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The “PayPay” app is offering cash back u… [CURRENT ISSUE News Technology]
“PayPay” is one of the most popular electronic payment apps in Japan. Ginowan city is trying to promote and encourage cashless payment on th...Read More
Recording services offered to the public… [News]
Okinawa Public Theater Ashibina in Okinawa city is offering recording services in the hall of the facility. Due to COVID-19, a lot of events...Read More
Go To Eat Campaign begins [Gourmet News]
The “Go To Eat Premium Ticket Campaign” has started and began on Nov. 17th. The “Go To Eat Campaign” is focused on supporting food service e...Read More
Pizza House Restaurant to re-open in Minatogawa [News]
Pizza House, an iconic western style restaurant that first opened in 1958 in Okinawa City and closed in 2010 in Gusukuma, Urasoe, is scheduled to re-open its main restaurant in Min...
Yonabaru Town opens new Internet portal site [News]
Yonabaru Town has opened its “YONABARUNAVI” sightseeing portal site to introduce sightseeing places, events, and history of Yonabaru Town. A ceremony to announce the opening was he...
Okinawa Expressway to be extended from Kyoda past Nago [News]
The government is studying plans to extend the Okinawa Expressway to north past Nago by connecting the Expressway and Nago Higashi (East) Road in order to improve access to the nor...
Next “general election” of new AKB48 members slated for Okinawa [News]
The 9th “general election” of new members for the hugely popular girls’ pop group “AKB48” is scheduled for Chura Sun Beach in Toyosaki Seaside Park on Jun. 17th. The event will be ...
Motorbikes to be banned from Highway 58 in Onna [News]
A stretch of Highway 58 in Onna Village will be off-limits to motorbikes, including scooters, between 10 p.m. and 4 a.m. starting Apr. 1st. According to Ishikawa Police, the 5.5-ki...
Okinawa land prices increase by 3.1% from previous year [News]
In its annual survey of land prices covering 26,000 locations throughout the country, the Ministry of Land, Infrastructure, Transport and Tourism announced Tuesday that the land pr...
Man arrested for selling two police uniforms on Internet [News]
Police has arrested a 48-year-old man after he sold two police uniforms on an Internet auction site. Investigators say Kouji Isoe was arrested on Mar. 17th, on suspicion of counter...
Kitadaito doctor leaves island after threat from DUI driver [News]
The Kitadaito Island Medical Clinic has been without its only permanent doctor since the beginning of February, when the female doctor of the clinic was involved in a traffic accid...
High school students create Sanpin cha-shiqwasa cake [News]
Okinawa Kogyo High School and Okiko Pan Co. bakery have jointly developed a cake using Okinawan sanpin cha (local jasmine tea) “Ryukyu no Hana” and shiqwasa juice as major ingredie...
Monorail fare for students of low-income families to be cut to half [News]
Monorail fare for high school students of low-income families on Okinawa will be cut to half from April. The 2nd board of directors meeting of the “Okinawa Prefectural Conference f...
Reported child abuse cases record high in 2016 [News]
According to figures compiled by the Okinawa Prefectural Police Juvenile Division, the number of reported child abuse cases in the prefecture rose to record high 384 cases in 2016 ...
Master habu catcher avoids slammer on technicality [News]
60-year-old Hiroyasu Makishi, a well-known master habu catcher who has caught habu snakes in the mountains of the northern Okinawa for more than 30 years, was arrested on suspicion...
U.S. Military produces 1.8 times more waste than Okinawans [News]
According to Okinawa Prefecture officials, the U.S. military produced a total of 26,332 tons of general waste in 2015, 11.4 percent more tan the previous year and the first time si...
Hijiki Seaweed Harvest Festival held on Camp Courtney beach [News]
The best season to harvest hijiki seaweed is now, and the beach on the premises of U.S. Marines’ Camp Courtney was open to public on Mar. 11 for picking up hijiki. About 100 people...
Mihama to experiment with driverless cart transportation [News]
Mihama area in Chatan will be the first area in Okinawa to experiment with driverless vehicle transportation. The National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology (...
Ginowan fishing boat missing since March 8 [News]
An emergency call Saturday morning from Urasoe-Ginowan Fishermen’s Association to the 11th Regional Coast Guard Headquarters reported that one of their member boats had failed to r...
Kadena Police to use drones for rescue missions [News]
Kadena Police and Yomitan Hikou Association concluded a contract to use drones at the time of disasters on Monday. The idea is to use drones under the direction of Kadena Police to...
Yomitan launches Zanpa Street revitalization project [News]
“Zanpa-Dori Okoshi Kai” or Zanpa Street Revitalization Project has just been launched in Yomitan Village. For the project, four local restaurant owners banded together in order to ...
San-A again favorite of job-seeking students [News]
According to an annual survey by Radical Okinawa, the publisher of the employment magazine “Rookie,” San-A supermarket and retail shop chain is the favorite company to work for amo...
Scientific amusement park to open at AEON Rycom Mall [News]
A new scientific amusement park is scheduled to open at AEON Rycom shopping mall from this Friday (Mar. 17). The park features optical illusion and 3D art in its 40 experimental ed...
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