February 7, 2020 Ryukyu Shimpo
By Mariko Nakamura, Shohei Tsukazaki
Secilil Eldebechel, 51, chief of staff to the president of Palau, visited Okinawa to strengthen Okinawa-Palau ties, but he had another reason to visit—to discover his grandfather’s Okinawan roots. Indeed, Eldebechel had a grandfather named Nabesuke Yamashiro, who was born in Yambaru in Northern Okinawa.
Nabesuke Yamashiro was born in Yambaru, Okinawa sometime between 1897 and 1902, and emigrated to Palau...
February 1, 2020 Ryukyu Shimpo
The estimated prefectural population as of January 1, 2020, announced by the Okinawa Prefecture Statistics Division on January 31, was 1,456,417, an increase of 618 people (0.04%) from the previous month, and an increase of 5,482 people (0.38%) compared to January...
January 29, 2020 Ryukyu Shimpo
The Okinawa Prefectural Police Department’s First Investigations Division ended its investigation of the Shuri Castle fire, in which six buildings including the castle’s seiden main hall was burned to the ground.
The police department previously collected...
January 30, 2020 Ryukyu Shimpo
On January 30, the coldest temperatures this winter were recorded at 13 Okinawan meteorological observatories.
The cold weather was due to movement of a cold air mass in the upper atmosphere caused by a high-pressure system jutting out from the Asian continent.
At...
January 20, 2019 Ryukyu Shimpo
On January 19, Saneyoshi Furugen, 90, a former member of the Lower House of the Diet who was mobilized during the Battle of Okinawa in the Tekketsu Kinnotai unit composed of middle school boys, discussed his wartime experience for the first time in front of the...
January 17, 2020 Ryukyu Shimpo
Governor Denny Tamaki announced during a regular press conference on January 16 that the 7th World Uchinanchu Festival is planned to be held October 28-31, 2021.
The governor encouraged world-wide participation and support: “the festival unites uchinanchus...
January 14, 2020 Ryukyu Shimpo
Ryota Shimabukuro
Okinawa Prefecture, which is trying to get four of their islands, Amami Oshima, Tokunoshima, the northern part of Okinawa’s main island, and Iriomote, will implement a policy that limits the number of tourists who can enter the town of...
January 8, 2020 Ryukyu Shimpo
On January 7, the Kuroshio Biological Research Institute announced it discovered a new jellyfish species among the specimen they collected in Northern Okinawa and named it Olindias deigo (Japanese: Deigo-hanagasa-kurage).
It is the first time in 114 years...
January 9, 2020 Ryukyu Shimpo
Motobu and Onna – On January 8th, it was announced that the Okinawa Churashima Foundation and Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology Graduate University (OIST) had determined that the goby specimen discovered by the foundation in the deep sea around Onna...
January 8, 2020 Ryukyu Shimpo
A collaboration of research teams from organizations that include private businesses, the University of the Ryukyus, and Nagasaki University launched a project to survey ocean garbage coming ashore using satellites, drones, and fixed cameras on January 7.
The...
January 9, 2020 Ryukyu Shimpo
Pork dishes are indispensable to Okinawan cuisine—Okinawa soba, san-mai niku (braised pork belly), tebichi (stewed pork feet), soki-jiru (pork spare ribs soup) and mimiga (crunchy pig’s ear), to name a few.
The news of Classical Swine Fever (CSF),...
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