May 26, 2014 Ryukyu Shimpo
Okinawa’s national league basketball team won the championship in Japan’s professional basketball league or “bj league” at Ariake Colosseum in Tokyo on May 25. In the play off for the 2013-2014 season championship, the Ryukyu Golden Kings beat the Akita Northern Happinets of Akita Prefecture, 103 to 89. It is the third time the Kings have won the championship.
The Kings held a press conference to announce their victory at the Okinawa...
May 19, 2014 Ryukyu Shimpo
On May 18, the last day of the 37th peace march, a rally to protect life and peace was held in Ginowan. The march and rally commemorate the 42nd anniversary of Okinawa’s reversion to Japanese sovereignty from the United Sates occupation. Despite heavy rain,...
May 5, 2014 Ryukyu Shimpo
In the solar calendar of East Asian cultures, May 5 or “Lixia” marks the beginning of Summer. The season was ushered in with the blooming of 60,000 Easter lilies at Okinawa Comprehensive Athletic Park in Okinawa City.
Many families viewed the lillies while...
May 6, 2014 Ryukyu Shimpo
On May 5, the Okinawa Meteorological Observatory announced the beginning of the rainy season in Okinawa.
It started four days earlier than average years and five days earlier than last year.
Due to the seasonal rain front, the state of the atmosphere in...
April 28, 2014 Ryukyu Shimpo
Ballroom dance instructor and hobby-fisherman Minoru Higa has caught a 2.7-meter long moray. He said of the catch, “It was a hard work.” Before being pulled in, it struggled to escape, and swam back and forth for 50 meters along the dock.
On the...
April 25, 2014 Ryukyu Shimpo
In the middle of the fishing season, Asumaru ship captain Masanori Isagawa caught a giant bluefin tuna weighing 327 kilograms at Tomari Port in Naha on April 25. Isagawa said with a smile, “After seeing the tuna caught by longline fishing, I was so happy.”
The...
March 16, 2014 Ryukyu Shimpo
New green leaves have grown from the buds in the northern part of Okinawa, marking the beginning of spring.
On March 16, a clear day, people visited Nagao bridge on Okuni forest road in Kunigani Village to view the new green leaves.
On warm days in...
March 17, 2014 Ryukyu Shimpo
The third Sugar Ride Kumejima started at Ojima on March 16. Cyclists enjoyed touring around Kumejima Town, which has rich nature.
Over the 130 kilometer-Challenge course, the participants did three laps of the island. In the 90 kilometer-Athlete course, they...
March 16, 2014 Ryukyu Shimpo
On March 15, at the Central Park Avenue in Okinawa City, local residents celebrated St. Patrick’s Day, the largest event in Ireland. About 120 people, wearing Ireland’s national color green costumes, marched on the street to Irish music played by a band....
March 14, 2014 Masaaki Umeda of Ryukyu Shimpo
A popular one-year-old male dog named Saburo energetically plays around the coast in Itoman, running in the sea spray to the amusement of locals at Fisher Craft Center. A hit-and-run accident left him a paraplegic last summer. He lost his rear left...
February 27, 2014 Ryukyu Shimpo
Fully bloomed pink cosmoses fill about 6.6 hectares of rice paddies in Kawakami, Nago. It is the season to enjoy blooming cosmoses. The area is called “Haneji Tabukkwa,” which means rich paddies. The local volunteer group in the community has started...
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