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Masako Ganaha (Japanese: 我那覇 （ がなは ） 真 （ まさ ） 子 （ こ ）; born August 10, 1989) [3] is a Japanese freelance journalist and JSDF reservist.She is a representative operating committee member of the Citizens' and People's Association for Correcting the Ryukyu Shimpo and the Okinawa Times (琉球新報、沖縄タイムスを正す県民・国民の会). [3]
Dr. Makoto Suzuki, Okinawa Research Center for Longevity Science. The Okinawa Centenarian Study is a study of the elderly people of Okinawa, Japan. The study, funded by Japan's ministry of health, is the largest of its kind ever carried out. Over the years, the scientists involved have had access to more than 600 Okinawan centenarians. [1]
Kyokuto Hoso Radio (極東放送) was a Japanese commercial radio station broadcasting to Okinawa Prefecture, founded in 1958 as a division of the Far East Broadcasting Company before switching to a secular commercial operation following the reversion of control of Okinawa to Japan, it was headquartered in Urasoe and had JOTF as its callsign.
The station in Shuri City (currently Shuri Samukawa-cho, Naha City) started on March 19, 1942, during the Pacific War. Wired broadcasting was transmitted around Naha, but three years later, in March 1945, the station equipment was damaged in the air raids just before the Battle of Okinawa, and the ceased operating and was temporarily discontinued.
On May 16, 1949, the radio station Voice of Ryukyus was founded by the U.S. military government in the Ryukyu Islands for a trial broadcast under the call sign AKAR, and officially started broadcasting on January 21, 1950, as the first Japanese language broadcast by the U.S. military government to the Ryukyu people, with 75% of the programs broadcast by NHK and 25% by the U.S. Military Government.
Tane Ikai (猪飼たね, Ikai Tane, 18 January 1879 – 12 July 1995) had been, at the time of her death, Japan's oldest person following the death of 114-year-old Waka Shirahama in 1992, while also being the first person in Japan to reach the ages of 115 and 116 and being the last Japanese person born in the 1870s.
Marine Corps Air Station Futenma or MCAS Futenma (Japanese: 海兵隊普天間航空基地, Hepburn: Kaiheitai Futenma Kōkū Kichi) A [2] (ICAO: ROTM) is a United States Marine Corps base located in Ginowan, Okinawa, Japan, 5 NM (9.3 km; 5.8 mi) northeast [1] B of Naha, on the island of Okinawa. It is home to approximately 3,000 [3] Marines of ...
After her retirement, Nakamura became the vice president of the Okinawa Women's Association, [15] an affiliate of the Japanese Women's Association. She participated in a 1983 conference for the parent organization in which official support was given to the Okinawan Historical Film Society for a campaign to have survivors of the war speak of ...