September 24, 2018 Ryukyu Shimpo
On September 23, there were simultaneous actions throughout Japan as part of a movement calling for U.S. military bases to be withdrawn from Okinawa.
Members of the Okinawa Base Withdrawal Association’s Tokyo Network gathered in front of Hachioji Station in Tokyo, distributing pamphlets bearing the words: “We can no longer feign ignorance.”
Association members called out slogans like, “Isn’t...
September 5, 2018 Ryukyu Shimpo
A commercial facility called Okinawa Plaza opened in Waipahu, Hawaii, as a new base for Okinawa-related acctivities.
The opening ceremony was held on September 3.
The plaza is located next to the Hawaii Okinawa Center,...
September 6, 2018 Ryukyu Shimpo
The “Henoko Okinawa Referendum Committee,” (Jinshiro Motoyama, representative), which...
August 28, 2018 Ryukyu Shimpo
On August 27, Okinawa Prefecture announced that the ninth Okinawa Peace Award will be awarded to Japan International Volunteer Center (JVC), an international NGO based in Tokyo and headed by Takaki Imai.
The Okinawa Peace Award is presented...
August 28, 2018 Ryukyu Shimpo
Yuri Shimizu reports from Jeju
On August 27 the governors of Okinawa, Jeju Special Self-Governing Province in South Korea, and Hawaii met together on Jeju Island for the first Global Green Island Summit (GGIS) forum...
August 22, 2018 Ryukyu Shimpo
“The young woman in the picture is me.” Some American university students were searching for a woman in a photograph published on the front page of the local news in Ryukyu Shimpo on August 15, which was from U.S. military-occupied Okinawa...
August 24, 2018 Ryukyu Shimpo
By Chie Tome and Tomoki Yasutomi
On August 23, 15 letters addressed to Okinawans and Okinawan descendants living in Hawaii sent from a prisoner of war (POW) camp between 1945 and 1946 were discovered.
The letters were written by people...
August 14, 2018 Ryukyu Shimpo
A memorial service for Okinawa governor Takeishi Onaga, who passed away at age 67 on August 8, was held at Daitenji temple in Naha August 13.
This is the first time that an Okinawan governor has died while still in office.
Approximately...
August 15, 2018 Ryukyu Shimpo
On August 14, there were successive emergency landings of MV-22 Osprey vertical takeoff and landing aircraft from MCAS Futenma Air Station at Amami Airport in Kagoshima Prefecture and at Kadena Air Base.
The causes of these emergency landings...
August 11, 2018 Ryukyu Shimpo Digital Edition
The “August 11 Okinawa convention to forbid land filling, and to demand protection for Dugong and coral and for the cancellation of new base facilities in Henoko,” (hosted by the All Okinawa committee to prevent new base construction...
August 11, 2018 Ryukyu Shimpo online edition
On August 11 at East Ikebukuro Central Park in Tokyo, an Okinawan prefectural rally met to show solidarity against land reclamation and base construction in Henoko, Nago City.
Those gathered mourned Governor Takeshi...
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