与那国島海底遺跡
Sunken city echoes Atlantis a Japanese researcher claims there are ruins of an ancient civilization under the Pacific Ocean.
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Discovery of huge ancient cities in the waters off of Okinawa
Posted by okinawatime on 2009/05/07
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Battle of Okinawa and Japan’s Textbook Inspection Which Denies Historical Truth…
Posted by okinawatime on 2009/03/20
Japan’s Textbook Inspection Which Denies Historical Truth…
In March 2007, the national education, culture, sports, science and technology ministry advised textbook publishers to reword descriptions that the embattled Imperial Japanese Army forced civilians to kill themselves. They prefer descriptions that just say that civilians received hand grenades from the military.
Posted in Okinawa News & Politics, Okinawa WW 2 | Tagged: 1945, Battle of Okinawa, Battlefield, 第２次世界大戦, 集団自決, 読谷村戦時記録, Iceberg, Japan, military history, Okinawa, Okinawa History, Okinawa WW 2, Operation Iceberg, Pacific War, U.S., ww2, Yomitan village war record, 太平洋戦, 日本軍, 沖縄, 沖縄戦 | 1 Comment »
Operation Iceberg began on March 1945
Posted by okinawatime on 2009/03/18
Battle of Okinawa 1945. The amphibious assault on Okinawa with codename Operation Iceberg began on 03/26/1945.
UNITED STATES ARMY IN WORLD WAR II The War in the Pacific
OKINAWA: THE LAST BATTLE
by: Roy E. Appleman, James M. Burns, Russell A. Gugeler, and John Stevens
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Okinawa Japan; Troop Movement Agreement
Posted by okinawatime on 2009/02/26
2/17/2009. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton signed a troop movement agreement with Japan.
Posted in Okinawa History, Okinawa News & Politics, Okinawa Time (おきなわタイム), Okinawa time 沖縄タイム | Tagged: 8000 Marines, American, Asia, おきなわ, Base, CAMP FOSTER, Futenma, Ginowan, Guam, Hillary Clinton, II, Japan, obama, Okinawa, Okinawa History, Okinawa News, Okinawa Politics, Okinawa to Guam, Ryukyu, Station, taro aso, U.S., US military, US Secretary of State, War, World, wwii, 沖縄, 沖縄 タイム, 沖縄タイム | Leave a Comment »
Message from Ginowan (Futenma Air Station Movie Files) Okinawa
Posted by okinawatime on 2009/02/26
Sixty years after World War II, Us military base problems in Okinawa are still unresolved. 大二次世界大戦、終戦から六十年後の今でも沖縄県内の米軍基地の 問題は解決されていません。 Our earnest desire is the closure of Futenma Air Station and it’s relocation outside Japan.
私達の本当の願いはアメリカ海兵隊普天間航空基地の閉鎖と沖縄県からの移転です。
This video is from the Mayer of Ginowan city, Okinawa Japan. The problems are still there and need to spread the words!
Posted in Okinawa History, Okinawa News & Politics, Okinawa Time (おきなわタイム), Okinawa time 沖縄タイム | Tagged: おきなわ, アメリカ, アメリカ海兵隊, ジェット, ヘリコプター, Base, 琉球, 米軍基地, 運動, 騒音, Futenma, Ginowan, Japan, Okinawa, Okinawa Japan, okinawatime, Ryukyu, Station, U.S., 問題, 基地, 大二次世界大戦, 宜野湾市, 日本, 普天間, 普天間航空基地, 沖縄, 沖縄 タイム, 沖縄タイム | 1 Comment »
U.S. Military in Okinawa
Posted by okinawatime on 2009/02/25
U.S. Military bases(37 military facilities -aerial photographs links here) account for roughly 10.4% of the total land area(23,687.4 hectares) of Okinawa, and 18.8% of the main island of Okinawa where the population and industries are concentrated.
Posted in Okinawa, Okinawa (沖縄県), Okinawa History, Okinawa News & Politics, Okinawa WW 2 | Tagged: American President, おきなわ, おきなわタイム （okinawatime, Bill Clinton, Haebaru Cultural Center, Himeyuri Peace Museum, Okinawa, Okinawa Battlefields, Okinawa City Folk Museum, Okinawa History, Okinawa News, Okinawa Politics, okinawa time, Okinawa WW 2, okinawatime, Peace Museum, Sakima Museum of Art, Summit, Treasured Life Peace Museum, Underground Headquarters of the Japanese Imperial Navy, Uruma City Museum of History and Ethnology, US military, Yaeyama Peace Memorial Museum, 沖縄, 沖縄 タイム, 沖縄タイム | Leave a Comment »
Okinawa’s Turbulent 400 Years
Posted by okinawatime on 2009/02/21
Tuesday, January 13, 2009
Okinawa’s Turbulent 400 Years
Gavan McCormack
[Japanese text available here]
This three part New Year essay was commissioned by the Okinawan daily Ryukyu shimpo and published on January 6, 7, and 8, 2009, under the title “Satsuma shinko 400 nen – “Gekijo” kokka to shite no Okinawa,” (400 Years since the Satsuma Invasion: Okinawa as ‘Theatre’ state”).
