September 28, 2015 Ryukyu Shimpo
A contest to select the king and queen for the Shuri Castle Festival 2015 was held at a hotel in Naha. The Okinawa Commemorative National Government Park hosts this event annually.
Thirty-four-year-old Takahito Iraha was elected as the new king and twenty-one-year-old Rika Ikeda as the new queen.
There were 45 applications, including 17 applications for the king and 45 for the queen.
They will attend a swearing-in ceremony on October...
September 9, 2015 Mifuyu Hattori Correspondent of Ryukyu Shimpo
Hiroshi Miyazato, the head of Ura district in Kunigami, has two dogs, 7-year-old Butch and three-year-old Charo. They are always with their owner Miyazato and his wife, and love to help their owners with work on the farm.
On...
September 18, 2015 Ryukyu Shimpo
On September 17, Chairman Moritake Tomikawa of the Okinawa East Asia Economic Strategy Initiative Development Committee, one of the main pillars of Governor Takeshi Onaga’s economic policy, presented the governor with a report detailing initiatives including...
September 24, 2015 Tomoki Yasutomi of Ryukyu Shimpo
The Ministry of Defense has announced its intention to grant research funds (with an annual maximum of 30,000,000 yen) as part of a system toward investigating the practicality of applying military technology to counter small drone and cyber...
September 18, 2015 Ryukyu Shimpo
On September 18 at the Okinawa Prefectural Museum, an “Endangered Languages and Dialects Summit” was held. People concerned about the dying out of eight languages listed as endangered by UNESCO discussed how the languages could be passed down to...
September 17, 2015 Ryukyu Shimpo Sakae Toiyama reports from Washington D.C.
In the evening of September 15, the City Assembly of Berkeley California unanimously resolved to oppose the planned relocation of the U.S. Marine Corps Air Station Futenma to the Henoko district of Nago, and promote...
September 22, 2015 Ryukyu Shimpo Ryota Shimabukuro reports from Geneva
On the morning of September 21, the symposium Militarization and Human Rights Violations in Okinawa opened at the United Nations European Headquarters in Geneva, Switzerland. Governor Onaga spoke first at the symposium for...
September 22, 2015 Ryukyu Shimp Ryota Shimabukuro reports from Geneva
On September 21, shortly after 5:00 p.m., Governor Takeshi Onaga gave a speech at the United Nations Human Rights Council in Geneva, Switzerland, speaking about the fact that Okinawans do not agree to the new base construction...
Okinawa Governor Takeshi Onaga will make speech at the UN Human Rights Council (HRC) in Geneva, Switzerland on September 21 and 22.
It will be the first time a prefectural governor from Japan has taken the stage. The speech is an opportunity for the governor to reveal the crises in Okinawa,...
September 8, 2015 Ryukyu Shimpo
On September 7, the Jaran Research Center, a domestic tourism research institute operated by Recruit Life Style, released “The Jaran Travel Survey 2015.” Okinawa Prefecture has ranked the best in overall satisfaction level for seven years in...
September 14, 2015 Ryukyu Shimpo
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