Longevity
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| 2025 | Ten professional baseball teams, including eight Japanese teams and two Korean KBO League teams, held winter training camps across Okinawa Prefecture. |
| 2023 | Sardinia recorded 50,211 foreign national residents, representing 3.2% of the total population, with Romania, Senegal, Morocco, China, and Ukraine being the most represented nationalities. |
| 2023 | The Okinawa Arena hosted the Japanese men's national basketball team for FIBA Basketball World Cup Asian qualifiers. |
| 2023 | The planned relocation of U.S. Marines to Marine Corps Base Camp Blaz was expected to be completed, though the process was still ongoing. |
| 2023 | Ryukyu Golden Kings won their fifth national basketball title in the B.League. |
| 2023 | Okinawa Arena was one of five venues selected to host matches for the FIBA Basketball World Cup, alongside venues in the Philippines and Indonesia. |
| April 6 2023 | Management company BASE officially filed for bankruptcy, effectively ending the Ryukyu Blue Oceans professional baseball team project. |
| 2022 | Kane Tanaka dies as the second oldest documented person and the oldest Japanese, having lived 119 years. |
| November 2022 | The Ryukyu Blue Oceans baseball team project was put on hold due to COVID-19 pandemic complications and allegations of financial mismanagement, including unpaid player wages. |
| 2021 | Giorgio Armani began sponsoring the annual Superyacht Regatta, taking over from Loro Piana. |
| 2020 | Passenger data analysis reveals Olbia, Santa Teresa Gallura, and Palau as the most popular arrival ports in Sardinia. |
| July 2020 | Scientists analyzed public biological data from 1.75 million people with known lifespans, identifying 10 genomic loci that intrinsically influence healthspan, lifespan, and longevity. The study revealed previously unreported genomic locations and highlighted haem metabolism as a promising area for longevity research, suggesting that high blood iron levels may reduce and certain iron metabolism genes may increase healthy years of life. |
| January 2020 | Ryukyu Blue Oceans baseball team expected to be fully organized by January. |
| July 18 2019 | BASE Okinawa Baseball Club announced the formation of the Ryukyu Blue Oceans, the first professional baseball team in Okinawa, with plans to join the Nippon Professional Baseball league. |
| 2018 | Small-scale liquefied natural gas terminals and a gas pipeline became operational, aimed at reducing the high electric power costs on the island. |
| December 2018 | Unemployment rate decreased to 11.2%, which was 1.8 percentage points higher than the national average and 5.3 percentage points lower than Southern Italian regions, according to the Italian National Institute of Statistics. |
| September 30 2018 | Denny Tamaki was elected as governor of Okinawa prefecture, campaigning on reducing the U.S. military presence on the island. |
| June 25 2018 | Okinawa residents held a protest demonstration at sea against scheduled land reclamation work for U.S. military base relocation. |
| 2017 | Andrea Mura won the Single-Handed Trans-Atlantic Race for the second time. |
| 2016 | Sardinia reorganized its administrative divisions, reducing the number of provinces to four (Nuoro, Oristano, Sassari, South Sardinia) and creating the metropolitan city of Cagliari. |
| December 21 2016 | 10,000 acres of Camp Gonsalves were returned to Japan. |
| July 2016 | Okinawans' opposition to American troops' helipads in the Takae zone of Yanbaru forest intensified after the construction of six new helipads. |
| January 24 2016 | First recorded instance of sleet in Nago, breaking the region's typical tropical climate pattern. |
| January 13 2015 | National government announced funding cuts to Okinawa in response to governor Takeshi Onaga's stance on removing U.S. military bases. |
| 2014 | FC Ryukyu began competing in the national league system, joining either the second or third tier of professional football in Japan. |
| 2013 | Jiroemon Kimura passes away as the oldest man in history with a verified age of 116 years. |
| 2013 | Andrea Mura won the Single-Handed Trans-Atlantic Race while sailing Vento di Sardegna. |
| October 2013 | The Sardinian regional parliament modified Article 12 of the Sardinian Statute, officially defining the entire island as a Free Trade Zone. |
| February 2013 | Portoscuso became the first free trade zone in Sardinia. |
| 2012 | Andrea Mura, skipper of Vento di Sardegna, won the Two Handed Transatlantic Race (Twostar) regatta. |
| 2012 | Unemployment rate increased to 14.6%, primarily due to the Great Recession's negative impact on Sardinian exports, particularly in refined oil, chemical products, mining, and metallurgical sectors. |
| 2011 | U.S. military employed over 9,800 Japanese workers in Okinawa, demonstrating significant local employment through military bases. |
| 2011 | Reported discovery that the U.S. military had kept tens of thousands of barrels of Agent Orange on the island, causing concern among veterans and Okinawans. |
| 2010 | Part of the Louis Vuitton Trophy was held in the Maddalena archipelago. |
| April 2010 | Japanese government proposed a modified plan for U.S. forces relocation after previously freezing the relocation plan. |
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