August 12, 2012 Ryukyu Shimpo
On August 10, at the Okinawa Prefectural Office, a press conference for a movie entitled Penguin Fufu was held with the actual couple and members of the cast present. The movie tells the story of their bond as a married couple and depicts many interesting episodes from their life together. When Airi, who hails from Tokyo, married her husband Gyoko, who is from China, she assumed his surname, “Penguin,” (actually “Pengin”) and they...
August 15, 2012 Hideki Matsudo of Ryukyu Shimpo reports from Washington D.C.
On the topic of the Futenma relocation issue, in his report published in June 2011, Bruce Klingner, a senior research fellow for Northeast Asia in the Asian Studies Center at the Heritage Foundation, suggested that...
August 7, 2010 Ryukyu Shimpo
On August 1, the opening ceremony for the 27th South America Youth Internship was held at Ginoza Village International Exchange Center. Its goal was to welcome three young people from Argentina, Brazil, and Peru who are descendants of migrants from Ginoza Village.
This...
August 6, 2012 Ryukyu Shimpo
An engineer team from Modena in Italy that participated in the World Solar Challenge race held in October 2011 in Australia presented a model car to Team Okinawa, the first Okinawan team to take part in the world’s largest solar-powered car race. The model car...
August 3, 2012 Ryukyu Shimpo
From August 13, the Okinawa City Tourism Association and Otsuka Foods, a company producing the Japanese well-known retort-pouched goods Bon-curry, will sell a jointly planned product called Kyu-bon curry.
The Bon-curry is sold in Okinawa as a limited...
August 6, 2012 Akiko Yasuhara, Correspondent of Ryukyu Shimpo
The 1st Worldwide Youth Uchinanchu Festival Brazil 2011, started in Sao Paulo on July 25 with about 150 people from seven countries participating in the five-day long event. The participants were mainly young Uchina...
August 4, 2012 Maki Nagamine of Ryukyu Shimpo
Meat distributor Maruichi Meat is about to commence regular supply of agu pork, a traditional breed of Ryukyuan pig, to the Sogo Department Store in Hong Kong. Maruichi Meat has exported agu pork to Hong Kong in the past, and this...
July 31, 2012 Akiko Yasuhara Correspondent of Ryukyu Shimpo
On July 29, at the Brazil Okinawa Cultural Center in Sao Paulo, a local festival was held bringing the 1st Worldwide Youth Uchinanchu Festival 2012 to an end. A total of 150 young people from seven different countries celebrated...
July 23, 2012 Sadao Tome Correspondent of Ryukyu Shimpo
“Go out and make the five continents into our home.” In 1898, Kyuzo Toyama, “the father-figure of Okinawan immigrants,” and 26 migrant workers from Kin Town arrived in Hawaii. In 1902, Kyuzo’s younger brother, Matasuke, landed...
July 30, 2012 Akiko Yasuhara Correspondent of Ryukyu Shimpo in Brazil
On July 28, the closing ceremony of the 1st Worldwide Youth Uchinanchu Festival was held at the Okinawa Kenjin-Kaikan in Sao Paulo, Brazil. About 150 people participated in the festival from seven countries, discussing...
August 4, 2012 Ryukyu Shimpo
On July 27, Eiju Miyara from Miyara, Ishigaki and four pupils from Miyara Elementary School repainted the 730 (representing July 30) monument and cleaned the surrounding area to commemorate the anniversary of July 30, 1978, when the road rules switched from people...
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