February 8, 2019 Ryukyu Shimpo
The Okinawa Labor Bureau (Takafumi Adachi, bureau chief) announced February 7 that the number of foreign laborers in Okinawa as of the end of October, 2018 increased by 828 people year-over-year (an 11.3% increase) to a total of 8,138 people. The number of businesses employing workers from foreign countries also increase by 146 companies (a 10.1% increase) to a total of 1,591. This is the highest number of total foreign workers and business that employ foreign...
January 29, 2019 Ryukyu Shimpo
In a policy speech at the National Diet on January 28, Prime Minister Shinzo Abe once again stated his intention to move forward with the relocation of Futenma Air Station to Henoko, Nago City. He said, “After more than twenty years of discussions with Okinawa’s...
February 3, 2019 Ryukyu Shimpo
The U.S. state of Hawaii, which is in competition with Okinawa over incoming tourist numbers, had a preliminary estimate of 9,954,548 tourists in the 2018 calendar year, roughly 112,100 more than Okinawa, which had 984,2400 tourists visiting during the same period.
Okinawa...
February 3, 2019 Ryukyu Shimpo
By Kazuya Arakaki
[Nakagusuku] The Nakagusuku Board of Education (BoE) disclosed on February 2 that during their survey of the newly discovered castle wall at Nakagusuku Castle Ruins, the discovered symbols such as letters that resemble an “F” and an...
February 1, 2019 Ryukyu Shimpo
On January 31, it came to light that the Japanese government is considering using approximately 60,000 sand pillars at a depth 70 meters under the water of Oura Bay as the soil improvement method on a 57-hectare area of soft seafloor in the land reclamation area...
February 2, 2019 Ryukyu Shimpo
As part of its 30th anniversary project, the Himeyuri Peace Museum released a promotional video on its website and on YouTube.
The museum’s annual visitation had declined by nearly one-half, from its peak of one million visitors in 1999, to 580,000...
February 1, 2019 Ryukyu Shimpo
By Masaaki Umeda and Ami Chibana
A specific type of scam called “international romance fraud” has been on the rise in and outside of Okinawa. This scam involves perpetrators pretending to be foreign servicemen on social networking services (SNS) and...
February 2, 2019 Ryukyu Shimpo
A group of U.S. and Japanese environmentalists, which is the plaintiff group in the dugong lawsuit against the U.S. Department of Defense (DoD) and demands a halt to construction in Henoko, Nago City, held a press conference on February 1 at the...
January 30, 2019 Ryukyu Shimpo
On January 29, 16 Nago residents living in the vicinity of the landfill area resorted to legal action at the Naha district court to seek cancellation of the state’s decision to suspend revocation of the landfill permit.
Japan’s Minister...
January 30, 2018 Ryukyu Shimpo
Nago – Andres Higa ,43, a second generation Okinawan-Argentinian who has established the “World Uchinanchu Day” and “ International Day of Nikkei,” married Cynthia...
January 29, 2019 Ryukyu Shimpo
On January 28, fifteen U.S. military amphibious vehicles entered U.S. military Camp Hansen by crossing over prefectural highway 329 from the Katabaru seashore in Matsuda, Ginoza, Okinawa. When the vehicles crossed, U.S. military personnel...
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