September 6, 2018 Ryukyu Shimpo
The “Henoko Okinawa Referendum Committee,” (Jinshiro Motoyama, representative), which is demanding a referendum be held in Okinawa to decide whether or not to allow land reclamation at Henoko in Nago City as part of the relocation of MCAS Futenma, submitted their ordinance application...
September 3, 2018 Ryukyu Shimpo
September 2 was the final day of the 63rd Okinawa Zento Eisa Festival, which was held at Koza Athletic Park in Okinawa City.
Fourteen groups performed Eisa at the festival.
According to organizers, over...
August 28, 2018 Ryukyu Shimpo
On August 27, Okinawa Prefecture announced that the ninth Okinawa Peace Award will be awarded to Japan International Volunteer Center (JVC), an international NGO based in Tokyo and headed by Takaki Imai.
The Okinawa Peace Award is presented...
August 28, 2018 Ryukyu Shimpo
Yuri Shimizu reports from Jeju
On August 27 the governors of Okinawa, Jeju Special Self-Governing Province in South Korea, and Hawaii met together on Jeju Island for the first Global Green Island Summit (GGIS) forum...
August 30, 2018 Ryukyu Shimpo
The 13th Okinawa gubernatorial election, which will be officially announced September...
September 3, 2018 Ryukyu Shimpo
By Fumiaki Jahana
Honolulu – A large number of people flocked to the Hawaii Convention Center in Honolulu September 1 for the start of the 36th Annual Okinawan Festival (hosted by the Hawaii United Okinawa Association), where they enjoyed...
August 6, 2018 Ryukyu Shimpo
The 24th Ten Thousand Person Eisa Dance Parade was held at the Kokusai Street in Naha City in the afternoon on August 5.
With this year’s theme, “traditional versus creative,” 4,000 performers from 62 groups including youth...
August 31, 2018 Ryukyu Shimpo
Regarding the relocation of the U.S. Marine Corps Futenma Air Station in Ginowan City to Henoko, Nago City, on the afternoon of August 31 the Okinawa prefectural government revoked the land reclamation approval given by Governor Takeshi Onaga’s...
August 28, 2018 Ryukyu Shimpo
By Taichi Hirayasu
“Martial Arts Tourism,” the new tourism initiative in Okinawa that hopes to attract Karate-ka from all over the world for things such as training, has been garnering a lot of attention.
There are...
August 27, 2018 Ryukyu Shimpo
Special Correspondent Yukiyo Zaha reports from Minnesota
On August 25, the peace organization Veterans for Peace (VFP), comprised of former military personnel and supporters, held a plenary session of its 33rd annual convention...
August 22, 2018 Ryukyu Shimpo
“The young woman in the picture is me.” Some American university students were searching for a woman in a photograph published on the front page of the local news in Ryukyu Shimpo on August 15, which was from U.S. military-occupied Okinawa...
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