July 12, 2018 Ryukyu Shimpo
Catherine Jane Fisher is holding an art exhibition meant to transmit the messages of peace and love, titled Nuchi du Takara (Life is a Treasure), in Shibuya, Tokyo.
Fisher is an Australian and a resident of Tokyo who protests U.S. military crime and is calling for revision of the U.S.-Japan Status of Forces Agreement (SOFA).
Prior to the commencement of soil depositing work in Henoko, which is set for August as part of...
July 8, 2018 Ryukyu Shimpo
On July 7, the All-Okinawa Coalition Against Construction of the New Base in Henoko held a citizens’ rally calling for protection of the dugong and coral.
As for the Henoko base that is being constructed as a replacement facility...
July 6, 2018 Ryukyu Shimpo online edition
On July 6 as part of construction in Henoko, Nago City of a replacement facility for Futenma Air Station, work began on installing covering blocks at the K4 seawall on the shore of Camp Schwab.
Mobile cranes were observed lifting...
July 4, 2018 Ryukyu Shimpo
Due to the wind and rain from Typhoon Number Seven that passed through the main island of Okinawa between late in the evening on July 1 and the morning on July 2, part of the castle wall of World Heritage site Nakijin Castle collapsed.
Specifically,...
June 28, 2018 Ryukyu Shimpo Digital Edition
Okinawa Prefectural Police announced on June 28 that a crime lab had confirmed that the two windows of a farm shed in an orchard in Sukuta, Nago, which were broken on June 21 by, “what appeared to be a fired...
June 29, 2018 Ryukyu Shimpo Digital Edition
On June 29, a memorial service for the 1959 Okinawa F-100 crash was hosted at the Miyamori Elementary School by the student council.
It has been 59 years since a jet fighter plane crash landed due to poor maintenance...
June 26, 2018 Ryukyu Shimpo
The peace poem by Rinko Sagara, a 14-year-old student in her third year at Minatogawa Junior High School in Urasoe City, has received a lot of attention on the internet.
She read her poem at the “Irei no hi” Memorial Ceremony...
June 13, 2018 Ryukyu Shimpo
An event to commemorate former governor of Okinawa and emeritus professor at the University of the Ryukyus, Masahide Ota, who passed away in June, 2017, was held in Naha the evening of June 12.
He died at the age of ninety-two.
The...
June 22, 2018 Ryukyu Shimpo online edition
On June 21 at about 2:00 p.m., an object resembling a bullet was reported found at a small work cabin in an orchard in Sukuta, Nago City. No one was injured, but two panes of glass in the cabin were damaged.
According to the property...
June 25, 2018 Ryukyu Shimpo online edition
A team of about 70 vibrantly colored citizens’ canoes face the Japan Coast Guard’s black inflatable boats, separated by an oil fence.
As a backdrop to the contrasting colors of the two sides, the “thuds” of the...
June 21, 2018 Ryukyu Shimpo
On June 6 and 7, the Association of Nikkei and Japanese Abroad held their 59th Convention of Nikkei and Japanese Abroad in Hawaii.
Here, the association established June 20 as International Day of Nikkei.
June 20 was the...
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