After having moved from my old place to Sara’s last spring I shut down Radio Go Go Go Ya! for fear of sucking too much bandwidth between it and Vonage and two computers. However, it seems as if Comcast has widened the band enough now so that I can rebroadcast without hiccups. It’ll continue to be Okinawan […]

Today (yesterday Japan time) is “Goya no Hi” (Goya Day) in Okinawa, the most fabulous holiday in all of humankind. As explained before on Goyablog, “5″ can be pronounced “go” and eight can be pronounced “ya” in Japanese, thus 5-8 (May Eight) is Goya Day. To celebrate, I am presently wearing my brightly-colored and goya-bespangled […]

Kendrick Ledet of Smyrna Georgia, one of the three U.S. servicemen convicted for the notorious rape of a 12-year-old Okinawan schoolgirl in 1995, was found dead last week from self-inflicted knife wounds in the apartment of a 22-year-old college student who had been raped and then murdered by strangulation and a blow to the head, […]

It seems as if there was a power outage at my house while I’m here in Tokyo so to those faithful few who listen, I’m sorry but you’ll have to get your fix of Okinawa music elsewhere until I get back on July 22 to put it back up.

Right now Japan Time the Irei no Hi (Memorial Day) services for the war dead of the Battle of Okinawa are being held in the Peace Park at the base of Mabuni Cliff, where the battle effectively ended on June 23, 1945 with the suicides of the two commending officers, Lt. Generals Ushijima and Cho. […]

May 8th in Okinawa is designated “Goya no Hi” (ゴーヤーの日) or “Goya Day” which celebrates the vegetable (gouyaa, bitter melon) popular in Okinawa and after which Goyaboy and Goyablog takes their names. It’s May 8th because of the homonym for the word for “5″ (go) and “8″ (ya) (5.8 = May 8th). This is, of […]

You may have recently noticed the “Now on Radio 5558!” in the sidebar. It shows the band, song, and album art of whatever is streaming on Radio Go Go Goya! from my Mac mini. It’ll mostly be Okinawa Pop on any given day, but when I put up another playlist to listen to at home, […]

Today the Base Realignment and Closure Committee (BRAC) voted on base closures around the United States. When I listened to the news (NPR) it was cast as party time for those states and municipalities who were “spared” base closures and catastrophe for areas voted to “suffer” closures. The party atmosphere demonstrated in Texas in particular […]