March 1, 2018 Ryukyu Shimpo Digital Edition
Around 5:30 pm on February 28 at Ginowan City Funtenma Elementary School, a transport aircraft Osprey was photographed flying. A student’s family member spotted and videotaped the Osprey. The video footage shows the bottom of the aircraft. In response to Ryukyu Shimpo’s interview, the Okinawa Defense Bureau (ODB) said that they “did not agree” to this.
Following the incident last December in which an U.S. military helicopter’s...
February 25, 2018 Ryukyu Shimpo online edition
By Washington Special Correspondent Yukiyo Zaha
On February 24 Okinawa Peace Appeal, a group comprised of Okinawan people who live in the United States, held a demonstration in New York supporting Chairman Hiroji...
February 16, 2018 Ryukyu Shimpo
It was confirmed around 5:45 p.m. on February 14 that a U.S. Marine Corps MV-22 transport Osprey was engaging in aerial refueling near the hamlet of Ada, Kunigami Village.
The cause of the crash in Abu, Nago City...
February 8, 2018 Ryukyu Shimpo
On February 7, a party to celebrate the end of Inamine’s term as mayor was held at the Nago City Office.
In his farewell address Inamine said, “The only regret weighing on my mind is the work I left...
February 1, 2018 Ryukyu Shimpo
The Okinawa Churaumi Aquarium in Motobu announced on January 30 that a male Alfred manta born at the aquarium in June, 2008 was confirmed to be an adult capable of reproduction at five years of age after having been continusouly observed...
February 1, 2018 Ryukyu Shimpo
Following the incident where parts fell from an U.S. military aircraft, 100,456 signatures were collected by January 31 by the Midorigaoka Nursery’s Parents’ Association.
The petition called for the suspension...
January 15, 2018 Ryukyu Shimpo
Ten-year-old Isshin Nakasone, fifth-grade student at Hagoromo Elementary School in Ginowan, successfully hatched five quails out of 19 eggs that he bought at a store last June. According to his mother Eri ,38, they did not have many expectations before they started...
January 27, 2018 Ryukyu Shimpo
With the concentration of U.S. military bases on Okinawa, accidents and trouble caused by U.S. military aircraft are never-ending. Many incidents have occurred that injure and kill Okinawans, and their way of life has come to be threatened by military aircraft....
January 24, 2018 Ryukyu Shimpo
On January 23, a judge at the Naha District Court made a ruling in a lawsuit calling for an apology by the national government and 11 million yen per plaintiff in damages instituted by 44 plaintiffs comprising Okinawan survivors of battle in the south sea islands...
January 26, 2016 Ryukyu Shimpo
By Shohei Tsukazaki
The Nago Board of Education (BoE) and the Okinawa BoE decided January 25 to conduct a cultural asset survey starting in February on the land portion of the “Nagasaki Kaneku Scattered Artifact Zone” located...
January 26, 2018 Ryukyu Shimpo
Between January 23 and 25, the four young men who vandalized Chibichiri-gama vistied the site with their probation officers as part of their probation program.
They assembled Buddha statues by attaching face and...
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