On April 17, at graves within U.S. Marine Corp Air Station Futenma, Ginowan, residents held the Shimi Festival to celebrate their ancestral spirits. After getting permission from the authorities, ...

Okinawa Governor Takeshi Onaga will make speech at the UN Human Rights Council (HRC) in Geneva, Switzerland on September 21 and 22. It will be the first time a prefectural governor from Japan has ...

Japanese Should Stop Calling DRPK “Kita-Chosen” Satoko Oka Norimatsu, Editor, The Asia-Pacific Journal: Japan Focus This summer, I went to the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea, or in Japanese, ...

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 ...

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 ...

December 7, 2021 Ryukyu Shimpo By Yosuke Anri   Prime minister Fumio Kishida gave a general policy speech on December 6, his first since the formation of his second cabinet. In the speech he ...

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 ...

December 2, 2021 Ryukyu Shimpo By Manato Akira   December 2 marked 25 years since the Japan-U.S. Special Action Committee on Okinawa (SACO) issued its 1996 final report, which established plans ...

July 21, 2021 Ryukyu Shimpo   By Takeshi Kishimoto     Shinjin Kise, the 78-year-old master of the Nomura School and Tansui School of Classical Okinawan Music Preservation Society, ...

February 24, 2021 Ryukyu Shimpo   On February 24, the Supreme Court ruled on the question of whether Naha City’s free provision of land in Matsuyama Park for the Kume Shiseibyo (Koshibyo), which ...

January 22, 2021 Ryukyu Shimpo   On January 18, the Okinawa Environmental Preservation Division announced the results of the summer water quality survey that was conducted last September in the ...

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 ...