January 5, 2016 Ryukyu Shimpo Okinawa’s child poverty rate hit 37.5 percent in 2012, the highest in Japan. On January 4, Kensaku Tomuro, Associate Professor of Yamagata University, announced the ...

December 5, 2016 Ryukyu Shimpo By Ayako Sakaguchi (Iejima) “Henoko, Takae, and Iejima—the three are all one. Anger and frustration continue every day. Even after the passage of 71 years, we are still ...

  October 26, 2017 Ryukyu Shimpo   Washington Special Correspondent Yukiyo Zaha reporting   On June 19, 1959, a Nike Hercules surface-to-air missile equipped with a nuclear warhead at ...

April 1, 2022 Ryukyu Shimpo By Kotaro Nagamine   Nago – On March 30, “Omoro Soshi, Part 1”, the first volume in the 35-volume Compendium of Ryukyu Literature (Ryukyu Bungaku Taikei), was released ...

May 17, 2019 Ryukyu Shimpo By Ryota Shimabukuro In April Professor Emeritus Akio Koizumi and Associate Professor Koji Harada, medical faculty members of Kyoto University, conducted a study concerning ...

February 22, 2020 Ryukyu Shimpo Okinawa City, Okinawa—ISSA, a member of the popular J-pop group DA PUMP, participated in Koza Night, a bar-hopping event organized by the city. ISSA was appointed night ...

December 2, 2021 Ryukyu Shimpo By Shinji Sano   Miyakojima – The Miyakojima Fishery Cooperative disclosed December 1 that around 1.4 million kuruma shrimp being raised in an aquaculture farm in ...

  November 29, 2018 Ryukyu Shimpo Okinawa Governor Denny Tamaki disclosed November 28 that during intense budget negotiations with the Japanese government, officials said the construction costs ...

December 23, 2016 Ryukyu Shimpo For whose sake is the land being returned? The return can only be declared a deceptive farce devised by the U.S. military and the Abe administration. At the ceremony ...

March 18, 2020 Ryukyu Shimpo Kumejima – Enormous sunflower blossoms invite huge smiles. A field in Janadou, Kumejima is blanketed with yellow sunflowers. Tourists stop to enjoy the contrast between ...

Around 8:00 a.m. a large-scale deck barge for storing soil for use in land reclamation work entered Oura Bay in Henoko, Nago City where Futenma Replacement Facility construction is moving forward. The ...

Prime Minister Fumio Kishida announced on May 26 that Naha Airport’s international travel routes, which have been suspended in full since March of 2020, would reopen sometime in mid-June. As part of ...