November 18, 2021 Ryukyu Shimpo
White lions Seramu (4-year-old male) and Rhythm (3-year-old female) are spending more time together with the goal of breeding at the Okinawa Zoo & Museum (Okinawa Kodomo no Kuni) in Okinawa City. Visitors can watch the couple hang out in the exhibition area. It is the first time in about 20 years that a pair of lions have been joined together for breeding. If they succeed at breeding, it will be the first time in over 35 years.
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November 15, 2021 Ryukyu Shimpo
Motobu – A crowd of people gathered November 14 at Shinzato Fishing Port in Motobu, where a large amount of pumice stone has floated into the harbor, and got to work helping with the effort to remove it. The crowd was rallied by Okinawa resident...
November 19, 2021 Ryukyu Shimpo
On the evening of November 18 at the Futenma Air Station in Ginowan City, Okinawa, suspension training was conducted using an MV-22 Osprey vertical takeoff and landing transport aircraft from the air station. The training involved a rectangluar, cage-like object...
November 18, 2021 Ryukyu Shimpo
Chatan – On November 17, a general meeting of an association that supports individuals and family members of individuals who have been exposed to asbestos as a result of the U.S. military presence in Okinawa was held at the Chatan Chamber of Commerce...
November 15, 2021 Ryukyu Shimpo
The Japan Ground Self-Defense Force (JGSDF) transported surface-to-air and surface-to-ship missiles November 14 from the Miyakojima Garrison over the water to the Bora Training Grounds. Under occasional heavy rain, Miyakojima residents rushed to Hirara Port and...
November 11, 2021 Ryukyu Shimpo
On November 10, the winner of the 2021 Japan Booksellers’ Award for Nonfiction, which is organized jointly by Yahoo News and Hontai, was announced. Bookstore clerks throughout Japan vote on the winner, and this year, chose University of the Ryukyus...
November 12, 2021 Ryukyu Shimpo
By Hideki Matsudo
Nago – The Carolina Cup, part of the Association of Paddlesurf Professionals (APP) 2021 world tour, took place November 6 and 7 in North Carolina. At the competition, 15-year-old Shuri Araki, a ninth-grader at Ryokufu...
November 12, 2021 Ryukyu Shimpo
The Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History in Germany led 42 researchers from various countries such as South Korea, China, the United States, Japan including Okinawa, concluding before November 11 that...
November 11, 2021 Ryukyu Shimpo
On November 9, the Kin Town Council (chaired by Yoshimitsu Kakazu) opened an extraordinary session and unanimously passed a written opinion requesting an investigation into the cause and countermeasures pertaining to the problem of the levels of...
November 8, 2021 Ryukyu Shimpo
The Uruma Board of Education (BoE) announced November 8 that human remains dating back as far as 9,000-10,000 years was discovered at the Yabuchi Caves archeological site in Uruma. The remains appear to be skull fragments, are would be the oldest...
November 5, 2021 Ryukyu Shimpo
By Mariko Nakamura
On November 4, the Personal Support Center for work and livelihood support in Naha announced that they had received approximately 8000 consultations over the course of the 2020 fiscal year, 8 times the number received in...
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