August 7, 2017 Ryukyu Shimpo online edition
On the morning of August 7, Governor Takeshi Onaga was approached by a group of reporters on his way to work. He answered their inquiries concerning the MV-22 Osprey vertical takeoff and landing aircraft from Futenma Air Station that crashed off the eastern coast of Australia on August 5. Onaga said that such accidents are bound to happen, putting it down to the Osprey being an awful aircraft.
Accidents like this have happened...
August 10, 2017 Ryukyu Shimpo online edition
In the morning on August 10, about 120 people protesting the construction of a replacement facility for Futenma Air Station in Henoko, Nago City, conducted a sit-in at Camp Schwab’s gate.
The participants offered a minute of...
August 5, 2017 Ryukyu Shimpo
By Takahiro Miyagi
National Taiwan University announced August 4 that they would continue holding the remains of 63 Ryukyu people at their medical school’s physical anthropology laboratory, and indicated its intention to return the remains to Okinawa.
This...
August 4, 2017 Ryukyu Shimpo
According to the number counted weekly at 23 medical institutions in Okinawa, the number of heat stroke patients from July 16 to 22 (the 8th week of summer) was 119, and in the weekly summary, it was the highest in the past ten years.
The number from July...
July 26, 2017 Ryukyu Shimpo
Representatives from the Shirohara district in Ginoza village visited the Okinawa Defense Bureau to request immediate suspension of hang-training and removal of the landing areas for helicopters, also known as Falcon, around the community.
The district chief,...
August 6, 2017 Ryukyu Shimpo
An MV-22 Osprey belonging to U.S. Marine Corp Air Station Futenma crashed off the coast of Australia on August 5. Only seven months have passed since the Futenma-based MV-22 crashed on the coast of Abu, Nago City, last December.
Concerns and angers have since...
July 30, 2017 Ryukyu Shimpo
Washington Special Correspondent Yukiyo Zaha reporting
Fifty-seven-year-old businessman William Hagerty will be taking the post of U.S. Ambassador to Japan under the Trump administration.
On July 28 Hagerty spoke in regards the standoff between the...
August 2, 2017 Ryukyu Shimpo
Okinawa – Okinawa City Mayor Sachio Kuwae visited the U.S. Air Force’s 18th Mission Support...
August 4, 2017 Ryukyu Shimpo
Between 10:10 p.m. and 10:50 p.m. on August 3, Ospreys conducted takeoff and landing practice on the Falcon, the helicopter takeoff and landing strip in U.S. military Camp Hansen near a residential area in Shirohara Ward, Ginoza Village.
Takeoff and landing...
July 27, 2017 Ryukyu Shimpo
A public funeral to mourn former governor Masahide Ota, who passed away on June 12, and honor his achievements was held on the afternoon of July 26 at the Okinawa Convention Center in...
August 3, 2017 Ryukyu Shimpo
(Tokyo) On August 2, the liaison council of governors primarily involved in public affairs, comprising the governors of the fifteen prefectures where U.S. military bases are located and chaired by Kanagawa Governor Yuji Kuroiwa, held a regular general meeting at...
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