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December 25, 2011 Ryukyu Shimpo
The Ministry of Defense announced on December 24 that it has allocated around one billion yen from the annual budget for fiscal 2012 for site acquisition to deploy a coastal monitoring team of the Japan Ground Self-Defense Force on Yonaguni Island.
Considering the fact that the U.S. Senate and the House of Representatives agreed to cut funding for the planned relocation of the U.S. Marines from Okinawa to Guam, which is supposed to happen in tandem...
December 21, 2011 Ryukyu Shimpo
On December 19, Misato High School broadcasting club completed a documentary film entitled Koza ga moeta hi (The day Koza burned), which was produced to commemorate the 40th anniversary last year of the Koza Riot. Additional interviews and some revisions...
December 21, 2011 Ryukyu Shimpo
In the 2010 fiscal year the number of annual passengers on civilian aircraft using Naha Airport was calculated to be 14225909, putting it in the top five of the approximately 90 airports in the country. While the airport ranked seventh in the 2008 fiscal year,...
December 21, 2011 Ryukyu Shimpo
On December 20, the Ministry of Defense responded to questions posed by the Okinawa Prefectural Government (OPG) with regard to “The role and importance of the United States Forces in Japan including the Marines Corps.” The Defense Ministry booklet...
December 21, 2011 Ryukyu Shimpo
On December 15, a presentation on the Korea-Okinawa Friendship Junior Golf Camp in Okinawa, which was selected by the Okinawa-ken Government from among submissions from the public as a project for sport tourism, was held at a hotel in Seoul. It is hoped that...
On Christmas Eve, a Peace Candle service was held in front of the No. 1 gate of Camp Schwab at Henoko in Nago. The service has been held there every Saturday evening by residents who wish to preserve the sea of Henoko and to persuade the government to cancel plans to construct the replacement facility...
December 16, 2011 Ryukyu Shimpo
On February 19 next year, the Okinawa International Animation Contents Summit, featuring attractions of animation and content, and including events such as a world-class museum of Japanese animation contents, a panel exhibition of the Ultraman Series, live performances...
December 20, 2011
On December 19, prominent Okinawan intellectuals held a press conference to publically agree with the statement accepted unanimously by the prefectural assembly in November on “Opposition to the relocation of Futenma Air Station to Henoko, and to submit a statement asking...
December 19, 2011 Ryukyu Shimpo
Students with no experience of war are passing on stories of the Battle of Okinawa and speaking to members of the next generation about the meaning of peace. The group is called Kataritsugibe, and is make up of student volunteers from the University...
December 17, 2011 Ryukyu Shimpo
On December 16 at the Prefectural Government Offices, representatives of Yomitan Kururu Resort Okinawa, which manages the Taiken Okoku Murasaki Mura in Yomitan, met with executives from four other firms and announced that they will commence a model project to...
December 15, 2011 Ryukyu Shimpo
On December 14 at the prefectural government offices, a war victim group filing a collective lawsuit with the central government for an apology and compensation to civilian casualties in the Battle of Okinawa, made its stance clear on a war victim assistance...
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