Posted in Okinawa, Okinawa History, Okinawa News & Politics | Tagged: Asia, おきなわ, 琉球王国時代, Gavan McCormack, Okinawa, Okinawa Culture, Okinawa History, Okinawa News, Okinawa Politics, Okinawa's Turbulent 400 Years, 沖縄, 沖縄 タイム, 沖縄タイム, 沖縄文化 | 2 Comments »
Rev. Shigeaki Kinjo, Okinawa WWII survivor
Posted by okinawatime on 2009/01/31
Saturday, March 29, 2008
Plaintiffs disappointed as Oe prevails in suit
The Yomiuri Shimbun
OSAKA-Nobel Prize-winning writer Kenzaburo Oe quietly accepted the Osaka District Court’s ruling Friday rejecting a lawsuit filed against him and a publisher over descriptions of the Imperial Japanese Army’s ordering of civilian mass suicide during the Battle of Okinawa.
Posted in Okinawa History, Okinawa WW 2, 沖縄人 | Tagged: おきなわ, おきなわタイム （okinawatime, オキナワ, Battle of Okinawa, Bloodiest Battles, Okinawa, Okinawa History, Okinawa WW 2, Okinawa WW2, Shigeaki Kinjo, World War II, World War Two, ww2, wwii, WWII survivor, 沖縄, 沖縄 タイム, 沖縄の島, 沖縄タイム, 沖縄戦争 | Leave a Comment »
Rev. Shigeaki Kinjo, Okinawa WWII survivor
Posted by okinawatime on 2009/01/31
Saturday, March 29, 2008
Plaintiffs disappointed as Oe prevails in suit
The Yomiuri Shimbun
OSAKA-Nobel Prize-winning writer Kenzaburo Oe quietly accepted the Osaka District Court’s ruling Friday rejecting a lawsuit filed against him and a publisher over descriptions of the Imperial Japanese Army’s ordering of civilian mass suicide during the Battle of Okinawa.
Posted in Okinawa History, Okinawa WW 2, 沖縄人 | Tagged: おきなわ, おきなわタイム （okinawatime, オキナワ, Battle of Okinawa, Bloodiest Battles, Okinawa, Okinawa History, Okinawa WW 2, Okinawa WW2, Shigeaki Kinjo, World War II, World War Two, ww2, wwii, WWII survivor, 沖縄, 沖縄 タイム, 沖縄の島, 沖縄タイム, 沖縄戦争 | Leave a Comment »
Nobuaki Kinjo, Okinawa WWII survivor
Posted by okinawatime on 2009/01/31
Saturday, September 29, 2007
Japanese outraged by rewriting of Okinawa history
By David McNeill in Tokyo
Published: 29 September 2007
Nobuaki Kinjo was 16 when he murdered his mother, six-year-old brother and four-year-old sister. Then he went looking for Americans to kill. “We went insane,” he told a court recently. “We were told by the soldiers of the Imperial Japanese Army that we should commit suicide rather than be captured.”
Posted in Okinawa News & Politics, Okinawa WW 2, 沖縄人 | Tagged: おきなわ, おきなわタイム （okinawatime, オキナワ, Nobuaki Kinjo, Okinawa, Okinawa History, okinawa time, okinawatime, World War II, World War Two, ww2, wwii, WWII survivor, 沖縄, 沖縄 タイム, 沖縄タイム | Leave a Comment »
Two 12-year-old boys brought a World War II explosive to class?
Posted by okinawatime on 2009/01/29
Saturday, January 31, 2009
Japanese boys bring WWII explosive to class
By David Allen and Chiyomi Sumida, Stars and Stripes
Pacific edition, Saturday, January 31, 2009
CHATAN, Okinawa — It was definitely not your average schoolroom show-and-tell.
Two 12-year-old boys brought a World War II explosive to class Jan. 21, scaring teachers and students alike. Just two weeks ago, a construction worker was seriously injured when his power shovel struck a buried shell that exploded with such force that it broke out all the windows of a nearby senior citizens’ rest home in Naha.
