January 4, 2018 Ryukyu Shimpo
After drawing a lot of attention for a comedy routine on “The Manzai 2017,” a nationally televised comedy program on Fuji Television, that featured jokes and a satirization of base construction in Okinawa in places such as Henoko in Nago City and in Takae in Higashimura,...
January 9, 2018 Ryukyu Shimpo
On the morning of January 9 Governor Takeshi Onaga gave his response to the recent consecutive emergency landings of U.S. Marine Corps helicopters on Ikeijima and in Yomitan Village.
He said, “I am truly at a loss for words....
At 10:00 a.m. on January 11,
Uruma City Council President Seizen Ohya held an emergency meeting.
In this meeting, the city council unanimously came to a decision and created a memorandum regarding the forced landing of an U.S. military aircraft that took place...
January 9, 2018 Ryukyu Shimpo
On...
January 5, 2018 Ryukyu Shimpo
By Chikako Maemori
A skilled performer set the stage for a variety of performances; the 40-year-old performer from Ishigaki City, Kazuya Shimoji, performs three roles on his own at the Kinoshita Circus held at Toyosaki Town special venue in Tomigusuku City....
January 3, 2018 Ryukyu Shimpo
By Washington Special Correspondent Yukiyo Zaha and Ryota Shimabukuro
It recently came to light through declassified official U.S. documents that in May 1972, with the reversion of Okinawa to Japanese sovereignty...
anuary 8, 2018 Ryukyu Shimpo online edition
On January 8 around 4:45 p.m. an AH-1 attack helicopter from MCAS Futenma made an emergency landing on the grounds of the Hijagawa administrative group waste disposal facility in Gima, Yomitan Village. People working in the fields nearby...
January 7, 2018 Ryukyu Shimpo
(Uruma, Ikei Island) A UH-1 U.S. military helicopter from MCAS Futenma made an...
January 4, 2018 Ryukyu Shimpo Digital Edition
Okinawa Governor Takeshi Onaga made his New Year’s resolution...
January 3, 2018 Ryukyu Shimpo
An event called Shinshun no Utage or New Year’s Banquet was held at Shuri Castle in Naha on January 1.
Three scenes from the Chouhaiokishiki or Imperial Court New Year’s morning ceremony from the Ryukyu Kingdom...
December 29, 2017
By Hirokazu Otsubo, Correspondent for the Ryukyu Shimpo
(Zamami) This season’s whale watching tours started in Zamami Village on December 27.
On that day, a warden from the village’s Whale Watching Association spotted one humpback...
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