April 1, 2019 Ryukyu Shimpo
Okinawans in the U.S. and Europe, and Okinawan Americans have newly joined forces as the Global Uchinānchu Alliance. The GUA lobbies members of the U.S. Congress to honor the will of the Okinawan people as evidenced in the prefectural referendum, in regards to the construction of a new military base in Henoko, Nago City. The organization has been endorsed by peace activist Mairead Maguire, who was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 1976 for her role in the peaceful...
The “Second Aerial Gateway” to the Miyako region officially opens with the Miyako Shimojishima Airport Terminal
March 30, 2019 Ryukyu Shimpo
Miyako – The Miyako Shimojishima Airport Terminal officially opened at 8:00 a.m. on March 30. With the opening, the “second aerial gateway”...
April 1, 2019 Ryukyu Shimpo online edition
Just past 1:55 p.m. on April 1, an MV-22 Osprey vertical takeoff and landing aircraft from Marine Corps Air Station Futenma made an emergency landing at Osaka International (Itami) Airport in Osaka Prefecture. There was no damage to the fuselage, and...
March 28, 2019 Ryukyu Shimpo
By Ayako Sakaguchi
Before Camp Schwab was completed there was a large pine tree on Cape Henoko. Takenobu Shimabukuro, 82, who loves photography, has been capturing photographs of his hometown since he was in his 20’s.
His albums are full of old...
March 22, 2019 Ryukyu Shimpo Digital Edition
On March 22, the Japan Art Academy (director: Senji Kuroi) announced eight recipients of the 2018 Japan Art Academy Prize to honor talented artists.
One of the recipients was the Okinawan Kumiodori performer Noho Miyagi, 80, of Yonabaru, who...
March 27, 2019 Ryukyu Shimpo
On March 25 at a plenary session of the Iwate Prefectural Assembly, the ruling coalition including the Social Democratic Party and the Japanese Communist Party adopted by majority vote a written statement titled “Request that land reclamation work in Henoko...
March 25, 2019 Ryukyu Shimpo online edition
On March 25 at 2:58 p.m. the Okinawa Defense Bureau (ODB) began initial soil deposits into a land reclamation section on the Henoko side of Cape Henoko, as part of construction of the Futenma Replacement Facility (FRF) in Henoko, Nago City.
Following...
March 23, 2019 Ryukyu Shimpo
Okinawa Prefecture has filed a lawsuit against Japan March 22 at the Fukuoka High Court Naha Branch naming as defendant Minister of Land, Infrastructure, Transport, and Tourism (MLIT) Keiichi Ishii, demanding he overturn his injunction ending the efficacy of Okinawa’s...
March 26, 2019 Ryukyu Shimpo
Shinya Yamanaka, recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize in Physiology or Medicine, and director of Kyoto University’s Center for IPS Cell Research and Application, gave a talk at the Ryukyu Shimpo Hall in Naha city on March 25.
Yamanaka used simple words to...
March 21, 2019 Ryukyu Shimpo
On March 18, Japan’s Council for Cultural Affairs submitted a report to the Minister of Education, Culture, Spots, Science and Technology Masahiko Shibayama.
The report recommends that “The 41 Materials and Documents Related to the Sho Royal Family of...
March 21, 2019 Ryukyu Shimpo
The remains of 63 Okinawans taken from the island by an Imperial University anthropologist in the early Showa era, were finally returned to Okinawa March 20 from the National Taiwan University, where they were being held.
According to the Okinawa Board of...
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