Okinawa.* is the newsgroups which talks about events of Okinawa or concerned with Okinawa. Articles in okinawa.* are mainly written in Japanese, but we have never decided about that. You can write here any language you want. Someone who wants to answer or talk to will follow you. NOTICE: We wish you use character's encoding set ISO-2022-INT. Now, okinawa.* are read in major sites in Okinawa. These are read in other prefectures in Japan or other countries, too. Okinawa's newsgroups are currently following... okinawa.books talk about books and bookstores okinawa.chat chat (we Okinawan say it "YUNTAKU") okinawa.comp.editors talk about editors like vi, emacs okinawa.comp.misc general topics about computers not covered elsewhere okinawa.events entertainments, meetings, and other events okinawa.food.misc talk about foods okinawa.general topics concerned with all members who read okinawa.* okinawa.life.misc talk about restaurants, shortcuts, sell & buy okinawa.mail-lists.nirai-kanai gateway for nirai-kanai mailing list okinawa.misc discussions that match no other groups okinawa.networks talk about networks okinawa.networks.bbs talk about BBSs in Okinawa okinawa.networks.isdn talk about ISDNs in Okinawa okinawa.networks.uucp talk about UUCPs in Okinawa okinawa.news.groups discussions and lists of newsgroups of okinawa.* okinawa.news.lists statistical information about this newsgroup okinawa.news.usage how to use the newsgroup okinawa.* okinawa.os.linux discussion about linux okinawa.os.misc discussion about operating systems not covered elsewhere okinawa.os.unix discussion about UNIX okinawa.rec.games discussion about games okinawa.rec.misc discussion about recreational topics okinawa.rec.music discussion about music okinawa.rec.travel discussion about traveling okinawa.recycle for sale, requests for need and give okinawa.soc.misc discussion of Okinawa society. okinawa.sources for the posting of software packages and documentation okinawa.sources.d for any discussion of source postings okinawa.sports.misc talk about sports okinawa.sys.amiga discussion about AMIGA okinawa.sys.ibmpc discussion about IBM-PC and it's clone okinawa.sys.mac discussion about Macintosh okinawa.sys.misc various discussions about any computers okinawa.sys.next discussion about NeXT okinawa.sys.sun discussion about SUN workstation okinawa.test testing all over okinawa Above is okinawa.*'s newsgroups that are used now. The newsgroup okinawa.* has its origin in the name of the biggest island of our prefecture, Okinawa main island. Okinawa is also called "Ryukyu" in the past. Okinawa newsgroups were mainly delivered to internet sites of Okinawa prefecture area. Now, it delivered to not only the area of Okinawa, but also other prefectures and all over the world. We are ready to welcome who concerned with our Okinawa, like you! okinawa news group has chair person. Current chair person is ZUKERAN,Shin . You will find the WWW pages about Okinawa at http://www.ie.u-ryukyu.ac.jp/Travel/Welcome-e.html http://www.bekkoame.or.jp/~horimoto/Iriomote/Iriomote.html http://www.okinawa.ttc.co.jp/ Now, the articles of okinawa newsgroups are mainly written in Japanese. If you don't know how to read Japanese character, ... anyway, you'd better refer to "ftp://ftp.cc.monash.edu.au/pub/nihongo/japan.inf". And you can see JUNET in the file, but it has been dissolved. Newsgroups fj.* are delivered all over the world, independent of JUNET. ------------------------------------------------------------