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Chikako Yamashiro receives prize at international film festival for Mud Man, which depicts the anguish of bearing military bases

Chikako Yamashiro receives prize at international film festival for Mud Man, which depicts the anguish of bearing military bases

May 9, 2018 Ryukyu Shimpo

On May 8 the International Short Film Festival Oberhausen was held in Oberhausen, Germany.

There, artist and filmmaker Chikako Yamashiro from Naha City, Okinawa was awarded the Zonta Prize for female filmmakers, for her film Mud Man (Tsuchi no Hito).

The film festival was established in 1954 and over its 64 instances it has come to be a historic festival.

This year about 7,300 works were entered in the festival.

Yamashiro said,...

 

IUCN defers site spanning Kagoshima and Okinawa nominated for Natural World Heritage status

IUCN defers site spanning Kagoshima and Okinawa nominated for Natural World Heritage status

 

May 4, 2018 Ryukyu Shimpo online edition

 

In the early morning on May 4 in Japan, the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN), an advisory body to the United Nations Educational Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO), deferred the Japanese government’s...

Okinawa International School starts offering Shimakutuba classes

Okinawa International School starts offering Shimakutuba classes

 

May 4, 2018 Ryukyu Shimpo

 

The Okinawa International School in Sobe, Naha City, began offering Shimakutuba classes this academic year.

The class is available to all 132 students of the elementary and junior high school.

School Director Masato...

Commandant Neller ignores history of land taken by U.S. military saying, “there were no people living” near Futenma when it was built

Commandant Neller ignores history of land taken by U.S. military saying, “there were no people living” near Futenma when it was built

 

May 4, 2018 Ryukyu Shimpo

Washington Special Correspondent Yukiyo Zaha reporting

 

On May 2 the Commandant of the U.S. Marine Corps (CMC) General Robert B. Neller spoke about Futenma Air Station, located in Ginowan City, Okinawa. He said, “Futenma Air...

Okinawa’s distant islands face a grave situation as hazardous waste washing ashore from overseas threatens island ecosystems

Okinawa’s distant islands face a grave situation as hazardous waste washing ashore from overseas threatens island ecosystems

 

May 8, 2018 Ryukyu Shimpo

By Chie Tome

 

On the shores of Okinawa’s Yaeyama archipelago, Miyako Island, and Yonaguni Island, waste that contains hazardous materials such as vacuum tubes that contains substances like mercury and polyethylene waste containers...

71 years after the enactment of the Japanese constitution, assemblies take place all over Okinawa regarding the Article 9

71 years after the enactment of the Japanese constitution, assemblies take place all over Okinawa regarding the Article 9

 

May 4, 2018 Ryukyu Shimpo

 

The “2018 Constitution Lecture Series” was held May 3, the anniversary of the enactment of the Japanese constitution, at Ginowan Community Center (hosted by The Okinawa Constitutional Association, the Okinawa Human Rights Association,...

Former Prime Minister Hatoyama calls for breaking away from U.S. obedience

Former Prime Minister Hatoyama calls for breaking away from U.S. obedience

 

May 4, 2018 Ryukyu Shimpo

 

On May 3, Ryukyu Shimpo interviewed former Prime Minister Yukio Hatoyama.

Hatoyama has been traveling Okinawa and the world even after he retired from the Diet and has been sharing his ideas on realizing peace.

Regarding the...

Sea turtle found around new military base in Henoko

Sea turtle found around new military base in Henoko

 

May 2, 2018 Ryukyu Shimpo

 

A sea turtle was found swimming in the ocean around Camp Schwab in Henoko, Nago City where a new military base is under construction.

 

Crushed stones continued to be poured in the ocean at the K4 site where bank protection...

Prefectural rally of 1500 people gathers in Henoko to observe Okinawa’s day of humiliation and protest persistent issues

Prefectural rally of 1500 people gathers in Henoko to observe Okinawa’s day of humiliation and protest persistent issues

 

April 29, 2018 Ryukyu Shimpo

 

April 28 marked 66 years since the day in 1952 that the San Francisco Peace Treaty came into effect and separated Okinawa from Japanese sovereignty, known to Okinawans as a day of humiliation.

A group pledging to never forget this...

The 35th Anniversary Celebration for Okinawa Kai of Washington D.C. is celebrated with a variety of lively performances

The 35th Anniversary Celebration for Okinawa Kai of Washington D.C. is celebrated with a variety of lively performances

 

April 30, 2018 Ryukyu Shimpo

 

By Special Corresponded Tamiko Suzuki

 

Washington D.C. – It has been 35 years since Jesse Shokan Shima gathered 27 people at his home, and started the Okinawa Kai of Washington D.C. Since then, the Okinawa Kai has...

Okinawa tourism at record high, OPG hopes to achieve 10 million tourists for FY 2018

Okinawa tourism at record high, OPG hopes to achieve 10 million tourists for FY 2018

 

April 26, 2018 Ryukyu Shimpo

 

On April 25, the Okinawa Prefectural Government (OPG) announced that compared to fiscal year (FY) 2016, FY 2017 saw a 9.2% increase in incoming tourists, or 809,800 more people, for a record high of 9,579,000.

There were several...