November 23, 2017 Ryukyu Shimpo
On November 21 Commandant of the U.S. Marine Corps Robert Neller spoke about the fatal collision on November 19 due to a Marine Corps serviceman driving under the influence of alcohol.
He said: “Well, our condolences go to the family of the individual who was killed. And I also have great sympathy for the Marine. I’m sure that was not his intent.”
In Ryukyu Shimpo’s interview with Neller,...
November 20, 2017 Ryukyu Shimpo
On November 19 the Naha Police apprehended a 21-year-old lance corporal of the U.S. Marines who was operating a two-ton military truck while under the influence of alcohol.
This Camp Kinser-based Marine collided the military...
November 21, 2017 Ryukyu Shimpo
“Give me a break!” On the morning after a drunk driving fatality in Naha caused by a U.S. Marine stationed in Okinawa, Okinawa Governor Takeshi Onaga let fly one candid reprimand after another at Lt. General Lawrence Nicholson,...
November 17, 2017 Ryukyu Shimpo
The first day of hearings in the trial of the 33-year-old ex-Marine accused of rape resulting in death and murder of an Okinawan woman while employed as a civilian base worker in April, 2016 began today at Naha District Court (Judge...
November 13, 2017 Ryukyu Shimpo online edition
Past 7:30 a.m. on November 13, a large boat for use transporting gravel and stones over the ocean was docked at Oku Port in Kunigami Village.
This boat is taking the materials to Henoko, Nago City, for use in constructing a...
November 1, 2017 Ryukyu Shimpo
Taiwan University will return the remains of Ryukyuan people that were found in Mumujana grave in Nakijin Village by anthropologists from the former Imperial Universities in the early Showa era and are being kept at the university.
The...
November 3, 2017 Ryukyu Shimpo
(Central Okinawa) On November 2, ten F-35As, one of the U.S. Air Force’s newest stealth fighters, arrived at Kadena Air Base. The F-35As are normally stationed at Hill Air Force Base in Utah. The 18th Wing of the U.S....
October 27, 2017 Ryukyu Shimpo
Twelve children between the age of four and eleven living in Fukushima prefecture and their six mothers were invited to the Geruma Camp at Geruma Island, Zamami Village in Okinawa on October 24 and 25.
The event has been carried...
October 17, 2017 Ryukyu Shimpo
By Chie Tome
In order to study the impacts of replacement facility construction in Henoko, Nago City for Futenma Air Station (currently located in Ginowan City), the Ministry of Defense’s Okinawa Defense Bureau (ODB) is conducting...
October 12, 2017 Ryukyu Shimpo
As of 7:00 a.m. on October 12, the charred remains of a U.S. Marine CH-53E heavy-lift transport helicopter belonging to the U.S. Marine Corp Futenma Air Station cast a miserable sight the night after it burst into flames due to a forced landing on pasture in Takae,...
October 8, 2017 Ryukyu Shimpo online edition
On October 8, the 47th annual Naha Giant Tug-of-War Festival featuring the world’s largest festival rope took place at Kumoji intersection on National Route 58 in Naha City.
According to organizers about 270,000...
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