July 23, 2012 Ryukyu Shimpo
From October 27 to November 18, the All Southern Okinawa Expo, in which people can enjoy sightseeing options featuring the tradition and culture of the southern part of Okinawa will be held for the first time. There will be peace-education programs, bus tours to visit communities holding dragon-boat races, and over 100 tourism options such as sightseeing in towns guided by the local residents. It is hoped that it will help to revitalize southern Okinawa using...
July 19, 2012 Ryukyu Shimpo
Five junior high-school students who belong to a football club in Nago, Escuela de Barbie Futbol, will go to Argentina for two weeks from August 10. They are looking forward to their experience in the home of football.
When he was in his teens, the head of...
July 25, 2012 Hideki Matsudo of Ryukyu Shimpo reports from Washington D.C.
On July 23, the head of the Executive Office of the Governor, Susumu Matayoshi, who is traveling in the United States, met with U.S. government officials and expressed the opposition of the Okinawa Prefectural Government...
July 19, 2012 Ryukyu Shimpo
The 100-year Project to create a forest of kuroki in Yomitan has started with the aim of planting young trees of ebony or kuroki for sanshin on an ongoing basis beyond the current generation. The project aims to produce sanshin...
July 15, 2012 Takahiro Shinjo, Correspondent of the Ryukyu Shimpo
On June 27, in an art class at Kaneshi Elementary School in Nakijin, 26 sixth-grade pupils took part in a special workshop, to create models of their dream shop. The children designed a variety of shops for motorcycles, cars,...
July 21, 2012 Maki Nagamine of Ryukyu Shimpo
The volume of production is increasing of peucedanum japonicum, or the longevity herb, a Yonaguni Island herb long known to have medicinal properties. From 2005 to 2010, annual production in Okinawa has grown 8.1 times to 26.6 tons, and the area...
July 18, 2012 Ryukyu Shimpo
This year, at a bioethanol production factory at Shimoji, Miyako-jima City Tokyo-based merchandising company the Japan Alcohol Corporation will commence ethanol production and research into the conversion of byproducts into fertilizer. In 2010, at a cost of approximately...
July 18, 2012 Kenta Masuda of Ryukyu Shimpo
Sol-T-shine, a dance group from the Tida Dance Studio in Chatan, gained entry to the World Hip-Hop Championship 2012 to be held on August 1 in Las Vegas, which is known as the dance Olympics.
The group consists of eight elementary school and...
July 18, 2012 Ryukyu Shimpo
On November 17, Defense Minister Satoshi Morimoto commented that he had no accurate data on the flight distance capability of the MV-22 Osprey vertical take-off and landing transport aircraft using autorotation to avoid dangerous situations in an emergency. This...
July 22, 2012 Taichi Hirayasu of Ryukyu Shimpo
Chatan resident Shigeo Teruya, a self-employed worker who collects Okinawan valuable paper materials, acquired tickets and commuter passes of the street-car that operated in Okinawa for about 20 years from 1914. Referring to the fact that the street-car...
July 16, 2012 Wakako Oshiro of Ryukyu Shimpo
Kuroki (kuruchi or Ryukyu kokutan) is an essential material for making the famous Okinawan musical instrument, the sanshin. To change the current situation that most kuroki are imported, “Kuruchi...
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