October 4, 2015 Ryukyu Shimpo
The 13th national Okinawa Kenjinkai exchange meeting was held on October 3 in Tokyo. About 230 representatives from 18 organizations and Okinawa Governor Takeshi Onaga attended the meeting.
The meeting is held by the Tokyo Okinawa Kenjinkai every two years, when representatives from organizations across the country get together in order to deepen their friendship.
Takeo Nakamatsu, the chairman of the Tokyo Okinawa Kenjinkai, said in his greeting...
September 30, 2015 Sakae Toiyama of Ryukyu Shimpo reports from Washington D.C.
On the afternoon of September 28, the governments of the United States and Japan concluded a supplementary environmental agreement regarding the performance of on-site surveys within US military base compounds. Japanese...
October 1, 2015 Sakae Toiyama of Ryukyu Shimpo reports from Washington D.C.
On September 29, the US Congress Joint Committee on Armed Services presented the final version of the National Defense Authority Act (NDAA) for Fiscal Year 2016 (October 2015-September 2016). The previous House of Representatives...
October 1, 2015 Ryukyu Shimpo
On September 30, a trial hearing of a case involving 79 survivors and survival family members embroiled in the Battle of Okinawa has concluded at Naha District Court. The plaintiffs filed for damages against the Japanese government. The decision will be given on...
October 2, 2015 Ryukyu Shimpo
The Yamashina Institute for Ornithology in Chiba Prefecture announced that a seabird found at the Kanucha Golf Course in Abu, Nago City was a Bridled Tern that had flown from Nakhiloo Island in Iran. The bird was found in October last year and died after it was...
October 1, 2015 Ryukyu Shimpo
In front of the gate at Camp Schwab in Nago, citizens continue to stage a sit-in-protest against the construction of an alternative base for U.S. Marine Corps Futenma Air Station, which the Japanese and US governments want to relocate to Oura Bay, off the coast...
September 19, 2015 Ryukyu Shimpo
Taketomi Town Office will mark ‘Iriomote Yamaneko no Hi’ (Iriomote Wild Cat Day) on April 15 of every year. This year was the 50th anniversary of the discovery of the Iriomote Wild Cat, a special national treasure. The wild cat can only be found...
October 1, 2015 Ryukyu Shimpo
On September 30, the Okinawa Prefectural Government (OPG) decided that it would apply the Disaster Relief Act to Yonaguni Island, where more than 300 houses were damaged by Typhoon No.21 or Super Typhoon Dujuan.
The typhoon registered a maximum instantaneous...
September 10, 2015 Ryukyu Shimpo
President of the Japan Research Institute, Jitsuro Terashima, gave a talk titled “Summer 70-Years After the War, Strategic Perspective on Okinawa: beyond Security Legislation” on September 9 at Palette Civic Theater in Naha City.
Three hundred...
September 23, 2015 Ryukyu Shimpo
The 2015 World Eisa Competition sponsored by Urasoe City held its main event, the original eisa contest, on September 22 at National Theatre Okinawa in Urasoe City. Tijinshu Wakat-da from Urasoe City won the group’s grand first prize. CHURASA from Itoman...
September 29, 2015 Ryukyu Shimpo Sakae Toiyama reports from Washington DC
On September 27, the Association of Comprehensive Studies for Independence of the Lew Chewans (ACSILs), an organization engaged in interdisciplinary research aiming to achieve Ryukyuan independence from Japan, held a...
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