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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
New Navy Hospital siren testing raises locals’ ire [News]
Local residents are complaining to Ginowan City Military Base Liaison Section of “a piercing siren sound” emitting from the new Navy Hospital now under construction on Camp Foster ...
Year End Jumbo Lottery winners in Okinawa [News]
The biggest lottery in Japan is called “the Year End Jumbo Lottery,” which is raffled on national TV on New Year Eve. The shops, which sold the winning tickets were announced on Ja...
Fire destroys private house [News]
A fire destroyed a wooden one-story private house owned by a 68-year-old woman in Ishikawa, Uruma City, in the morning of Jan. 17. According to Ishikawa Police, three people of the...
Elderly woman seriously injured in traffic accident [News]
A mini-car driven by a 41-year-old female nurse hit a 74-year-old woman who was crossing the road at a city crossing in Miyazato, Okinawa City at 2:15 p.m., Sunday. The elderly wom...
Airman killed in motorcycle accident [News]
An airman riding on a motorcycle crashed into a mini car in Sunabe on Jan. 18. According to Okinawa Police, 28-year-old Douglas Bearson, a military member assigned to Kadena Air Ba...
Purse snatcher strikes in Ginowan [News]
A man approaching from behind snatched a shoulder bag containing a bank cash card and ¥30,000 in cash from a 42-year-old woman who was walking on a street in Nodake, Ginowan City, ...
Okito Taxi introduces taxi ordering app for smartphones [News]
Okito Kotsu Cooperative Association, also known as Okito Taxi Group, has introduced an application for requesting a taxi from a smart phone starting the 10th of January. To use his...
This one almost got away [News]
A black male calf being prepared for transshipment from Miyako Island to Kagoshima decided he wasn’t thrilled with the notion, so slipped from his container, evaded would-be rescue...
U.S. Navy sailor arrested in Yokusuka for trespassing, another for assaulting security guard [News]
A 20-year-old U.S. Navy sailor is in Japanese custody after being arrested on suspicion of trespassing at a residence in Yokusuka, Kanagawa Prefecture. Seaman Manuel Silva was take...
Prefecture official calls Okinawa Futenma relocation impossible [News]
An Okinawa Prefecture official continues to insist that it is virtually impossible to move the Futenma Marine Corps Air Station within the prefecture, based on the current relocati...
Minister hints yen should not fall past ¥100 to dollar [News]
Akira Amari, Japanese minister for industrial revitalization, is speaking out that the yen is approaching an appropriate level, and should not fall past ¥100 to the dollar. Referr...
Chinese in Senkakus scramble Japanese planners [News]
The continuous intrusions by Chinese ships and aircraft into Japanese waters around the Senkaku Islands in southwest Okinawa Prefecture has triggered Japanese bureaucrats into prep...
Army paper notes Kadena kept Agent Orange in ‘71 [News]
The clue was only a single sentence buried in 7,000 pages of government documents released by the Pentagon, but the powerful sentence states conclusively that the U.S. military mai...
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American spy drones considered for Japanese marine surveillance [News]
The growing tensions between China and Japan over the disputed Senkaku islands, owned and administratively controlled by Japan, but claimed by China, has caused Japan to consider u...
Old man drives car off pier, drowns in Yomitan [News]
A passer-by noticed a mini-car in the bottom of the sea by the mooring pier in Toya Fishing Port in Yomitan at 9:20 a.m., Jan. 9, and called the police and fire station. Kadena pol...
Thief nabbed after ¥5 million jewelry heist [News]
Uruma Police arrested a 38-year-old man, Jan. 10, on charges of stealing rings and other valuables from a jewelry shop in Taba, Uruma City. Investigators describe Tsukasa Shimabuku...
Fatal hit-and-run in Katsuren Saturday [News]
A fatal traffic accident occurred on the prefectural Road 8 in the Katsuren district of Uruma City at 2 a.m., Saturday. According to Uruma Police, a car ran over a man crossing the...
Tanker runs aground off Miyako, one dead, one missing [News]
A small 99-ton tanker “TJ88” registered to a Mongolian company ran aground on a reef about 2 km east of Irabu island in Miyakojima City about 0:55 a.m., Monday, and sent a signal r...
Live-in boyfriend fingered for Naha jewelry theft [News]
Naha police arrested a 50-year-old self-styled artist from Tomari district of Naha City on Jan. 8, on a charge of theft. Investigators say that Yoshihiro Ishioka stole jewelry, inc...
Pieces of human bones shed light to Miyako past [News]
Two human bones were discovered at Tomori Moto-Jima Ruin in Tomori district of Gusukube , Miyakojima City, Jan. 12. One of the bones was discovered from a layer of soil dating back...
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