November 14, 2019 Ryukyu Shimpo
Ryukyu Bingata Preservation and Expansion Consortium (RBPC), a group working to spread and preserve traditional Ryukyu textiles is teaming with Okicom, a software developer, to install a Christmas tree at Naha Airport.
The tree will feature eight of Okinawa’s bingata varieties designated national traditional crafts. The aim is to advertise Okinawan history and culture to locals and tourists by installing the tree at Naha Airport, the island’s...
November 19, 2019 Ryukyu Shimpo
Ryota Nakamura
During U.S. rule of Okinawa in 1958, there were many Uchinanchu who went to Thursday Island in northern Australia with dreams of getting rich pearl diving.
Senshu Arakawa, 86, from Kenken, Motobu was one of them. The reality of a...
November 15, 2019 Ryukyu Shimpo Digital Edition
On November 15, the national government’s Council for Cultural Affairs issued a report to Education Minister Koichi Hagiuda indicating that the Shiraho-Saonetabaru Cave Ruins, located in Ishigaki City, is to be newly designated as a National...
November 8, 2019 Ryukyu Shimpo
Cocco, who celebrated the 20th anniversary of her debut in 2017, released her 10th studio album, StarShank, in October (3,000 yen before tax, Victor Entertainment).
Released three years after the release of her previous album, Adan Ballet, Cocco once again...
November 15, 2019 Ryukyu Shimpo
On November 14 a council for cultivating trees for use in the restoration of wooden buildings starting with Shuri Castle, the Tree-Cultivating Council for Shuri Castle (chaired by Kanko Teruya), tended to yew plum pine and fukugi trees in the national forest...
November 15, 2019 Ryukyu Shimpo
The awards ceremony for Peace in the Streets Global Film Festival 2019 was held on November 6 at the United Nations Headquarters in New York, followed by a screening of the winning films.
The film festival is organized by the Peacemaker Corps Association...
Yo Kakazu
(Nanjo) Kudakajima Island, part of Nanjo City, is known as a sacred place in Okinawa, and roughly 60 thousand people visit there each year.
Many tourists have been trespassing in off-limits sacred spots (utaki) and waters, and islanders who have worked to protect the ancient...
November 12, 2019 Ryukyu Shimpo
Image processing and virtual reality experts are teaming up to form the “OUR Shurijo – Shuri Castle Digital Reconstruction” project, which aims to create a digital reconstruction of the recently burned down Shuri Castle.
The project will collect...
November 11, 2019 Ryukyu Shimpo
A student club of the Concord University College Fujian Normal University, the “Sanmo Eisa Club” (eisa is a traditional Okinawan dance) performed at the Mutsumi-bashi intersection on Kokusai Street in Naha City on November 10, in collaboration with various...
November 7, 2019 Ryukyu Shimpo
Mariko Nakamura
Nov. 7—It’s been one week since Shuri Castle’s seiden, or the main hall, was destroyed in a fire. A full investigation of the prefecture’s management will come, meanwhile, mapping out a path to reviving the castle is proving...
November 6, 2019 Ryukyu Shimpo
On November 5 the Prefectural Ryukyu Red Tile Plaster Craftsmanship Cooperative, which is made up of craftsmen of Okinawan traditional red roof tile, submitted a written appeal to Okinawa Governor Denny Tamaki requesting that burned red tiles from Shuri Castle...
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