Ukrainian Balokhin wins the Miyakojima triathlon for the first time
April 16, 2012 Ryukyu Shimpo
On April 15, the 28th All Japan Triath about us lon Miyakojima (co-hosted...
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Three high school graduates from Shiga visit to see their host family in Izena again
April 16, 2012 Kyoko Agarie Correspondent of the Ryukyu Shimpo
Attracted by the nature and people of Izena, three young women from Shiga Prefecture, Chigusa Akata, Kaho Isobe, and Miki Kojima, who had come to the island on a school trip when they were in their second year of high school, visited Izena again after having graduated. They enjoyed spending time with local residents as they reminisced about the memories of their school trip,
“The sea was beautiful and people were very...
Town tour guide project starts in Nago
April 10, 2012 Correspondent Yoshikatsu Miyagi of the Ryukyu Shimpo
From April to October, 2012, the Nago Tourism Association and the Japan Travel Bureau (JTB) Okinawa will run a town tour guide project in Nago in the north of Okinawa. On April 3, the first four tourists on this project, parents...
Disposal of unexploded ordnance at Shuri High School forces more than 2000 people to evacuate
April 16, 2012 Ryukyu Shimpo
Just before 11:00am on April 15 in the grounds of Shuri High School in the Mawashi area of Shuri, Naha, Ground Self-Defense Force personnel disposed of an unexploded WWII U.S. 250 kilogram shell (120 centimeters long and 36 centimeters in diameter). The shell had...
Sakatas close their domestic study program the Warabiya and move to Ogimi
April 8, 2012 by Hideaki Yoneda, correspondent of Ryukyu Shimpo
Ryuji and Akiko Sakata, a couple who moved to Tokashiki from Kudaka in 2007, ran the Warabiya juku as the first domestic study program in Tokashiki, finished accepting students in 2011. They then moved to Ogimi in northern Okinawa...
Students complete a course in Okinawan traditional dress-fitting and hair-arrangement
April 12, 2012 Ryukyu Shimpo
On April 9, at the Shikinaen garden in Naha, the Toshiko Chinen Ryubu-dojo and Ryusogakuin Institute held a graduation ceremony for students who had completed the course in ryuso and karajiyui or Okinawan traditional dress and hair-arrangement. At the course,...
History book on human rights in Okinawa published
April 9, 2012 Ryukyu Shimpo
To mark the 50th anniversary of its establishment, the Okinawa Human Rights Association, which was established when Okinawa was under U.S. military administration and has since been involved in the protection of human rights for the people of Okinawa, has published...
Okinawa rail photographed eating its lunch
April 6, 2012 Ryukyu Shimpo
In the afternoon of April 5, photographs were taken of an Okinawa rail, a national natural treasure, looking for food on an old road in the Yambaru forest in the northern part of Okinawa. Wild birds in the Yambaru forest are now entering their mating season. The...
Oura Ward erects a monument to commemorate the Chile Tsunami
April 11, 2012
In order to commemorate the tsunami in Chile in 1960, Oura Ward in Nago set up a monument at Asagi-Mae Park. The Great East Japan Earthquake made 82 year-old Jun Higa think that it is important to pass down the experience of the Chile tsunami to future generations. A group of...
Induction courses held in Tokashiki
April 13, 2012 Hideaki Yoneda, correspondent of the Ryukyu Shimpo
With the beginning of a new academic year, on April 5, high schools, colleges, technical schools and companies in Okinawa commenced induction courses at the National Okinawa Youth Friendship Center in Tokashiki.
A total...
Couple from Macao hold underwater marriage ceremony in the sea off Okinawa
April 10, 2012
On April 5, at Seragaki in Onna, a couple from Macao held an underwater marriage ceremony in Okinawa, a place they love dearly. The bride and groom, Wong Si Wai and Leong Lap Chong both said, “It was just fantastic!”
Wearing a wedding dress and tuxedo over their wet...
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