August 19, 2019 Ryukyu Shimpo
The final rounds of the National High School Tanka Competition were held in Morioka city, Iwate prefecture—hometown of the poet, Takuboku Ishikawa. Tanka is a Japanese thirty-one-syllable poem, written in a single unbroken line. The Yukari Kojima Special Jury Prize, reserved for the best submission in the competition, was awarded to Reina Kuniyoshi, 17, a sophomore student at Syowa Pharmaceutical University High School. The school also placed second place...
August 20, 2019 Ryukyu Shimpo
Yukito Toyama
Nagoya – Okinawa Governor Denny Tamaki brought his “Talk Caravan,” which is travelling Japan to share Okinawa’s position on new base construction in the Henoko neighborhood in Nago City and other national security issues, to a crowd...
August 18, 2019 Ryukyu Shimpo
In an effort to stop the poaching of plants and animals such as the Yanbaru long-armed scarab beetle, a Japanese protected species that lives only in Yanbaru, in the northern part of Okinawa’s main island, the Okinawa Environmental Protection Agency will close...
August 14, 2019 Ryukyu Shimpo
In regard to a 2017 incident in which a U.S. military helicopter made an emergency landing and burst into flames in Takae, Higashi Village, the U.S. military removed and hauled a portion of soil from the incident site to Camp Kinser in Urasoe City, and on August...
August 15, 2019 Ryukyu Shimpo
On August 14, which was nakanuhii for Okinawa’s old Bon, a traditional event called “mushaama” was held.
“Mushaama” consists of holding memorial services for ancestors at Taketomi Town’s Hateruma Island, along with praying for a good harvest...
August 10, 2019 Ryukyu Shimpo
(Chubu) The Okinawa Defense Bureau (ODB) began their 2018 inspection of a survey that tracks the flightpaths of U.S. military aircraft in the area around MCAS Futenma on August 9, run out of the ODB offices in Kadena.
After the U.S. military helicopter crash...
August 12, 2019 Ryukyu Shimpo
(Ginowan) August 13 marks 15 years since the day a U.S. military helicopter crashed over Okinawa International University, and on August 11, in advance of the date, Shimagurumi Kaigi Ginowan and the Futenma Noise Lawsuit Group held a protest outside Ginowan City...
August 7, 2019 Ryukyu Shimpo
In the afternoon on August 7, Okinawa Governor Denny Tamaki held a press conference at the Prefectural Office concerning the new lawsuit that the Okinawa Prefectural Government (OPG) is bringing against the Japanese government over construction of the Futenma Replacement...
August 7, 2019 Ryukyu Shimpo
Shinugu is the traditional Okinawan harvest ritual, but the shinugu ritual of Ada, Kunigami-son, is designated an “Important Intangible Cultural Property” by the Japanese government. On Aug 6, several of Ada’s local men played the part of the “harvest gods”...
August 8, 2019 Ryukyu Shimpo
Hiroyuki Takatsuji
“Isn’t this Pikachu?” A mysterious creature was found at a fishing port on the northern part of the main island of Okinawa causing controversy over the Internet, where a video of the creature was posted. The creature has become a...
August 7, 2019 Ryukyu Shimpo
Even though it will be thought of as treating human rights carelessly, there is nothing to be done about it.
Already, courts all over Japan have thrown out the records of a majority of important post-war civil suits that debated constitutionality.
Of...
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