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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
F-15 fighter aircraft scrambled after Chinese jets spotted near Senkakus [News]
Japan’s Air Self Defense Force is getting some real world training, scrambling F-15 fighters this weekend after a Chinese aircraft approached the Senkaku Islands in the East China ...
2013.01.13
Naha City unveils new City Hall [News]
It’s not exactly what the city fathers had in mind when they began planning for a new Naha City Hall and Office Building, but it’s what came about after they discovered the coffers...
Government cautious in seeking landfill permit for Henoko [News]
Japan will carefully consider when to apply to the Okinawa governor for approval for reclamation work that is crucial to the planned relocation of a U.S Marine Corps base in the so...
Chinese ambassador summoned over ship in Senkaku waters [News]
The latest incursion of a Chinese ship into waters controlled by Japan pushed the Foreign Ministry into summoning the Chinese Ambassador to Japan for a diplomatic scolding. Tokyo s...
2013.01.11
JASDF wants fighters deployed to Shimoji Island [News]
The old civilian airport on Shimoji Island off Miyako Island is getting a second lease on life, at least if the Japanese Air Self Defense Force has its way. The airport, which curr...
Prime Minister may visit Okinawa [News]
Four Japanese cabinet ministers have agreed to consider Prime Minister Shinzo Abe’s visit to Okinawa as part of the government’s efforts to make progress in issues rela...
Resident dies when flames engulf house [News]
Flames ripped through a single-story residential structure in Urasoe City’s Miyagi district one morning last week, leaving in its wake the body believed to be than of an unemployed...
Three injured as explosion rocks Urasoe home [News]
Three people were injured Monday by an explosive hidden inside a plain paper bag in a residential district of Urasoe City after a man picked it up and took it into his house. Polic...
Okinawa-based MSDF sailor arrested for assault [News]
Police in Miyako, Iwate Prefecture, arrested a 21-year-old male Maritime Self-Defense Force sailor who lives in Toma district of Naha City and his 23-year-old 4th year university s...
Tomigusuku population passes 60,000 mark [News]
Tomigusuku city population exceeded 60,000 as of the end of Dec. 2012, becoming the 6th largest city in Okinawa surpassing Itoman. There are 11 cities in Okinawa Prefecture. The po...
Naha fire destroys three houses, no injuries [News]
A private house in Yogi, Naha City, caught sire at 8 a.m. on Sunday, and the fire spread to two neighboring houses as well. All three one-story buildings were totally destroyed. Na...
Man and teen dependent girl nabbed for theft [News]
Okinawa police arrested a self-styled male sports supervisor from Camp Kinser, and a female underage military dependent from Kadena Air Base Sunday on suspicion of theft, Okinawa C...
Night angler disappears, drowns at Naha seawall [News]
A boat operator reported to the 11th Regional Coast Guard Headquarters 10 a.m. Sunday morning, that an angler that the operator had taken to a seawall off Naha New Port a day earli...
Eight-car pile-up on Aja Bridge [News]
An eight-car pile-up involving five passenger vehicles, one U.S. military vehicle and two Y-plate cars took place on an elevated Aja bridge on Hwy 58 in Jitchaku district of Urasoe...
U.S. sailors sue TEPCO over nuclear accident [News]
U.S. Navy sailors have sued Tokyo Electric Power Co. over radiation exposure in the wake of the nuclear accident at its Fukushima No. 1 power plant in northeastern Japan. In the su...
Expressway construction to affect Yaka IC & Kin IC [News]
Traffic jams are a distinct possibility on a northern stretch of the Okinawa Expressway between January and March as construction is taking place on the Yakadaiichi Elevated Bridge...
2013.01.01
Futenma dominated Okinawa’s news in 2012 [News]
By Bill Charles The word Futenma reverberates across Okinawa, and then across the Pacific and even to the United States this year as everybody wants to do something with the contro...
2013.01.01
Whale watching season 2013 has arrived [News]
With the Zamami Village Whale Watching Association confirming the spotting of a humpback whale about 5 km off north northwest of Zamami Island at noon on Dec. 29th. The spotting s...
New Year weather forecasted to be less than perfect [News]
A cold front passing through is predicted to make this New Year less than perfect as far as the weather is concerned. Sunday probably was the worst as rain and strong winds prevai...
2012.12.31
Ishigaki’s new airport to open in March [News]
It’s a project that has taken decades to accomplish, but the new Ishigaki Airport will open for business on March 7th. The new airport, first planned in 1976 and after conservation...
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