Denny in the News: 20 August 2021

 7 parties join forces in a research survey with Prefecture and Ryukyu University on human resource development for heritage conservation.

Governor Denny Tamaki, Ryukyu University President Mutsumi Nishida, Okinawa Science and Technology University Graduate School Campus Chairman Peter Cruz along with others attended an online ceremony to conclude an agreement for cooperation on the managed conservation of the designated World Natural Heritage sites.  

The cooperation agreement was concluded on 19 August among 7 partners including the Prefecture and Ryukyu University on conservation management for World Natural Heritage sites in the north of Okinawa Island and Iriomote Island. The agreement plans long term survey research and human resource development of those who will carry out the conservation management.


The conclusion ceremony was done online.  Governor Denny Tamaki noted, “We’re going to put together a budget to advance our agenda.” Others involved in concluding the agreement are: Okinawa University Graduate School of Science and Technology, Biodiversity Section of the National Institute of Environmental Studies,   Kyushu Branch of the Forestry Research Institute,  Okinawa  Forestry Management Office of the Kyushu Forestry Management Bureau of the Forestry Ministry, and the Okinawa-Amami Natural Environment Office of the Environmental Ministry.  Each organization has long pursued research in nature and culture, and from now on, they will also set themselves to maintaining our heritage by accumulating scientific findings.


As for the designated areas, they will work on monitoring to report to UNESCO. Concerning the human resource development of those to carry this burden,  Ryukyu University President Mutsumi Nishida noted, “We have  extensive research at our school focusing on nature, culture, tourism and World Heritage. I want to send out our students who have taken advantage of this agreement to carry it out.”


Director of  the National Environmental Research Section Hiroya Yamano and Director of the Kyushu Branch of Forestry Research Shinichiro Tomura expressed their enthusiasm for the agreement, “We want to educate the young as researchers.”


Original Japanese article: Ryukyu Shimpo, published Friday 20 August at 05:44

https://news.yahoo.co.jp/articles/b54601e2d7960414d2c8a5c89a91ccd1ea74ca9e


Translator’s Notes

  1. Denny in the News: news about Okinawan Governor Denny Tamaki.

Denny Tamaki is the governor of Okinawa Prefecture in Japan. Although Okinawa is important as an international tourist destination and a key element in strategic US Military Forces, its governor receives very little coverage in the Japanese press and almost none in the English language media. 


  1. This blog hopes to  translate one news article a day on the governor.  It is unsponsored and unauthorized. The translator simply hopes to improve his skills and perhaps give the governor an English speaking audience. Any suggestion on improving the translation will be gratefully accepted. However, please leave political comments for another forum.


  1. Where they occur, words and phrases in Ryukyuan (the Okinawan language) are rendered in italics and translated in parentheses. Names  whose readings are uncertain are rendered as Name (=Kanji?) as in Nagayuki (=長行?). Any corrections in such instances would be of great help.

Comments

Post a Comment

Popular posts from this blog

In the suit over exercise of proxy in the case of the weak seabed at the new Henoko base, judgment to be handed down on 20 December. (4de23)

Image
Splendor of Okinawa: Shrubby Bush Clover, roadside Uruma, 30no23 The seabed at the new base construction site at Henoko in Nago, Okinawa Prefecture, is weak and needs reinforcement. So, the Okinawa Defense Bureau requested permission for the necessary design changes, but Governor Denny Tamaki refused. In response, the Government intends to exercise proxy to give itself permission in place of the governor. The Naha Branch of the Fukuoka High Court announced on 29 November that it will hand down its judgment in the lawsuit filed over the case at 2 pm on 20 December. At the trial on 30 October, Governor Denny Tamaki emphasized in the first oral arguments, “We can in no way accept this exercise of proxy, which violates the autonomy and independence of Okinawa.”  He further stressed the will of the prefecture’s people in opposition to the new base construction as the ‘Public will’. In addition, he requested to show that the  path to resolution lay in dialogue. The trial was conclud...
Read more

Governor Denny receives the report on JUNGLIA at the 4 month mark after its opening. (7de25)

Image
Splendor of Okinawa: Temple Tree, Mihama Beach, 1de25 CEO Takeshi Kato of Japan Entertainment (JE), which manages JUNGLIA Okinawa, visited Governor Denny Tamaki at the Prefectural Office on 28 November.  　 The CEO reported on the 4 months since the attraction’s opening. He repeatedly brought up dealing with operational improvements and such based on the voices of visitors to the park.  　 The CEO specifically mentioned the evening concerts in the park’s garden and, starting from December, the free entry of one child with each adult, targeting the prefecture’s people. CEO Kato stated, “We’d like to be contributing to Okinawa’s tourism as well.” Governor Tamaki, alluding to his speech the same day, entitled “Declaration on Sustainable Tourism”, stated, “For the people, employees, and tourists of our prefecture, this is an important win-win format. We’d like to have JE’s cooperation in many, many more initiatives.” Original Japanese article: Ryukyu Shimpo, published Sunday 30 Nov...
Read more

In Okinawa, Candidate Takara takes hold of the Henoko opposition parties as their new face, urging,”Let’s earnestly come to grips with these issues together.” (21jy25).

Image
Splendor of Okinawa: Mexican Petunia, Gushikawa RC Church, 13jy25. In the House of Councilors Election for the Okinawa Election District, independent candidate Sachika Takara (46), endorsed by All Okinawa, which opposes the relocation of the US Military Futenma Airfield in Ginowan to Henoko in Nago, both in Okinawa Prefecture, scored a victory. She defeated the Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) Party’s new candidate Ryo Okuma (38) in the election campaign.  Candidate Takara pledged before her supporters, “The Henoko problem is something our prefecture’s people have taken into our hearts. We’re going to earnestly come to grips with it together.”  With their eyes on a victory in next year’s gubernatorial election, her victory was a bitter blow to the LDP. Governor Denny Tamaki, who held the job of Candidate Takara’s campaign headquarters chief, stressed, “The will of the people in opposition to the relocation remains unshaken.” In recent mayoral elections, All Okinawa’s fortunes ha...
Read more