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Representatives from five organizations including the Okinawa Prefectural government and the Okinawa Labor Bureau (OLB) signed a “comprehensive cooperation agreement” the morning of March 18, to ...

The children were passing out milk for school lunch, when suddenly they were bombarded by thunderous noise and balls of fire. It has been 60 years since a U.S. military jet crashed into Miyamori ...

December 2 marked 25 years since the Japan-U.S. Special Action Committee on Okinawa (SACO) issued its 1996 final report, which established plans such as the return of approximately 5,000 hectares of U ...

On March 28, the Ministry of Defense opened a new military base and radar station for Japan’s Ground Self-Defense Force on Yonaguni Island. About 160 personnel, who will be stationed at the base, ...

Kitanakagusuku—the non-profit organization Ryukyu America Historical Research Society (chaired by Shizuo Alex Kishaba) released 207 color photographs taken between 1952 and 1954 in a press release ...

Due to an inspection of the tap water conducted in Kin Town in February, it came to light on March 3 that a level of 59 nanograms per liter (ng/L) of harmful organic fluorine compounds known as PFAS, ...

In response to an incident in which water contaminated with polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS) that had been stored on Futenma Air Station was treated and released into the sewers by the U.S. Marine ...

October 17 is Okinawa Soba Day. At the Gabusoka Shokudo Honten in Gabusoka, Nago, which opened 55 years ago, the person standing in the kitchen is none other than its founder Genji Kinjo, 92. “Nothing ...

Based on the Act on the Conservation of Endangered Species, the Ministry of the Environment has granted Urgent Endangered Species Designation, for a period of three years starting on July 1, to a ...

The Bashofu Orimono Kobou in Ogimi Village, Okinawa, an artisan textile studio specialized in the traditional Okinawan bashofu fabric, was awarded the 14th Kurashiki Mingeikan Award. The Kurashiki ...

Tokyo—On the evening of February 3, citizens opposed to the relocation of U.S. Air Station Futenma to Henoko, Nago City, protested in front of the Japanese Prime Minister’s official residence in Tokyo ...