September 14, 2017 Ryukyu Shimpo Digital Edition
Two Taiwanese fishing boats had drifted to the Hirara Port in Miyakojima City as a result of typhoon No. 18.
On September 14 at 8:57 am, four crew members who had been stranded on one of the boats were rescued by the Miyakojima Maritime Safety Agency.
There were no reported injuries. At the same time, an oil spill was also confirmed at the port.
Of the two boats, one had partially sunk.
The...
September 16, 2017 Ryukyu Shimpo
On September 15, the Kadena Police arrested four boys aged between 16 and 19 for vandalizing the Chibichiri Gama cave in Namihira, Yomitan where residents were forced to commit mass suicide during the Battle of Okinawa.
According...
September 14, 2017 Ryukyu Shimpo
It is impossible to forgive the desecration of the victims of the Battle of Okinawa and their surviving families by destroying a memorial site that conveys the true face of war.
The interior of and entrance to...
September 14, 2017 Ryukyu Shimpo
Tokyo – The “Committee to enact the 9/29 Okinawan Citizens Festival resolution,” which is working to restore in history textbooks the compulsory nature of the group suicides in Okinawa at the end of World War 2, held a symposium...
September 7, 2017 Ryukyu Shimpo online edition
In Okinawa City, a project called “The Origami Crane Project: The Longest Origami Crane Lei” has been underway in an attempt to set a Guinness World Record for the longest chain of connected origami cranes.
On September...
September 12, 2017 Ryukyu Shimpo Digital Edition
Yomitan – Chibichiri Gama, a cave in Namihira, Yomitan where civilians were forced to commit suicide by the Japanese military after the Battle of Okinawa, was discovered to be vandalized on the morning of September 12.
Shoichi...
September 5, 2017 Ryukyu Shimpo online edition
On September 5 Mao Ishikawa’s photograph exhibition, the Great Ryukyu Photo Scroll parts 1-4, opened at Naha Civic Gallery in Kumoji, Naha City.
The same day Ishikawa conducted a gallery talk during which she gave some exposition...
August 23, 2017 Ryukyu Shimpo
Three diomedea immutabilis birds were taken into care after they were lost in Okinawa due to the typhoon in early August.
Two of them were released on the 21-seiki no mori beach on August 22.
The two birds flew towards...
September 4, 2017 Ryukyu Shimpo
A symposium considering the impact of new base construction in Henoko on the surrounding environment and the Yambaru forest’s bid for UNESCO World Natural Heritage status was held on September 3 in Naha City.
Panelist...
August 27, 2017 Ryukyu Shimpo
Director Keifuku Janamoto recently completed his documentary film Inochi no Umi Henoko Ourawan (Henoko and Oura Bay, the Sea of Life), which follows the lives and experiences of people living in the area around Oura Bay, where construction...
August 24, 2017 Ryukyu Shimpo
On August 23, Professor Yasukatsu Matsushima, representing the Research Association for the Repatriation of Ryukyu Remains, published an open letter to Kyoto University regarding the holding of Ryukyuan remains.
The remains of...
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