October 10, 2012 Ryukyu Shimpo
The non-profit organization called Hamasuuki, which is based in Nishizaki, Itoman, and runs the Itoman Uminchu Koubou Museum and Arts and Craft Center, was commissioned by the Ocean Expo Park to manufacture two traditional Okinawan sabani canoes. On October 4, at the Arts and Craft Center, Hamasuuki held a ceremony to pray for safety before they begin manufacturing these canoes. It has been three years since the last sabani was manufactured...
October 11, 2012 Ryukyu Shimpo
On October 10, Takeyoshi Shimoji, the deputy director general responsible for Environmental Planning in the Okinawa Prefectural Government (OPG), suggested that now that the Osprey have been deployed, the Ministry of Defense should carry out another environmental...
October 11, 2012 Ryukyu Shimpo
On October 10, the design committee of the Okinawa Craft Industrial Promotion Council held its second meeting at the Okinawa Prefectural Government office. In the meeting, they decided that the sanshin is appropriate to be handled under the prefectural...
October 12, 2012 Ryukyu Shimpo
The ongoing territorial dispute over the Senkaku Islands or Diaoyutais, has caused an increase in cancellations of Chinese visitors to Japan. On October 10, the Legend of the Seas, a cruise ship from Shanghai, docked at Naha Port before departing for Amoy later...
October 17, 2012 Ryukyu Shimpo
In the morning of October 17, Okinawa Governor Hirokazu Nakaima met with Defense Minister Satoshi Morimoto to strongly protest about the case in which two U.S. sailors have been charged with rape. The governor asked the minister to make the U.S. military prevent...
October 17, 2012 Ryukyu Shimpo
On October 16, the Okinawa prefectural police arrested two U.S. Navy sailors who belong to Naval Air Station Fort Worth in Texas, on suspicion of a sexual assault on and injury to a woman. The police say that one of the sailors has admitted the acts of violence,...
October 5, 2012, Ryukyu Shimpo
On September 20, at the exhibition at the Okinawa City Gallery Postwar Culture and History called “Histreet,” the Okinawa Municipal Historiographic Office held its regular monthly meeting of the Society for Postwar History. Meijo Nakachi, the editor...
October 4, 2012 Ryukyu Shimpo
On September 30, which is August 15 in the lunar calendar, the dedicatory dance usudeku, which was first performed more than three centuries years ago, was performed in Chibana, Okinawa City. With a shishi (effigy of a lion-dog), which had been...
October 12, 2012 Ryukyu Shimpo
Stating that the idea is “unrealistic,” Defense Minister Satoshi Morimoto is reported to have rejected the Okinawa Prefectural government’s request for the deployment of the Osprey aircraft to bases throughout the nation. At his press conference...
October 9, 2012 Ryukyu Shimpo
On October 6, the Motobu Commerce and Industry Association (MCIA) held a Soba Fair at Motobu, which since 2010 has been promoting itself as the home of Okinawa soba. In the fair, they provided 1000 free servings of Okinawa soba made using...
October 5, 2012 Ryukyu Shimpo
From November 17, Asiana Airlines, which already operates a Naha-Seoul route, will start regular flights between Naha and Busan. They plan to have two shuttle flights a week operating by March 30, 2013. Given that demand for flights to Okinawa goes up in winter,...
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