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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.
Nakamura married a local man in 1940 at her parents' home. He had studied to be a teacher, but finding no employment and being rejected for military service because of poor health, her husband took a post to work at Fuji Electric in Yokohama. [7] In 1941, she was transferred to teach at a secondary school in Kawasaki, in the Kanagawa Prefecture ...
[1]: 91 The following year, with the completion of the microwave relay line between mainland Japan and Okinawa Prefecture, Okinawa TV started the real-time broadcast of programs from mainland Japan. [ 1 ] : 56 At that time, the NHK did not have a branch in Okinawa, so Okinawa TV broadcast some NHK programs such as asadoras from 1964 to 1968.
Radio Okinawa (ラジオ沖縄) is an AM radio station in Okinawa, Japan. The station is an affiliate of the National Radio Network (NRN). It started broadcasting on July 1, 1960.
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]
It will move forward the suspended construction at a time Okinawa's strategic role is seen increasingly important for the Japan-U.S. military alliance in the face of growing tensions with China.
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.
This article focuses on the situation of elderly people in Japan and the recent changes in society. Japan's population is aging. During the 1950s, the percentage of the population in the 65-and-over group remained steady at around 5%. Throughout subsequent decades, however, that age group expanded, and by 1989 it had grown to 11.6% of the ...