April 27, 2019 Ryukyu Shimpo
Okinawa Governor Denny Tamaki announced at a regular press conference April 26 that in financial year 2018 (which in Japan ran from April 2018 through March 2019), tourist visitors to the region increased 4.4% (419,000 people) from the previous year to a total of 9,999,000 people.
The figure just barely missed the goal of 10 million visitors, however it did break the record for most visitors in a year, breaking the record set the previous year, as it...
April 26, 2019 Ryukyu Shimpo
On the morning of April 26, the Okinawa Prefectural Assembly (chaired by Yonekichi Shinzato) opened an extraordinary session and unanimously adopted a resolution and written statement protesting the murder of a Japanese woman in Chatan Town by a U.S. Navy sailor...
April 24, 2019 Ryukyu Shimpo
Repairs such as reconstruction of buildings are continuing to take place at the U.S. military Henoko ammunition storage facilities in Nago City, Okinawa Prefecture.
The Ryukyu Shimpo took photographs of the site with a drone on April 23 capturing at least...
April 24, 2019 Ryukyu Shimpo
By Chie Tome
On April 23 it came to light that a water quality study conducted last year by the Okinawa Prefectural Enterprise Bureau in the vicinity of Kadena Air Base detected high concentrations of perfluorooctane sulfonate (PFOS) and perfluorooctanoic...
April 28, 2019 Ryukyu Shimpo
Okinawa Governor Denny Tamaki gave a speech at Waseda University in Tokyo April 25, in which he described the situation in Okinawa as, “a situation that continues to be what can only be thought of as anti-democratic.
I want everyone to see the land reclamation...
April 25, 2019 Ryukyu Shimpo online edition
Tomohiro Yara (independent), who was newly elected to the Lower House Okinawa No. 3 district seat in the by-election on April 21, attended his first Diet session on the morning of April 25.
He said, “Problems in Okinawa are but a symptom...
April 23, 2019 Ryukyu Shimpo
On April 22 Okinawa Governor Denny Tamaki submitted materials to the Committee for Settling National-Local Disputes, an entity belonging to the Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communications, requesting a third-party review of Land Minister’s decision to...
April 20, 2019 Ryukyu Shimpo
By Naoki Isa, New York
The Ryukyu Koten Afuso Ryu Ongaku Kenkyuu Choichi Kai USA (The Afuso School Style of Classical Ryukyu Music Association) and its president, Grant Sadami Murata, presented “TOBE! Uta Sanshin in NY” at the Carnegie Hall in New York...
April 23, 2019 Ryukyu Shimpo
By Yoshinori Takada
There have been countless incidents of problems relating to relationships with and marriages to U.S. military personnel and base workers.
In 2018, 87 people consulted with Women’s Pride, an NPO that provides consultation relating...
April 20, 2019 Ryukyu Shimpo
A part of the ongoing dispute over new U.S. military base construction in the Henoko neighborhood of Nago, Okinawa, a group of 16 anti-base residents who live in the area where land reclamation work is ongoing just off the coast of Henoko have filed a lawsuit against...
April 21, 2019 Ryukyu Shimpo
Tomohiro Yara, 56, is a freelance journalist and a new independent candidate in the Lower House by-election in the Okinawa No. 3 district backed by the “All Okinawa” camp.
He won in the by-election held on April 21 after Denny Tamaki resigned...
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