April 29, 2021 Ryukyu Shimpo
April 28 marked five years since the occurrence of an incident in which a man in U.S. military employ sexually assaulted and killed an office worker in the central part of Okinawa Island. People visited the site in Afuso, Onna Village where the woman’s body was abandoned to mourn her. With heavy hearts, they calmly prayed for such an incident to never happen again.
Letters and offerings, such as strings of paper cranes, contributed...
April 14, 2021 Ryukyu Shimpo
Three university students started Urgent Action (Kinkyu Action), a public pressure campaign on the Japanese government to block a soil collecting project in southern Okinawa, where remains of the war dead from the Battle of Okinawa lay. Additionally, the campaign...
March 10, 2021 Ryukyu Shimpo
On March 6, an urgent youth statement in support of Takamatsu Gushiken’s hunger strike and calling on the Japanese government to halt plans to obtain soil from the southern part of Okinawa Island was published online by a group of young people in...
April 13, 2021 Ryukyu Shimpo
On the evening of April 12, exactly 25 years after the agreement was made to completely close U.S. Marine Corps Air Station (MCAS) Futenma in 1996, four FA18 combat jets from MCAS Iwakuni in Yamaguchi Prefecture arrived one after another to MCAS Futenma,...
April 7, 2021 Ryukyu Shimpo
On April 7, study results were issued on the Japan Air Self-Defense Force (JASDF) Naha Base website concerning a recent incident in which a foam fire-extinguishing agent leaked off of said base. PFOS and PFOA, which are types of organic flourine compounds,...
April 8, 2021 Ryukyu Shimpo
Chubu – On April 7, public elementary, junior high, and high schools held opening ceremonies and entrance ceremonies for the new school year. Despite having received requests to pause flights for the day from the boards of education in the area, U.S....
April 2, 2021 Ryukyu Shimpo
By Wakana Arakaki
The Chatan Board of Education is set to offer “peace education training” to all of its elementary and junior high school faculty this academic year. While many municipalities in Okinawa offer peace training to first-year...
March 26, 2021 Ryukyu Shimpo
On March 25, due to being covered by a high-pressure system, sunny weather spread to regions throughout Okinawa. This heralds in the season for harvesting lettuce in Itoman City.
In Maehira, Itoman City, harvesting work is very busy in 45-year-old...
March 25, 2021 Ryukyu Shimpo
On March 24, 245 public elementary and junior high schools in Okinawa held closing ceremonies to mark the end of the school year. At Nakagusuku Minami Elementary School in Nakagusuku, measures to prevent the spread of Covid-19 meant that the entire...
March 23, 2021 Ryukyu Shimpo
(Urasoe) On March 23, at its final regular meeting in March, the Urasoe City Council (Chairperson: Chobun Goeku) unanimously passed the “Ordinance for Achieving a Society that Honors Sexual Diversity” bill, which includes introduction of a “partnership...
March 12, 2021 Ryukyu Shimpo
On March 10, two large aircrafts believed to be U.S. Air Force special operations aircraft MC-130J were observed flying at low altitudes off the coast of Zamami Island. According to eyewitnesses, the two planes flew west over the inland sea between...
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