May 8, 2019 Ryukyu Shimpo
In a video message released by Prime Minister Abe Shinzo May 3, he announced his intention to revise Article 9 of the Japanese Constitution, including an explicit reference to the Japanese Self Defense Forces (JSDF), and stated that he was sticking to the goal of carrying out the revision by 2020. However, the calls from Japan’s citizens demanding this revision happen are not getting any louder. For the Abe administration and Diet ruling Liberal Democratic Party...
May 8, 2019 Ryukyu Shimpo
On May 7 it became clear that the Ministry of Defense (MOD) is considering using both domestic work ships and work ships from abroad to conduct ground improvement work on the soft ground at the site in Henoko, Nago City, as part of construction of the Futenma Replacement...
May 9, 2019 Ryukyu Shimpo
On May 8 the major South Korean airline company Korean Air Lines announced that it will operate charter flights between Incheon and Shimojishima from the Miyako Shimojishima Airport Terminal in Irabu, Miyakojima City. This will be the first international charter route...
May 6, 2019 Ryukyu Shimpo
The East Asia Community Institute Okinawa (Ryukyu) held a public symposium titled, “Calling into question democracy in Japan – is Japan really an independent, democratic nation?” at the Ryukyu Shimpo Hall in Izumizaki, Naha May 5 (with support from Ryukyu Shimpo...
May 6, 2019 Ryukyu Shimpo
(Zamami) On April 28, a “kajimaya” celebration to celebrate 97 years of life and a “michi-june” parade were held in Zamami.
Ume Miyahira, age 96, of Zamami was the protagonist of the kajimaya celebration. She was born on March 14, 1923.
Miyahira...
May 4, 2019 Ryukyu Shimpo
By Takaya Kinra
Isa, Ginowan City—Ansaburo Takushi, 76, emigrated to Brazil after the U.S. military seized his land, and later returned to Okinawa.
Takushi recently published an autobiography, titled “Ishihama Land Seizure and the Isahama Immigrants...
May 3, 2019 Ryukyu Shimpo
While Akino Miyagi was researching insects in Takae, Higashi Village in April this year, he found 71 unused U.S. blank cartridges on April 6 in the vicinity of what was the LZ-FBJ helipad on returned Northern Training Area (NTA) land in Kunigami Village.
Miyagi...
May 2, 2019 Ryukyu Shimpo
Undistilled Awamori from the defunct Chiyoizumi Distillery in Miyako has once again entered the market, exciting those in the Awamori world.
As part of the “Liquor Pride Project” by Koji Higa, owner of Awamori Souko, an Awamori specialty bar in the Kume...
May 3, 2019 Ryukyu Shimpo
On May 2 the U.S. military conducted parachute drop training over the ocean at Tsukenjima Training Area in Uruma City.
In the exercise, nine people in total dropped out of an MC-130 special mission aircraft.
This is the second such training conducted...
April 30, 2019 Ryukyu Shimpo
On April 29 a rally met at the Bunkyo Civic Center in Tokyo to protest the presence of the U.S. bases and military personnel in Okinawa.
The rally was held in observation of the third anniversary of the rape and murder committed by a former U.S. Marine....
May 1, 2019 Ryukyu Shimpo
On April 30, the Okinawa Prefectural Museum & Art Museum started their “New Collection Exhibition.”
The exhibition displays about 250 items that were donated or bought in the last year.
The items include human bones of the Minatogawa people,...
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