December 12, 2019 Ryukyu Shimpo
On December 10, the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) announced that the dugong that inhabit the waters around the Nansei Islands are critically endangered.
The IUCN is the world’s largest nature conservation organization with more than 200 government agencies among its members.
The announcement marks the first time that the IUCN has evaluated the conservation status of the dugong.
In the IUCN evaluation, the...
December 12, 2019 Ryukyu Shimpo
New species continue to be discovered in the ocean around Okinawa.
The sea anemone that has been raised for many years at Churaumi Aquarium was confirmed to be a new species.
A research team that includes members from the Okinawa Institute of Science...
December 10, 2019 Ryukyu Shimpo
Kin – After an incident where three mortar flares were dropped on private property such as rice paddies in the Igei ward of Kin, Kin mayor Hajime Nakama and Igei Ward chief Hitoshi Yamazato visited Kazunori Tanaka, head of the Okinawa Defense Bureau (ODB),...
December 4, 2019 Ryukyu Shimpo
By Haruko Tabuki
Japanese physician Tetsu Nakamura was recently shot and killed in Afghanistan.
The recipient of the inaugural Okinawa Peace Prize as the Peshawar-kai representative for Afghanistan, Nakamura had deep ties with Okinawa.
He...
December 1, 2019 Ryukyu Shimpo
By Keiichiro Ono
In support of the reconstruction of Shuri Castle, which recently burned down, over 100 people gathered for a charity event in front of a Japanese restaurant in the Indonesian capital of Jakarta November 29.
Both Japanese people with...
December 1, 2019 Ryukyu Shimpo
While support grows for the reconstruction of Shuri Castle after it was destroyed in a fire, more are also calling for the underground trenches used as the Japanese 32nd Army headquarters to be opened to the public. Eiki Senaha, 91, of Naha, who is the former...
December 2, 2019 Ryukyu Shimpo
By Saki Yoshida
Henoko, Nago City—Every Saturday evening, the Peace Candle lights up near Camp Schwab to protest the construction of a new U.S. military base. November marked the 16th year for the Peace Candle protest, which was started by Takekiyo Toguchi,...
November 22, 2019 Ryukyu Shimpo
On the evening of November 21, a symposium titled “Questioning this nation from Okinawa–peace, the Constitution, and democracy” (sponsored by the Committee of Seven to Appeal for World Peace, co-sponsored by the Ryukyu Shimpo) for investigating the...
November 24, 2019 Ryukyu Shimpo
The Nirai Kanainu-kai organization (co-represented by Masako Kameya, Takeshi Tamaki, Shisei Toma, and Yasukatsu Matsushima) was launched November 23 to demand the return of remains that had been excavated from graves in Okinawa and Amami by anthropologists for...
November 21, 2019 Ryukyu Shimpo
William Elder, 92, who was sent as a missionary to the Okinawa Church of Christ by the United Church of Christ Japan from 1966-1969, prior to Okinawa’s reversion to Japan, traveled to Okinawa from Osaka November 20 for a reunion with Pastor Osamu Taira, 87,...
November 19, 2019 Ryukyu Shimpo
Ryota Nakamura
During U.S. rule of Okinawa in 1958, there were many Uchinanchu who went to Thursday Island in northern Australia with dreams of getting rich pearl diving.
Senshu Arakawa, 86, from Kenken, Motobu was one of them. The reality of a...
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