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 <shin@opus.or.jp>.


 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.

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