January 26, 2016 Ryukyu Shimpo
By Shohei Tsukazaki
The Nago Board of Education (BoE) and the Okinawa BoE decided January 25 to conduct a cultural asset survey starting in February on the land portion of the “Nagasaki Kaneku Scattered Artifact Zone” located at the tip of the Henoko Peninsula (and surrounding water) inside the U.S. Marine’s Camp Schwab, where new base construction continues.
The scattered artifact zone is adjacent to where the...
January 20, 2018 Ryukyu Shimpo
On January 16, a get-together was held between the Watoto Children’s Choir and children from Uruma City at the Akamichi Community Center.
The Watoto Children’s Choir is a choir group from Uganda, Africa that cares for orphaned children and women that...
January 26, 2018 Ryukyu Shimpo
Between January 23 and 25, the four young men who vandalized Chibichiri-gama vistied the site with their probation officers as part of their probation program.
They assembled Buddha statues by attaching face and...
January 19, 2018 Ryukyu Shimpo
In response to consecutive emergency landings of U.S. Marine Corps helicopters, the Okinawa Prefectural Assembly held an extraordinary plenary session on the morning of January 19 and unanimously passed a protest resolution and opinion...
January 21, 2018 Ryukyu Shimpo
By Hiroko Sato, Style Editor
A shining cloud racing through the sky like a phoenix.
The Japanese Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) successfully launched their small-engine Epsilon-3 rocket January 18.
A fantasy-like video of the launch...
January 18, 2018 Ryukyu Shimpo
The Japanese Ministry of Defense announced on the afternoon of January 18 that three U.S. military helicopters flew over Futenma Daini Elementary School in Ginowan City earlier that day.
It was the same elementary school where,...
January 17, 2018 Ryukyu Shimpo
Visitors are thronging to Genka, Nago in Okinawa Prefecture to see the charming white plum blossoms in full bloom along the road in the Ohshittai wetlands area.
The plum trees were planted by local residents. Spectators...
January 22, 2018 Ryukyu Shimpo
By Ayako Sakaguchi
It came to Ryukyu Shimpo’s attention on January 21 that toxic substances such as the carcinogen benzene are present on the site where a CH-53E U.S. military helicopter went up in flames and came to the ground...
January 19, 2018 Ryukyu Shimpo
On January 18 the residents’ liaison association to oppose militarization of Ishigaki held a citizens’ rally at Ishigaki Citizen Hall to ask that the Japan Ground Self-Defense Force (GSDF) not be deployed to Ishigaki Island.
According to the organizers...
January 19, 2018 Ryukyu Shimpo
On January 18, the Futenma Daini Elementary School conducted an evacuation drill assuming a situation in which a U.S. military aircraft approaches the airspace over the school.
With evaluators stationed by the Okinawa Defense...
January 13, 2018 Ryukyu Shimpo
Shanghai Hai Hua Shipping Company (HASCO), a Chinese maritime transport company, has begun operating international container ships on a route between Naha Port and Ho Chi Minh Port in Vietnam through Keelung Port in Taiwan. On January 18 the first ship to take...
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