February 16, 2020 Ryukyu Shimpo Digital Edition
Chubu – The 28th 2020 Okinawa Marathon (co-hosted by Chubu Large Area Municipal Corp, the Ryukyu Shimpo Co. Ltd., Okinawa Television, the Japan Association of Athletics Federations (JAAF) Okinawa, and the Okinawa Comprehensive Athletic Park management joint venture TrusTec and Mizuno) was held February 16, starting and finishing at the Okinawa Comprehensive Athletic Park.
The event was sponsored by Aeon Mall Okinawa Rycom, Daiichi...
February 16, 2020 Ryukyu Shimpo
The event Ryukyu Buyo and Kumiodori was held on February 15 at Shurijo Castle Park in Naha City to celebrate the 300th anniversary of kumiodori (traditional Okinawan dance) and to offer prayers for the reconstruction of Shuri Castle.
The event was organized...
February 11, 2020 Ryukyu Shimpo
February 9 saw the start of joint excavation work by youth from Japan, South Korea, and Taiwan (organized by the Kenken Remains Excavation Joint Action Committee) on land in Kenken, Motobu where the remains of fourteen people, including two Koreans, were buried...
February 5, 2020 Ryukyu Shimpo
The spread of a pneumonia brought about by the corona virus has had an ever-increasing impact on the global economy, and it has cast a large shadow over the economy of Okinawa, which had previously been enjoying continued growth in their tourism industry.
Okinawa...
February 12, 2020 Ryukyu Shimpo
By Kazuki Furugen
Manabu Kochi is an artist from Naha who lives in France.
Recently, he completed a painting imbued with the grief he feels at the loss of Shuri Castle, which burned down in late October of last year, and his hopes for its reconstruction....
February 14, 2020 Ryukyu Shimpo
A U.S. Navy F/A-18 fighter-attack aircraft (based in Marine Corps Air Station Iwakuni) lost its fuel door (panel covering the fuel tank) during an exercise conducted on Kadena Air Base.
On February 13, the U.S. Naval Forces Japan effectively admitted...
February 13, 2020 Ryukyu Shimpo
On the evening of February 11, a light phenomenon in which light appears in the sky horizontal to the sun, called a “parhelion (genjitsu)”, was observed in Naha City and Urasoe City.
The light appearing to both sides of the sun made it seem as though...
February 12, 2020 Ryukyu Shimpo
The town of Kin (Hajime Nakama, mayor) and the city of Honolulu (Kirk Caldwell, mayor), signed a friendship agreement on February 11 at Honolulu City Hall as part of a celebration of Okinawa’s first emigrants to Hawaii from Kin 120 years ago.
They will...
February 2, 2020 Ryukyu Shimpo
The Japan Ground Self Defense Force’s Amphibious Rapid Deployment Brigade conducted a joint exercise together with the U.S. military at Kin Blue Beach Training Area in Kin, Okinawa, on February 9, which was open to the news media. It is the first time for the...
February 10, 2020 by Ryukyu Shimpo Digital Edition
Livestock farmers in Okinawa gathered amid the spread of Classic Swine Fever (CSF) to hold the 2nd CSF prevention conference at the Okinawa Prefectural Office February 10.
To protect the rare, Okinawan-native Agu pig from contracting...
February 7, 2020 Ryukyu Shimpo
By Mariko Nakamura, Shohei Tsukazaki
Secilil Eldebechel, 51, chief of staff to the president of Palau, visited Okinawa to strengthen Okinawa-Palau ties, but he had another reason to visit—to discover his grandfather’s Okinawan roots. Indeed, Eldebechel...
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