executive committee) opened...
October 30, 2020 Ryukyu Shimpo
October 30 is “Global Uchinanchu Day.” The Global Uchinanchu Center Establishment Support Committee (Choko Takayama, Takeshi Miki, and Seishin Oyama, joint representatives), which is looking to establish a location where Uchinanchu from all over the world...
October 29, 2020 Ryukyu Shimpo
By October 28, it was clear that donations to rebuild Shuri Castle, which burned down in October of last year, had exceeded 5 billion yen. As of October 28, total donations to Okinawa Prefecture, Naha City, and the Okinawa Churashima Foundation amounted to at...
October 27, 2020 Ryukyu Shimpo
Okinawa Prefecture continues to see new cases of COVID-19 on the rise, recording the largest number of new cases per 100,000 people since October 3, the worst for all prefectures in Japan. If the spread of the virus continues at its current pace, there is a fear...
October 20, 2020 Ryukyu Shimpo
Recently, University of Tokyo Atmosphere and Ocean Research Institute associate professor Chuya Shinzato, Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology Graduate University (OIST) professor Noriyuki Sato, and others decoded the genome of 18 species of coral in the...
October 10, 2020 Ryukyu Shimpo
From October 31 to November 3, the Shuri Castle Festival (organizer: Shuri Castle Festival Steering Committee) will be held for four days at a reduced scale. The festival was cancelled last year while ongoing because of the fire in the main hall and other parts...
October 13, 2020 Ryukyu Shimpo
Onna – Onna Village is working on implementing international environmental guidelines for diving from an organization called Green Fins in an effort to protect the coral reefs. According to the village, so far there are no examples of the guidelines being implemented...
October 4, 2020 Ryukyu Shimpo
(Henoko Issue Reporting Team) On October 3, citizens opposed to the new base construction in Henoko, Nago in conjunction with the relocation of U.S. Marine Corps Air Station Futenma held the gathering “Prefectural People’s Mass Action”, which was regularly...
October 1, 2020 Ryukyu Shimpo
The “Silent Standing,” a silent protest that takes place in front of Naha City Hall every Wednesday, which protests against street-level propaganda that discriminates against Chinese residents and fans the flames of hate, entered its 20th week on September...
Webcam(Kokusai Street)