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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
2013.02.22
Minister of Foreign Affairs visits Marine Corps Bases on Okinawa [News]
Fumio Kishida, the Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Government of Japan visited Marine Corps Installations and met with key leaders from the Marine Corps to include Maj. Gen. Pet...
ANA wins Airline of the Year honors [News]
All Nippon Airways has been chosen 2013 Airline of the Year by Air Transport World, the global airline industry’s leading monthly magazine. Washington-based Air Transport World has...
Trespassing Marine arrested from Ginowan home rooftop [News]
Only days after the Marines’ senior leadership on Okinawa lifted a curfew instituted last fall in the wake of a rape incident, a drunken Marine has been arrested by Japanese police...
Man arrested for old case of attempted robbery [News]
Man arrested for old case of attempted robbery Better late than never could be the slogan Okinawa City Police are humming as they nabbed a suspect in a robbery attempt of a conveni...
Couple nabbed for stealing to pay for tourist trip [News]
Ginowan Police announced that a husband and wife from Tochigi Prefecture who were arrested for shoplifting in a large supermarket in Okinawa, were found to have stolen 370 items in...
Truck flips on its side injuring young unlicensed driver [News]
A 18-year-old high school student without a driver’s license lost control of a light truck he was driving on prefectural road 85 in Yaejima, Okinawa City, about 9:40 p.m. Friday. T...
2011 tsunami floats Miyagi mailbox to Iriomote [News]
A mailbox that seems that to have drifted from Minami-Sanriku Town in Miyagi prefecture as a result of the Great Kanto Earthquake and Tsunami was found at the seashore at northeast...
2013.02.14
Gima ousted in Urasoe City mayoral election [News]
The three-term incumbent mayor of Urasoe City was turned out of office Sunday, to be replaced by a relative youngster who’s vowing to make changes on everything from the U.S. milit...
Chinese vessel locks radar lock on Japanese ship [News]
The escalating tensions in the Senkaku group of islands in the East China Sea in southwestern Okinawa ratcheted another notch as a Chinese Navy frigate locked its weapons-targeting...
Yomitan mayor calls curfew too lenient [News]
The curfew imposed last fall on American service personnel following the rape of a young Okinawan woman isn’t doing much good, in the eyes of a local mayor. The mayor of Yomitan, D...
Man held for stabbing friend [News]
Naha police arrested a self-employed man in Matsuo, Naha City on a charge of an attempted murder on Feb. 7. According to investigators, 34-year-old Takashi Dobashi stabbed his frie...
Woman’s scream foils robbery attempt in Yomitan [News]
When a 57-year-old woman tried to enter to her home in an apartment building in the Ooki district of Yomitan Village at 1:10 a.m. on Feb. 10, a man showed up and thrust a knife at ...
Man run over by three cars [News]
A female 26-year-old civil servant driving her mini car hit a 24-year-old fishery worker crossing the road at the Namihira district of Yomitan Village in the evening of Feb. 9. Aft...
Elderly woman dies in traffic accident on Ie island [News]
A 62-year-old self-employed man driving his car hit an elderly woman on a road in the Kawahira district of Ie Island on the morning of Feb. 2. The woman, 80-year-old Kazuko Kinjo, ...
Civilian held on suspicion of hit-and-run, DUI [News]
Okinawa Prefecture Police arrested a civilian working on Camp Foster on suspicion of driving drunk, causing and accident and then leaving the scene, Tuesday. Police say they arrest...
Airman arrested for drunk driving, causing accident [News]
A 41-year-old American stationed at Kadena Air Base is in Japanese custody, charged with causing an accident while driving under the influence of alcohol. The arrest of Eric Simmon...
North Korea defies world and conducts nuclear test [News]
North Korea thumbed its nose at the world this week, conducting a 6-7 kiloton nuclear test Tuesday that rattled seismographs to a 4.9 level. The epicenter of the nuclear test, auth...
Senkaku unrest spurs new Coast Guard unit [News]
A special Japan Coast Guard unit with nearly a dozen large patrol boats is now being structured to deal with surveillance of the Senkaku islands. The Japan Coast Guard says the new...
Prime Minister vows to defend Senkaku Islands [News]
Japan’s Prime Minister is sending strong signals he’s not going to be intimidated by Chinese actions around the Senkaku Islands in southwestern Okinawa Prefecture, vowing to defend...
Chinese fishing boat crew freed by Japan [News]
After more than 24 hours in custody after being detained on charges of illegal fishing in Japanese territorial waters, Japan on Sunday released the captain and crew of a Chinese fi...
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