August 6, 2014 Mamoru Yasuda of Ryukyu Shimpo
Nobel Prize-winning author Kenzaburo Oe wrote a book about Okinawa titled Okinawa Notes. He has deep emotional ties to the prefecture. When he visited Okinawa for the first time in 1965, Oe met Okinawan atomic bomb survivors, and wrote a memoir directed at them.
In the handwritten memo, Oe said, “We have to always recognize about Okinawan people having to bear burdens.”
In the memorial, Oe describes himself as a someone...
August 7, 2014 Ryota Shimabukuro of Ryukyu Shimpo reports from Washington D.C.
According to a list of Class A mishaps published by the U.S. Naval Safety Center, a U.S. Marine MV-22 Osprey aircraft was struck by lightning on June 27. A Class is the most severe type of accident. On August 5,...
July 31 2014 Ryukyu SHimpo
Under the theme of “Plant Okinawan seeds in Europe,” the third World Youth Uchinanchu Festival Germany 2014 was held in Dusseldorf from July 30 to August 1. Young people of Okinawan descent took part from all around the world. The event drew 38...
July 27, 2014 Ryukyu Shimpo
Japanese company Kaiyodo which is known for figurines and garage kits worldwide, held a figure exhibit at the special hall on the third floor of Tomarin (Tomari Port Terminal) in Naha.
Organizers displayed over 4,000 figures created by the company. The exhibit...
July 27, 2014 Ryukyu Shimpo
The mayors of all municipalities in Okinawa visited Prime Minister Shinzo Abe’s official residence to give him a petition requesting the U.S. and Japanese governments abandon the plan to relocate the facilities at U.S. Marine Corps Air Station Futenma within...
July 22, 2014 Ryukyu Shimpo
On July 21, a group from “The 50th Tour for Davao Memorial Service and Exchange” visited the Mintal district of Davao in the Philippines to hold a memorial service in front of the Monument of Okinawa at the Japanese Cemetery. Bereaved families of the...
July 26, 2014 Ryukyu Shimpo
On July 25, former Prime Minister Yukio Hatoyama dropped in at Henoko fishing port in Nago, during his stay in Okinawa to take part in a symposium. After visiting the tent of a 17-year ongoing sit-in, he surveyed the shore of Camp Schwab, the planned relocation site...
July 18, 2014 Eriko Tamaki of Ryukyu Shimpo
The Himeyuri Peace Museum in Itoman marked its 25th anniversary on June 23rd this year. In March 2014, the total number of visitors over the last 25 years was 19,801,496 people. Many students on school trips and tourists from outside Okinawa visited...
July 10, 2014 Ryukyu Shimpo
On May 7, 12 saw sharks were born at the Okinawa Churaumi Aquarium in Motobu. It was the first time that a saw shark became pregnant and succeeded in giving birth to its babies at the aquarium. This is a rare, successful case for aquariums around the world because...
July 11, 2014 Ryukyu Shimpo
Typhoon Neoguri, which is called No. 8 in Japan, caused heavy damage in Okinawa on July 10. It was the first time Japan used a special danger alert.
On Tokashiki Island, the meteorological observatory measured a maximum instantaneous wind speed of 53 kilometers...
July 11, 2014 Ryukyu Shimpo
The Okinawa Prefectural assembly has unanimously resolved to preserve rather than cremate the remains of victims of the Battle of Okinawa on July 10. The assembly asked the Japanese government to do so via the prefectural government.
The resolution was passed...
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