January 6, 2020 Ryukyu Shimpo
On the morning of January 6, when government offices start work, Okinawa Governor Denny Tamaki delivered a New Year’s greeting broadcast from the governor’s reception office in the Prefectural Office.
In a message to government workers, he said, “I want department heads to act centrally in carrying out our duties as public servants to all prefectural citizens, in order to realize a society in which no one is left behind”.
Governor...
January 8, 2020 Ryukyu Shimpo
A collaboration of research teams from organizations that include private businesses, the University of the Ryukyus, and Nagasaki University launched a project to survey ocean garbage coming ashore using satellites, drones, and fixed cameras on January 7.
The...
January 9, 2020 Ryukyu Shimpo
Pork dishes are indispensable to Okinawan cuisine—Okinawa soba, san-mai niku (braised pork belly), tebichi (stewed pork feet), soki-jiru (pork spare ribs soup) and mimiga (crunchy pig’s ear), to name a few.
The news of Classical Swine Fever (CSF),...
January 6, 2020 Ryukyu Shimpo
A charity concert was held on Jan. 5 by actress Sayuri Yoshinaga and musician Ryuichi Sakamoto at the Okinawa Convention Center Theater in Ginowan City.
Sakamoto’s sophisticated piano performance and Yoshinaga’s poetry reading, which spoke to the preciousness...
Satoko Oka Norimatsu
As we approach the 75th anniversary year of the end of World War II and the Asia-Pacific War, I would like to write about the war experience of two Canadian men who died this year.
One is Marius van Dijk van Nooten, who died on August 23 at age 88 in White Rock,...
January 4, 2020 Ryukyu Shimpo
On the afternoon of January 3, world-renowned musician Ryuichi Sakamoto, 67, visited the sea area where a new military base is being constructed off the coast of Henoko, Nago.
“There is no justification for destroying this beautiful natural environment...
January 5, 2020 Ryukyu Shimpo
Tokyo – The Ministry of Defense (MoD) has decided to postpone two projects appropriated for 2019 related to the new base construction in Henoko, Nago City, such as the redirection of a waterway that runs through Camp Schwab.
This was done in order to...
January 1, 2020 Ryukyu Shimpo
It is now 2020. We hope this year becomes one in which Okinawans demonstrate their autonomy and rebuild the extremely shaky foundations of democracy.
In the House of Representatives, the ruling party holds an absolute majority. It feels as though the National...
January 1, 2020 Ryukyu Shimpo
Shuri Castle Park’s annual New Year’s Banquet (Shinshun no Utage), a three-day festivity, held during the first three days of each New Year, opened again this year on park grounds on January 1, in Naha City, Okinawa.
It is the first New Year’s Banquet...
January 1, 2020 Ryukyu Shimpo
By Shun Furukawa
With currently no true rival in the world, Karateka Ryo Kiyuna is considered the Japanese athlete with the best chance of taking home a gold medal at the 2020 Tokyo Olympics.
While most only the world champion’s face makes its way...
December 27, 2019 Ryukyu Shimpo
The Ministry of Defense announced that new base construction at Henoko in Nago city would have an estimated total construction cost of around 930 billion yen, and would take approximately 12 years to complete. Due to soft ground conditions in Oura Bay spreading,...
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