September 4, 2017 Ryukyu Shimpo
A symposium considering the impact of new base construction in Henoko on the surrounding environment and the Yambaru forest’s bid for UNESCO World Natural Heritage status was held on September 3 in Naha City.
Panelist Hideki Yoshikawa, international director of the Save the Dugong Campaign Center, stressed that the importance of the National Historic Preservation Act (NHPA), which was used in the Okinawa dugong lawsuit...
August 27, 2017 Ryukyu Shimpo
Director Keifuku Janamoto recently completed his documentary film Inochi no Umi Henoko Ourawan (Henoko and Oura Bay, the Sea of Life), which follows the lives and experiences of people living in the area around Oura Bay, where construction...
August 24, 2017 Ryukyu Shimpo
On August 23, Professor Yasukatsu Matsushima, representing the Research Association for the Repatriation of Ryukyu Remains, published an open letter to Kyoto University regarding the holding of Ryukyuan remains.
The remains of...
August 14, 2017 Ryukyu Shimpo
August 13 marked thirteen years since the U.S. military helicopter crash on Okinawa International University’s campus in Ginowan City.
The university held a gathering to demand the closure of Futenma Air Station and to transmit the value...
August 10, 2017 Ryukyu Shimpo Digital Edition
(Okinawa) On the afternoon of August 10, a funeral for former Okinawa Development Bureau director Kosuke Uehara, who died at 84, was held at the Sunray Central Okinawa Shiunkaku in Okinawa City.
Uehara’s friends and associates...
August 10, 2017 Ryukyu Shimpo
By Chie Tome
New species of spider and goby fish have been found in Okinawa Prefecture. Okinawa is known worldwide as a location that fosters abundant biological diversity.
This discovery of new species once again reaffirms the idea...
August 11, 2017 Ryukyu Shimpo
Three Geoemyda japonica, also known as Ryukyu Yamagame turtle, were born at the Okinawa Zoo and Museum.
This is the first hatch in the past five years at the zoo.
Ryukyu Yamagame is a national monument and designated as an endangered species.
A...
August 11, 2017 Ryukyu Shimpo
The MV-22 Ospreys, vertical takeoff-capable transport helicopters stationed at MCAS Futenma, has experienced a total of 10 accidents and emergency landings since being deployed in 2012.
This was reported by officials from the Okinawa Prefectural Assembly’s...
August 10, 2017 Ryukyu Shimpo online edition
In the morning on August 10, about 120 people protesting the construction of a replacement facility for Futenma Air Station in Henoko, Nago City, conducted a sit-in at Camp Schwab’s gate.
The participants offered a minute of...
August 6, 2017 Ryukyu Shimpo
An MV-22 Osprey belonging to U.S. Marine Corp Air Station Futenma crashed off the coast of Australia on August 5. Only seven months have passed since the Futenma-based MV-22 crashed on the coast of Abu, Nago City, last December.
Concerns and angers have since...
August 4, 2017 Ryukyu Shimpo
Between 10:10 p.m. and 10:50 p.m. on August 3, Ospreys conducted takeoff and landing practice on the Falcon, the helicopter takeoff and landing strip in U.S. military Camp Hansen near a residential area in Shirohara Ward, Ginoza Village.
Takeoff and landing...
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