April 5, 2020 Ryukyu Shimpo
Miyako-jima, Okinawa—On April 5, the Japan Ground Self-Defense Force 15th Brigade held a ceremony to conclude the military structuring of Miyako-jima base in Ueno-nobaru, Miyako-jima City. The event was held against requests from the city and the local medical association to delay, given the recent spread of COVID-19. Locals staged a protest outside the main gate of the base, demanding the deployment of forces to stop. They handed a letter of...
April 6, 2020 Ryukyu Shimpo
A vital part of shimi in Okinawa, the tomb sweeping festival season, as well as the Bon festival, the peak season for manufacturing “uchikabi,” money for the afterlife, has arrived. Showa Seishi (Uruma), Okinawa’s only manufacturer of...
March 27, 2020 Ryukyu Shimpo
On the morning of March 27, the government held a meeting of relevant ministers, headed by Chief Cabinet Secretary Yoshihide Suga, to discuss the restoration of Shuri Castle at the Prime Minister’s official residence. The members of the meeting drew up a schedule...
March 31, 2020 Ryukyu Shimpo
Representatives from 12 economic organizations in Okinawa gathered at the Okinawa Harbor View Hotel in Naha March 31 for a Committee of Okinawan Economic Organizations meeting (Denichiro Ishimine, chair), where they asked Governor Denny Tamaki to enact emergency...
March 31, 2020 Ryukyu Shimpo
How should Henoko’s military base construction issue, stemming from the relocation of U.S. Marine Corps Air Station Futenma, be addressed? An expert panel recently provided an answer to this question.
Okinawa prefecture previously formed the “Bankoku...
March 27, 2020 Ryukyu Shimpo
Reject all things that beget war.
The tragedy that took the precious lives and wealth of Okinawans must not be forgotten, but passed on. We must renew this promise, to ensure peace in Okinawa.
The Battle of Okinawa began at the end of March in 1945,...
March 26, 2020 Ryukyu Shimpo
Regarding construction of the Futenma replacement facility in Henoko, Nago City as part of relocating MCAS Futenma, Okinawa’s lawsuit requesting cancellation of the Land Minister’s decision to cancel the Okinawa Prefectural Government (OPG)’s revocation...
March 25, 2020 Ryukyu Shimpo
On March 25 the Okinawa Peace Movement Center (Chairman Hiroji Yamashiro) held an action committee meeting, at which it was decided that the 43rd 5/15 Peace March would be cancelled.
This is the first time the peace march has been cancelled. The rally, which...
March 26, 2020 Ryukyu Shimpo
Naha Airport’s No. 2 runway, built by filling in land off the coast, opened for use March 26.
The runway’s first arrival, a flight from Skymark Airlines, touched down at 8:05 a.m., and was greeted by a water arch provided by a pair of firetrucks on either...
March 19, 2020 Ryukyu Shimpo
On March 19, Japan’s Council for Cultural Affairs made a recommendation to Koichi Hagiuda, the minister of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology, to designate the official history books of the Ryukyu Kingdom—the Chuzan Seikan (six volumes), Chuzan...
March 22, 2020 Ryukyu Shimpo
On March 21, former members of the “Henoko” Prefectural Referendum Association, who directly petitioned for the holding of the prefectural referendum in February 2019 on whether residents supported or opposed the land reclamation in Henoko, Nago as part of the...
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