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・11/26 Nago Autumn Fireworks Festival @ Nago Fishing Port 17:00~21:00 (Fireworks 20:00~) Free to enter https://r.goope.jp/srb-47-37/info/479...Read More
The Okinawa Zoo needs your help [News]
The Okinawa Zoo is now asking for Crowd-Funding support in order to raise money to help feed the animals at the zoo. Due to COVID19, attenda...Read More
Junior high school teacher arrested for obscene act [News]
Okinawa Prefecture Police arrested Wednesday a male teacher of a junior high school in middle Okinawa on suspicion of having engaged in a sexual relationship with one of his studen...
Traffic signs get English signage [News]
Because of the large increase in the number of foreign tourists, Okinawa Prefectural Police is replacing traffic warning signs with “STOP” or “SLOW” written in Japanese, with new o...
Participants invited to “trial move” to remote islands of Uruma City [News]
Uruma City experiment, “Trial Move to Uruma City Island” that aimed to attract people willing to move to the outlying islands of the city as one of the measurements to stop their d...
2017.10.06
Gyokusendo Cave selected “Trip Advisor photogenic spot” [News]
“Trip Advisor” website announced Sep. 29 results of a survey to select “photogenic sightseeing spots of summer season” based on photos posted on the Trip Advisor website. In the se...
Opera “Tosca” scheduled for Convention Center Theater [News]
One of the world’s best known operas, “Tosca,” by Giacomo Puccini, will be staged at Okinawa Convention Center Theater in Ginowan City on Dec. 7th. The performance is supported by ...
Worldwide Eisa Festival 2017 to take place in November [News]
The Worldwide Eisa Festival 2017, scheduled for Nov. 4 & 5 at National Theater Okinawa in Urasoe, will have 31 Eisa groups taking part, and in addition, 19 groups will vie for ...
Urasoe company exhibits automotive airbrush art [News]
Nakanishi Automobile Service Station in Urasoe City is holding an exhibition of the works of Shinichi Noda, an airbrush artist. in its showroom to celebrate the first anniversary o...
White lion Serum selected Okinawa Zoo favorite [News]
Okinawa Zoo & Museum conducted an election among its visitors to choose the favorite among its animals in 2017, and the Zoo’s white male lion named “Serum” was voted for the fa...
New owner to renovate, rename Okinawa Miyako Hotel [News]
A company related to the American investment bank Morgan Stanley is purchasing the land, building and management rights to Okinawa Miyako Hotel in Naha City. According to people fa...
American children present “senbazuru” to Chibichiri Gama [News]
In response to the recent vandalism by four local teems in Chibichiri-gama (Cave), a site of a mass suicide during the Battle of Okinawa, children and families of the U.S. military...
Kumi Bridge in Naha reopens after delays, cost overruns [News]
The Kumi Bridge replacement construction in Kumoji, Naha City, has been completed after several delays, and the bridge reopened Saturday. The demolition of the temporary bridge and...
Okinawa Expressway celebrates 30th anniversary [News]
A survey by West Nippon Expressway Co., Ltd. of the use of the Okinawa Expressway celebrating its 30th anniversary of operation this October, shows that users took 50 million trips...
Taiwan company introduces electric scooters to Ishigaki [News]
Gogoro Co., a Taiwanese company operating an electric scooter rental service, and Sumitomo Corp. announced Thursday that they plan to introduce electric scooter rental service to t...
Man dies in fatal fell into Ta waterfall [News]
Ippei Kagawa, a 41-year-old restaurant worker from Motobu Town, fell about 20 meters to his death into Ta waterfall in Tsuha, Ogimi Village, about noon Thursday. He was taken to a ...
Ryukyu Golden Kings’ calendar 2018 for sale at FamilyMart [News]
Okinawa FamilyMart and Marumasa Printing Co. announced Thursday the publication of the “Kings Calendar 2018”, a joint project to support the Ryukyu Golden Kings pro-basketball team...
Tomigusuku factories woo visitors with stamp rally [News]
Uema Kashiten, Okinawa Tokusan Hanbai, Chuko Shuzou, and “Komomachi Design”, a consulting company, are joining forces to invigorate the local area by the just launched “Tomigusuku ...
Miyako Airport facility will be extended in 2019 [News]
The higher than expected increase in the number of tourists visiting Miyako Island has prompted the Miyako Airport Terminal administrators to decide to expand the airport terminal ...
Baby-sitting service for foreign tourists starts on Okinawa [News]
TRP Japan Co., Ltd., an Okinawan company based in Itoman, has started a baby-sitting service for foreign tourists visiting Okinawa. As the number of families taking tours with chil...
“Henza Los Angeles” enters Chinese mail order website [News]
Products of “Henza Los Angeles”, a fashion brand created by Okinawan Rena Henza, has been included in the line-up of the fashion website “Tabbao”, the largest fashion mail order we...
Artist Theo Jansen’s “live” artworks first time in Okinawa [News]
“Theo Jansen Exhibition Okinawa 2017” art exhibition sponsored by Theo Jansen Exhibition Committee with special cooperation by Okinawa Times newspaper is scheduled to open Oct. 3 a...
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