March 26, 2018 Ryukyu Shimpo
The NS Ryukyuan Ballet Company led by Director Sayo Nagasaki held its first overseas performance at the Smithsonian American Art Museum in Washington D.C. The group performed an original ballet that incorporates various factors such as Ryukyuan dance, entertaining the audiences.
The stage was held as a part of the U.S. annual cherry blossom festival. Nineteen performers aged 14-22 danced ten uplifting songs including...
April 3, 2018 Ryukyu Shimpo
On April 2, Ishigaki City and Taketomi Town were together designated as a Dark Sky Place by the International Dark-Sky Association (IDA) based in Arizona.
It is the first time a location in Japan has received accreditation through the Dark Sky...
March 31, 2018 Ryukyu Shimpo
Okinawa Prefecture announced “The Caribbean of the East Initiative,” March...
March 30, 2018 Ryukyu Shimpo
On March 29, the Emperor and Empress concluded their supposedly last official visit to Okinawa and flew back to Tokyo from Naha Airport with their special plane.
On the final day, they visited the Okinawa Karate Kaikan in Tomigusuku...
March 29, 2018 Ryukyu Shimpo
On March 28 at Shiratama no To, Tokashiki Village hosted a memorial service for those who died in the “collective suicide” (compulsory mass suicide) 73 years prior on March 28, 1945, during the Battle of Okinawa.
More...
March 30, 2018 Ryukyu Shimpo
A 1985 agreement between the U.S. and Japanese governments gives civilian aircraft permission to enter U.S. military training airspace around Iejima at an altitude above 5000 feet (1524 meters). However on March 29 this year, the Marine...
March 29, 2018 Ryukyu Shimpo
Tokyo – The U.S. military announced that the CV-22 Osprey scheduled to deploy...
March 22, 2018 Ryukyu Shimpo
Seventy-nine year-old Isamu Kuniyoshi, who has collected remains from the victims of Battle of Okinawa for the past sixty years until he retired from collecting in March 2016, found a black pen case with the name “Masao Uema” inscribed.
The...
March 26, 2018 Ryukyu Shimpo
By Ryota Shimabukuro and Ryota Nakamura
Over the past two years U.S. military training airspace around Okinawa has greatly expanded, restricting the navigation of civilian aircraft.
The U.S. military added...
March 25, 2018 Ryukyu Shimpo
By Washington Special Correspondent Yukiyo Zaha
March 22, 2018 Ryukyu Shimpo
On March 22 at the Okinawa Prefectural Museum in Naha City, the Japanese Society for Oceanic Studies held a public symposium.
Professor Yasukatsu Matsushima of Ryukoku University reported that many human remains were...
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