February 24, 2020 Ryukyu Shimpo
February 24 marked the passage of one year since the prefectural referendum showing Okinawans’ opposition to the land reclamation in Henoko, Nago as part of the relocation of U.S. Marine Corps Air Station Futenma in Ginowan. On February 23, four youth in their 20s who worked hard to make the referendum happen held a talk event called “Thinking About Our Referedum Now” in Asato, Naha. There, they discussed their frustration at seeing the popular opposition...
February 11, 2020 Ryukyu Shimpo
February 9 saw the start of joint excavation work by youth from Japan, South Korea, and Taiwan (organized by the Kenken Remains Excavation Joint Action Committee) on land in Kenken, Motobu where the remains of fourteen people, including two Koreans, were buried...
February 12, 2020 Ryukyu Shimpo
By Kazuki Furugen
Manabu Kochi is an artist from Naha who lives in France.
Recently, he completed a painting imbued with the grief he feels at the loss of Shuri Castle, which burned down in late October of last year, and his hopes for its reconstruction....
February 13, 2020 Ryukyu Shimpo
On the evening of February 11, a light phenomenon in which light appears in the sky horizontal to the sun, called a “parhelion (genjitsu)”, was observed in Naha City and Urasoe City.
The light appearing to both sides of the sun made it seem as though...
February 12, 2020 Ryukyu Shimpo
The town of Kin (Hajime Nakama, mayor) and the city of Honolulu (Kirk Caldwell, mayor), signed a friendship agreement on February 11 at Honolulu City Hall as part of a celebration of Okinawa’s first emigrants to Hawaii from Kin 120 years ago.
They will...
February 7, 2020 Ryukyu Shimpo
By Mariko Nakamura, Shohei Tsukazaki
Secilil Eldebechel, 51, chief of staff to the president of Palau, visited Okinawa to strengthen Okinawa-Palau ties, but he had another reason to visit—to discover his grandfather’s Okinawan roots. Indeed, Eldebechel...
February 1, 2020 Ryukyu Shimpo
The estimated prefectural population as of January 1, 2020, announced by the Okinawa Prefecture Statistics Division on January 31, was 1,456,417, an increase of 618 people (0.04%) from the previous month, and an increase of 5,482 people (0.38%) compared to January...
January 29, 2020 Ryukyu Shimpo
The Okinawa Prefectural Police Department’s First Investigations Division ended its investigation of the Shuri Castle fire, in which six buildings including the castle’s seiden main hall was burned to the ground.
The police department previously collected...
January 30, 2020 Ryukyu Shimpo
On January 30, the coldest temperatures this winter were recorded at 13 Okinawan meteorological observatories.
The cold weather was due to movement of a cold air mass in the upper atmosphere caused by a high-pressure system jutting out from the Asian continent.
At...
January 20, 2019 Ryukyu Shimpo
On January 19, Saneyoshi Furugen, 90, a former member of the Lower House of the Diet who was mobilized during the Battle of Okinawa in the Tekketsu Kinnotai unit composed of middle school boys, discussed his wartime experience for the first time in front of the...
January 17, 2020 Ryukyu Shimpo
Governor Denny Tamaki announced during a regular press conference on January 16 that the 7th World Uchinanchu Festival is planned to be held October 28-31, 2021.
The governor encouraged world-wide participation and support: “the festival unites uchinanchus...
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