May 22, 2020 Ryukyu Shimpo
On May 21, while elementary and junior high schools in various regions of Okinawa held opening ceremonies and school entrance ceremonies, U.S. military aircraft successively took off from and landed at Futenma Air Station. On this day, noise measurements taken by University of the Ryukyus Associate Professor Takeshi Tokashiki recorded noise at 87.4 decibels at 11:16 a.m. and 84.8 decibels at 10:22 a.m. at Futenma Daini Elementary School. The Ginowan city government...
May 18, 2020 Ryukyu Shimpo
Kitanakagusuku—the non-profit organization Ryukyu America Historical Research Society (chaired by Shizuo Alex Kishaba) released 207 color photographs taken between 1952 and 1954 in a press release held at Ayakari no Mori on May 15. The pictures show...
May 16, 2020 Ryukyu Shimpo
March marked the second month in a row, following February, in which sounds appearing to be dugong calls were recorded by an underwater recording device installed in the ocean at the Henoko base construction site, where a base is being built as part of the relocation...
May 17, 2020 Ryukyu Shimpo
By Yuki Nakamura
At Sunset Farm Okinawa in Gima, Yomitan, 50,000 sunflowers planted in artificially-lit chrysanthemum fields have blossomed, bringing new scenery to the farm. To make use of the farmland after the chrysanthemums have shipped, sunflower seeds...
May 14, 2020 Ryukyu Shimpo
By Akira Manato
It came to light on May 13 that the U.S. Marine Corps has started refurbishment work on a runway and airstrips on Iejima Auxiliary Airfield in Ie Village, Okinawa. Construction is scheduled for completion by late June. On a website...
May 14, 2020 Ryukyu Shimpo Digital Edition
Okinawa – The Okinawa Zento Eisa Matsuri executive committee announced May 14 that they would be canceling the 65th Okinawa Zento Eisa Matsuri (hosted by the executive committee: Okinawa City, Ryukyu Shimpo Co. Ltd., Okinawa Television,...
May 15, 2020 Ryukyu Shimpo
On May 14, a day before the 48th anniversary of Okinawa’s reversion to Japan, Governor Denny Tamaki issued a statement in which he pledged to: “Continue addressing the challenges facing Okinawa, such as economic disparity with the rest of Japan,...
May 14, 2020 Ryukyu Shimpo
After a huge rainstorm the day before caused by a rainy season front, Okinawa Island was enclosed in an anticyclone and enjoyed a sunny break in the rain on May 13. Even Ishigaki Island, which experienced record rainfall, was mostly sunny. In Ishigaki...
May 12, 2020 Ryukyu Shimpo Digital Edition
In the early morning on May 12, the atmosphere became extremely unstable as a result of the onset of the rainy season, and torrential rain fell primarily around the Yaeyama region. As of 7:00 a.m., record-breaking rainfall of 125 mm/hr...
May 12, 2020 Ryukyu Shimpo
An incident in which two Chinese coast guard ships entered the waters near the Senkaku Islands to approach a Japanese fishing boat belonging to the Yonaguni Fishing Cooperative operating about 12 kilometers west-southwest from Uotsuri Island was reported...
May 11, 2020 Ryukyu Shimpo
On May 11, the Okinawa Meteorological Observatory announced that Okinawa appeared to have entered the rainy season. Okinawa is the second regional area of Japan to enter the wet season, following the Amami area which entered its rainy season...
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