According to police, Read the rest of this entry »
Posted in Okinawa News & Politics, Okinawa WW 2, Okinawa time 沖縄タイム | Tagged: Battle of Okinawa, CHATAN Okinawa, Haebaru, Okinawa, Okinawa News, Okinawa Politics, Okinawa WW2, Stars and Stripes, World War II, ww2, Ww2 Bomb Explodes, 沖縄 タイム, 沖縄タイム | Leave a Comment »
World War II Bomb Explodes in Okinawa 01-14-09
Posted by okinawatime on 2009/01/19
World War II Bomb Explodes in Okinawa 01-14-09
糸満市小波蔵で水道工事中に不発弾爆発 ２人が重軽傷2009年1月14日
http://ryukyushimpo.jp/news/storyid-139848-storytopic-152.html
WWII bomb seriously injures Japanese: officials
5 days ago
TOKYO (AFP) – A Japanese worker was severely injured Wednesday by a World War II bomb in Okinawa, which witnessed the Pacific war’s fiercest battle nearly 64 years ago, officials said.
Jun Kohagura, 25, was working on an underground water pipe on the subtropical island when the bomb went off, seriously injuring him in the face…Read more Agence France-Presse
Japan construction crew sets off buried explosive
By JAY ALABASTER – 5 days ago
TOKYO (AP) – A powerful explosion shook a small Japanese town Wednesday morning when a construction crew accidentally set off what may have been an undetonated land mine from World War II… Read more Associated Press
Shell explosion seriously injures man in Okinawa
Posted : Wed, 14 Jan 2009 09:36:06 GMT
Author : DPA
Tokyo – A shell, possibly left from World War II, exploded early Wednesday on the southern Japanese island of Okinawa, inflicting serious injury to a construction worker, media reports said… Read more Deutsche Presse-Agentur
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Wonder Okinawa
Posted by okinawatime on 2009/01/17
“Wonder Okinawa“ This is a great website created by Okinawa Prefecture (Okinawa Government)
They put a lot of time and effort presenting Okinawa’s history and culture. They also have valuable sources for tourist and much more. I have listed all the contents below with links to each site. Each site is magnificently filled with information, lots of images, music, and movies that you can’t get anywhere else and they are translated in English and in Japanese.
I am very pleased of their excellent work and I have enjoyed learning more about Okinawa and I am more educated in my heritage. I just can’t wait until my next visit to Okinawa!
Posted in Okinawa, Okinawa (沖縄県), Okinawa History, Okinawa Introduction, Okinawa Travel & Events, Okinawa time 沖縄タイム, Okinawan Culture, Okinawan Festivals & Entertainments, Time in Okinawa | Tagged: Art, Asia, おきなわ, Dunce, Entertainments, Food 食品, Karate, Lion-dog, Music, Okinawa, Okinawa Culture, Okinawa History, Okinawa Island, Okinawa Japan, Okinawa Karate, Okinawa Prefecture, okinawa time, Okinawan art, Okinawan pottery, Okinawan spirits, resort, Ryukyu Kingdom, Tour of Okinawa, Travel, Wonder Okinawa, 沖縄, 沖縄 タイム | 2 Comments »
Wonder Okinawa
Posted by okinawatime on 2009/01/17
“Wonder Okinawa“ This is a great website created by Okinawa Prefecture (Okinawa Government)
They put a lot of time and effort presenting Okinawa’s history and culture. They also have valuable sources for tourist and much more. I have listed all the contents below with links to each site. Each site is magnificently filled with information, lots of images, music, and movies that you can’t get anywhere else and they are translated in English and in Japanese.
I am very pleased of their excellent work and I have enjoyed learning more about Okinawa and I am more educated in my heritage. I just can’t wait until my next visit to Okinawa!
Posted in Okinawa, Okinawa (沖縄県), Okinawa History, Okinawa Introduction, Okinawa Travel & Events, Okinawa time 沖縄タイム, Okinawan Culture, Okinawan Festivals & Entertainments, Time in Okinawa | Tagged: Art, Asia, おきなわ, Dunce, Entertainments, Food 食品, Karate, Lion-dog, Music, Okinawa, Okinawa Culture, Okinawa History, Okinawa Island, Okinawa Japan, Okinawa Karate, Okinawa Prefecture, okinawa time, Okinawan art, Okinawan pottery, Okinawan spirits, resort, Ryukyu Kingdom, Tour of Okinawa, Travel, Wonder Okinawa, 沖縄, 沖縄 タイム | 1 Comment »
