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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
Orion Happy Park reaches 200,000-visitor mark [News]
A facility within the Orion Beer Co. called “The Orion Happy Park” that allows visitors to the brewery to watch the beer making process, celebrated its 200,000th visitor on Feb. 28...
12 hibiscus plants stolen from Nago main street [News]
12 hibiscus plants have been stolen from the main street of Nago City, from both sides of the street along a stretch from the Nago Crossing The Nago Chuo-dori Association that cons...
Koza Gate Street Association gathers to urge ending curfew [News]
The Koza Gate Street Association, which is consists of owners of shops on Gate 2 Street area gathered at Koza Music Town on Mar. 1, and had a rally demanding the end to the current...
Court: No new environmental requirements for Henoko project [News]
A lawsuit filed by Okinawa residents seeking a new environmental impact assessment to block or slow the process for a new military airfield at Henoko has been tossed out by the Na...
Abe not bending on Senkaku Islands being Japanese [News]
Prime Minister Shinzo Abe has expressed Japan’s resolve to maintain its sovereignty over the Senkaku Islands in the East China Sea and defend the islands on its own. In a spe...
Sailors found guilty of raping Okinawa woman [News]
A pair of U.S. Navy sailors whose rape of a woman in Okinawa City last fall led to curfews and restrictions on off-base drinking have been found guilty of the crime by a Japanese c...
Marines show off Osprey to local residents on MCAS [News]
The III MEF of the USMC invited 300 people, including families, to MCAS Futenma for a showing of the MV-22 Osprey aircraft, Mar. 3. People who were invited were local residents who...
Private house in Okinawa City completely burns down [News]
A call to Okinawa City emergency number reached the city Fire Department Sunday sfternoon informing the firefighters that the second floor of a private house appeared to be on fire...
U.S. Secretary of State sides with Japan on Senkakus [News]
It didn’t take long for the new American Secretary of State to become potentially embroiled in a political hot potato, taking side with Japan in the dispute of the Senkaku Islands ...
Japan to initiate request for landfill process approval [News]
Even as Japan’s Prime Minister, Shinzo Abe, was in Washington a few days ago for a summit with American President Barack Obama, the wheels began turning to reenergize the relocatio...
Anti-Osprey group to disband [News]
Defining its group as having “served a certain mission,” a major opponent to the Marine Corps MV-22 Ospreys says it’s calling it quits. The organizing committee of the group which ...
Civilian arrested for violence [News]
Okinawa Police arrested Joseph Green, a civilian working with the U.S. military, Saturday morning, on suspicion of committing a violent act in Okinawa City. According to Okinawa Ci...
Man robs ¥500,000 from office in Okinawa City [News]
A man wearing a ski mask robbed ¥500,000 in cash from the office of a company running a junk recycling business in the Koja district of Okinawa City, Friday. According to Okinawa C...
Woman arrested for attempted robbery [News]
A woman was arrested at a Yakiniku (roasted beef) restaurant in Nishihara because on suspicion of an attempted robbery. Police say she had pointed a knife to the staff of the resta...
Ai Miyazato in car accident in Thailand [News]
Okinawan lady pro-golfer Ai Miyazato got into a car accident in Thailand, Sunday. The car, in which Miyazato was a passenger was caught in a pileup while on the way to the airport....
WWII-era ammunition discovered in Itoman [News]
861 unused rounds of ammunition were found in an underground bunker by a private house in Maesato district of Itoman City. Five hand grenades and one unexploded bombshell was found...
Motobu Town Assembly member drowns [News]
A Motobu Town Assembly Member Masaaki Maeda, representing the Communist Party of Japan, Was found floating in Motobu Fishing Port early in the morning of Feb. 24. He was taken to a...
Gate design contest for Okinawa Zoo Park [News]
Okinawa City officials have announced a contest for designing a gate to be installed at the entrance of the road leading to Okinawa Kodomo-no Kuni Zoo. According to Okinawa City sp...
One drunk driver suspect arrested in crackdown [News]
Okinawa Prefecture Police conducted a crackdown at 36 points of Okinawan main roads and Okinawa Expressway exits from midnight of Feb. 15th trough the morning of the 16th. Around 2...
Defibrillators to be installed in Naha convenience stores [News]
Naha City will install AED (Automated External Defibrillator) machines to all 24-hour convenience stores in Naha City by the end of March. There are a total of 118 24-hour convenie...
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