March 22, 2019 Ryukyu Shimpo Digital Edition
On March 22, the Japan Art Academy (director: Senji Kuroi) announced eight recipients of the 2018 Japan Art Academy Prize to honor talented artists.
One of the recipients was the Okinawan Kumiodori performer Noho Miyagi, 80, of Yonabaru, who is designated a Living National Treasure.
It was the first time an Okinawan has received the award. Noho Miyagi was lauded for his “performative expression through masterful technique in Kumiodori...
March 27, 2019 Ryukyu Shimpo
On March 25 at a plenary session of the Iwate Prefectural Assembly, the ruling coalition including the Social Democratic Party and the Japanese Communist Party adopted by majority vote a written statement titled “Request that land reclamation work in Henoko...
March 25, 2019 Ryukyu Shimpo online edition
On March 25 at 2:58 p.m. the Okinawa Defense Bureau (ODB) began initial soil deposits into a land reclamation section on the Henoko side of Cape Henoko, as part of construction of the Futenma Replacement Facility (FRF) in Henoko, Nago City.
Following...
March 23, 2019 Ryukyu Shimpo
Okinawa Prefecture has filed a lawsuit against Japan March 22 at the Fukuoka High Court Naha Branch naming as defendant Minister of Land, Infrastructure, Transport, and Tourism (MLIT) Keiichi Ishii, demanding he overturn his injunction ending the efficacy of Okinawa’s...
March 26, 2019 Ryukyu Shimpo
Shinya Yamanaka, recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize in Physiology or Medicine, and director of Kyoto University’s Center for IPS Cell Research and Application, gave a talk at the Ryukyu Shimpo Hall in Naha city on March 25.
Yamanaka used simple words to...
March 21, 2019 Ryukyu Shimpo
On March 18, Japan’s Council for Cultural Affairs submitted a report to the Minister of Education, Culture, Spots, Science and Technology Masahiko Shibayama.
The report recommends that “The 41 Materials and Documents Related to the Sho Royal Family of...
March 21, 2019 Ryukyu Shimpo
The remains of 63 Okinawans taken from the island by an Imperial University anthropologist in the early Showa era, were finally returned to Okinawa March 20 from the National Taiwan University, where they were being held.
According to the Okinawa Board of...
March 20, 2019 Ryukyu Shimpo
Prior to starting construction on the Futenma Replacement Facility (FRF) in Henoko, Nago City, the Okinawa Defense Bureau (ODB) conducted a dugong survey and confirmed the presence of three dugong specimens.
Since construction in the ocean began the whereabouts...
March 18, 2019 Ryukyu Shimpo
Recently it came to the Ryukyu Shimpo’s attention that due to an expanse of soft seafloor north of the land reclamation area, the Okinawa Defense Bureau (ODB) has abandoned its plan to establish three “marine work yards” there, for construction of...
March 19, 2019 Ryukyu Shimpo online edition
In April 2016 the Akutagawa Prize-winning author Shun Medoruma was captured by the United States military during his participation in protest activities against construction of the new base in Henoko, Nago City.
Medoruma was subjected to violations...
March 17, 2019 Ryukyu Shimpo
On March 16, the All Okinawa Coalition to Prevent Construction of a New Base in Henoko held a rally called “No soil dumping! 3/16 Okinawan people’s rally to protect the dugong and coral and demand a stop to the Henoko new base construction” at the Naha Shintoshin...
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