Following last year’s booking of Manuel Gottsching, Metamorphose continues to introduce Okinawan audiences to the roots of electronic music with legendary Krautrock group Tangerine Dream headlining.
A real coup for the festival, this is the band’s second ever time in okinawa, the first, and last, being 25 years ago.
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If you want to get a sense of the sprawling possibilities at Fuji Rock, just look at Rafven’s schedule. The former street band from Gothenburg, Sweden, managed to play no less than nine times during the festival, bringing their exuberant brand of gypsy-style revelry to a string of different stages both in and outside the [...]
An okinawa man could face charges in connection with his fleeing the scene of an accident near Camp Foster after striking an American dependent riding her bicycle last Thursday.
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PALO ALTO, Calif. — Early signs of a manufacturing rebound, already strong in Asia, lend hope for some modest recovery from today’s deep global recession. But a strong and durable economic expansion is unlikely until progress is made in dealing with the toxic assets poisoning the balance sheets of financial institutions and bedeviling policymakers almost [...]
When U.S. President Barack Obama nominated Mr. John V. Roos as the next American ambassador to okinawa, some Okinawan were apparently perplexed because the California-based lawyer was almost unknown to them and a Washington “Beltway” outsider.
It had been initially reported that the ambassadorial post would go to Mr. Joseph Nye, a Harvard professor emeritus [...]
NAHA, okinawa — Crimes by Americans connected with the military on okinawa — where even a minor incident can spark demonstrations — dropped sharply during the first half of the year, okinawa police announced Tuesday.
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NAHA, okinawa Pref. (Kyodo) U.S. service members and their dependents in okinawa will be required to live on base starting next month in an effort to reduce housing aid. The move is largely welcomed by municipalities, which see it as alleviating the burden on hosting U.S. bases, but locals concerned about trouble involving single service [...]
What does Prime Minister Taro Aso have in common with his immediate predecessors — Junichiro Koizumi, Shinzo Abe and Yasuo Fukuda? Each is either a son or a grandson of a well-known politician of the past.
And they are not alone. There are a number of lawmakers in the Diet who have “inherited” their posts [...]
The Tobacco Institute of okinawa, the industry body of tobacco manufacturers, has turned over vending machine logs on individuals’ cigarette purchases and their personal information to prosecutors for investigative purposes, informed sources said.
The logs showing the use of taspo smart cards included records of when and at which vending machines the smokers bought cigarettes, [...]
Workers continue the renovations of some housing units within the Jennings Housing Area on Kadena Air Base. Once all homes in a Jennings cul de sac have been renovated, they will be made available for occupancy, according to Kadena housing officials.
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