December 6, 2013 Ryukyu shimpo
The Naha City Assembly began questioning the Naha Municipal Government on December 6 as the December round of regular meetings. On the issue of moving the facilities at Futenma to Henoko in Nago, Mayor Takeshi Onaga said, “Even in these difficult circumstances, the fire burning for all Okinawans remains.” He expressed his wish to keep the hearts of Okinawans united in a nonpartisan manner, and for significant developments to happen. Onaga said,...
November 23, 2013 Rie Higashihama Correspondent of the Ryukyu Shimpo
A one-and-a-half year-old Yonaguni horse was rescued safely from a freighter stranded on a reef near the northeastern part of Yonaguni Island in the afternoon of November 20. The horse had survived without eating or drinking...
November 29, 2013 Ryukyu Shimpo
Two U.S. military servicemen received prison sentences for robbing and injuring a taxi driver in Okinawa City in 2006. The U.S. government did not provide compensation to the victim for over four years. At first, they said that could not pay the victim if he...
November 25, 2013 Ryukyu Shimpo
As the U.S. and Japanese governments work on moving U.S. Marine Corps Air Station Futenma to the Henoko district in Nago, the “Peace Candle” gathering held on November 24 in protest against the building of a new base marked its tenth year. Every Saturday...
November 22, 2013 Ryukyu Shimpo
A representative of the Okinawa Prefectural Museum & Art Museum announced on November 21 that the oldest piece of Okinawan earthenware discovered to date has been found in the Sakitari Cave in Nanjo City. Carbon dating has identified it as a piece with the...
November 18, 2013 Ryukyu Shimpo
Sadao Tome, 72, was elected as the next executive director of the Japanese Prefectural Association of Southern California (Nanka Kenjinkai Kyogikai) by its board in October. The association is the unified body for the 40 kenjinkai (prefectural associations) from...
November 18, 2013 Ryukyu Shimpo
A ceremony commemorating the 50th anniversary of the establishment of the All Japan Abstinence Federation was held at the Okinawa Convention Center in Ginowan on November 17.
About 2,150 members of the federation and their family from 44 prefectural and...
November 12, 2013 Ryukyu Shimpo
Agent Orange second-generation victim Heather Bowser gave a lecture at the Okinawa Prefectural Assembly on November 11. Her late father was a Vietnam War veteran and a victim of the defoliant known as Agent Orange. She was born without a right leg below the knee,...
November 8, 2013 Ryukyu Shimpo
Masaru Nakamura of the Okinawa Chura Umi Foundation and other researchers succeeded in converting an adult female fish to a male, for the first time in the world. They managed this by administering a drug that stops the synthesis of female hormones. The foundation...
November 6, 2013 Yugo Okita of the Ryukyu Shimpo
Okinawa dugong plaintiffs are considering filing a new lawsuit in the United States in an attempt to block the landfill in Henoko, Nago. The governments of Japan and the United States plan to build alternative facilities for U.S. Marine Corps...
November 3, 2013 Ryukyu Shimpo
The Okinawa Convention & Visitors Bureau held the Miss Okinawa Contest 2014 at the conference center in the Okinawa Convention Center in Ginowan. The contest awarded prizes to winners in three separate categories: 19-year-old college student Keiko Takaesu...
