May 13, 2012 Hideki Matsudo of Ryukyu Shimpo reports from Washington D.C.
On May 11, in Washington D.C., former U.S. Government senior official Morton Halperin, who in the past was responsible for negotiating with the Japanese Government on matters relating to the reversion of Okinawa to...
May 16, 2012 Ryukyu Shimpo
On May 15, the day that Okinawa marked the 40th anniversary of its reversion to Japanese sovereignty, the central government and the Okinawa Prefectural Government co-hosted a ceremony at the Okinawa Convention Center in Ginowan. Prime Minister Yoshihiko Noda expressed...
May 9, 2012 Ryukyu Shimpo
On May 5 and 6, ahead of May 15, the 40th anniversary of Okinawa’s reversion to Japanese sovereignty, the Ryukyu Shimpo and Mainichi newspapers jointly conducted a telephone opinion poll to ascertain how people in Okinawa and the main islands of Japan view the reversion...
April 17, 2012 Ryukyu Shimpo
On April 15, a discussion group consisting of former politicians and teachers involved in the reversion movement carried out their annual clean-up and repainting of the movement monument at Cape Hedo. Afterwards a meeting was held to discuss the fact that 40 years...
April 9, 2012 Tomoya Kohatsu of the Ryukyu Shimpo
On April 8, the Ryukyu America Historical Research Society acquired 151 photographs of scenes in Okinawa during the period from directly after World War II to the 1960s. The collection includes photographs of people and scenery all over Okinawa...
March 19, 2012 Ryukyu Shimpo
To commemorate the 40th anniversary of Okinawa’s reversion to Japanese sovereignty, Okinawa decided upon Tinsagunu hana as the prefecture’s favorite song. Singer Erika Sunakawa and Daiichi Hirata, the director general of Department of Culture, Tourism,...
February 29, 2012 Ryukyu Shimpo
From February 27 to April 30, an Okinawa satellite store in Hong Kong called Okinawa Route 58 is holding an Okinawan food fair in the restaurant of the Hong Kong Convention and Exhibition Center (HKCEC) to serve Okinawan cuisine made with Okinawan ingredients....
February 27, 2012 Ryukyu Shimpo
In the morning of February 27, during his visit to Okinawa, Prime Minister Yoshihiko Noda met Okinawa Governor Hirokazu Nakaima at the Okinawa Prefectural Office.
With regard to the return and relocation of the U.S. Marine Corps Air Station Futenma, Nakaima...
December 13, 2011 Ryukyu Shimpo
On December 12, Governor Hirokazu Nakaima announced that next April the Okinawa Prefectural Office (OPG) will establish a division to conduct research and gather information about Japan-U.S. security issues.
This is aimed at lending substance to his policy...
December 4, 2011 Ryukyu Shimpo
Haiteng Chen, Chief Executive Officer of Baidu Japan Inc. visited Okinawa from December 1 to 3, for meetings with leaders of the prefectural government and representatives of local companies. Baidu Inc. (President Alan Zhang) is a Chinese web-services company...
September 26, 2011 Ryukyu Shimpo
A book entitled “The Record of Crimes Against the Okinawan People by U.S. Military Occupation Forces – Volume 2” was published recently by 72 year-old Morio Tengan, a resident of Uruma City and former director of the Koza Labor Management Office of...
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