Satoko Oka Norimatsu, Editor, The Asia-Pacific Journal: Japan Focus
BTS (Bangtan Boys) is a seven-member hip-hop boys’ group that debuted in South Korea in 2013. Over the past two years, these top K-pop stars propelled themselves to worldwide stardom rapidly with their superb dancing, singing and visuals and their message that youth identify with, and SNS-based marketing.
Two of their albums earned a top Billboard spot just this year. Being Asian myself,...
November 27, 2018 Ryukyu Shimpo
Special correspondent Yukiyo Zaha reports from Washington DC
On November 26, the Ryukyu Shimpo learned that although the total number of U.S. military installations outside of the United States has decreased more than 30 percent from 761 installations...
November 26, 2018 Ryukyu Shimpo
By correspondent Mitsuhiro Akamine
The Okinawa Association of Peru (AOP – Spanish: Asociación Okinawense del Perú) opened a children’s playground named “Ashibina Park” on the grounds of their community center in the suburbs of Lima on November...
November 21, 2018 Ryukyu Shimpo
A research team under Professor Shiro Maeda of the University of the Ryukyus Graduate School of Medicine made public that when compared genetically, people from Okinawa have a different genetic background than Japanese people from mainland Japan. Even within...
November 23, 2018 Ryukyu Shimpo
Expansion work on the airstrip simulating an LHD deck, a flight deck of an amphibious assault ship, at Iejima Auxiliary Airfield was recently finished. The U.S. Marine Corps explained to Ie Village and the Okinawa Defense Bureau that Marine Corps F-35B vertical...
November 22, 2018 Ryukyu Shimpo Digital Edition
On November 22, the Okinawa Defense Bureau (ODB) continued with carrying in the materials over land needed for the new base construction related to the relocation of the U.S. military Futenma Air Station to Henoko, Nago City. Since resuming transportation...
November 22, 2018 Ryukyu Shimpo
By Ryota Nakamura
Couples that come to Okinawa from abroad to submit their wedding registration and receive their wedding certificates in civil ceremonies referred to as “legal weddings” continues to increase and is taking hold on the island. In 2017,...
November 18, 2018 Ryukyu Shimpo
Hanayo Oya reports for the Ryukyu Shimpo
On November 16 the International Conference Against U.S./NATO Military Bases commenced in Dublin, Ireland.
The conference is attended by around 230 people from roughly thirty countries and regions worldwide...
November 18, 2018 Ryukyu Shimpo
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November 16, 2018 Ryukyu Shimpo
Around 4:00 p.m. on November 15 in Ginowan City, a KC-135 Stratotanker aerial refuelling aircraft flew in to Futenma Air Station and spent about 30 minutes flying at low altitudes over the area around the base.
On the same day,...
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