April 11, 2012 Ryukyu Shimpo
On April 6, a huge sign stating, “The town with the biggest Taco Rice in the world” was placed in Kin, with mayor Tsuyoshi Gibu declaring the town to be the “town of taco rice.” Taco rice was thought up in Parlor Senri in the restaurant area called Shinkaichi in front of the U.S. Marine Corps Base Camp Hansen in 1984 and since then has spread all over Okinawa and Japan.
In 2010, the Kin Society of Commerce and Industry made the world biggest dish...
April 9, 2012 Ryukyu Shimpo
April 8 was the first Sunday of the Shimi Festival season, when the people of Okinawa celebrate ancestral spirits on the lunar calendar. The Shikina Cemetery in Naha was crowded with families offering foods, including tempura and rice cakes. Participants...
April 11, 2012 Ryukyu Shimpo
In the morning on April 10, a number of Boeing F/A-18 Hornet aircraft, the type that crashed in Virginia on April 6, flew to U.S. Marine Corps Air Station Futenma in Ginowan. Among the 12 aircraft that flew to the base, four are based at Iwakuni Air Station (Iwakuni,...
April 4, 2012 Ryukyu Shimpo
Yoshimoto Kogyo, a well known Japanese entertainment company has suggested to the Japanese government and the Okinawa Prefectural Government (OPG) that land previously occupied by U.S. bases should be used to promote Okinawa to the world as a creative hub for the...
April 4, 2012 Ryukyu Shimpo
On April 1, at Oku in Kunigami, tea picking and bagging was held for a project to present the first-picked tea, the earliest tea picking in Japan, to areas stricken by the Great East Japan Earthquake as spring gifts. The Fan Club of the Local Community-based Cooperative...
April 9, 2012 Tomoya Kohatsu of the Ryukyu Shimpo
On April 8, the Ryukyu America Historical Research Society acquired 151 photographs of scenes in Okinawa during the period from directly after World War II to the 1960s. The collection includes photographs of people and scenery all over Okinawa...
April 2, 2012 Tomoko Oharu of the Ryukyu Shimpo
A survey carried out by the University of the Ryukyus indicates that the noise from the Marine Corps Air Station Futenma exceeded 100 decibels in the classrooms of the Second Futenma Elementary School, which is located next to the air base, Ginowan...
April 8, 2012 Ryukyu Shimpo
On April 7, a sightseeing tour began to put people on to the Yabiji coral reef during the spring tide in the sea north of Ikema Island, Miyako. Guided by two water carrier companies from Miyako, about 500 tourists enjoyed exploring Yabiji. These tours will run...
April 2, 2012 Ryukyu Shimpo
An incident of group suicide (shudan jiketsu), in which the Japanese military ordered or compelled 83 civilians to commit suicide occurred at Chibichiri Gama (a natural cave) in Namihira, Yomitan Village on April 2, 1945 soon after the U.S. forces...
March 29, 2012 Ryukyu Shimpo
On March 28, Naha Mayor Onaga announced that the city’s Uchinaguchi greeting campaign will commence from next month. Office staff members welcome citizens visiting the municipal office in Uchinaguchi. Mayor Onaga said, “Uchinaguchi...
March 31, 2012 Yoko Morinaga, correspondent of the Ryukyu Shimpo
A project called Okinawa Hope 21 that aims to accept children from Fukushima into a recreation center in Kumejima is about to commence. On March 30, a press conference to announce the project was held at Yamashiro, Kumejima on...
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