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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 Year store hours not much different than everyday [News]
A sign of the changing times is that holidays are a time to stay away from work, unless you work for a store, in which case you’re still working while everyone else comes to visit....
Marine arrested for driving drunk [News]
Naha Police arrested a 24-year-old Marine on suspicion of drunk driving Saturday afternoon. Naha Police say they arrested LCpl. Eric Lopez, who is stationed on Camp Kinser, after h...
U.S. Marine arrested for home intrusion in Naha [News]
A U.S. Marine Corps corporal stationed at Camp Hansen in Okinawa was arrested Friday by local police on suspicion of trespassing onto a fourth floor apartment veranda in Naha. Okin...
Chinese ships continue to sail disputed Senkaku waters [News]
Political observers who thought China would back off on sending its ships into Japanese territorial waters after the Liberal Democratic Party won the Lower House elections almost t...
Anti-Osprey march draws 3,000 protesters [News]
A crowd of nearly 3,000 unruly protesters marched through Okinawa streets Sunday, continuing their long-running opposition to assignment of MV-22 Osprey aircraft to the island. Whi...
Two houses burn to ground, arson suspected [News]
A private house in the Makabe district of Itoman City burned down and was completely destroyed in a fire that broke out in the early hours of Christmas Eve. A call from a resident ...
Food poisoning kills raw chicken from pub menu [News]
Okinawa Prefecture Environment and Living Division announced Dec. 21 that two men of a group of three men in their 20’s who ate dishes at restaurant Ashidori in Izumizaki, Naha Cit...
Kokusai Street introduces regular Sunday entertainment [News]
The opening event of “Kokusai Street Performer Event” that is planned to become a regular part of Sunday programs on Kokusai Street by an organization of street performers, was hel...
Mini car fatally hit pedestrian sitting on street [News]
A 19-year-old male college student driving a mini car hit 66-yearr-old Satoru Arakaki who had fallen down and was sitting on the road on Kokutai Street in Kamisedo, Chatan, in the ...
Okinawa City firefighter nabbed for DUI [News]
Okinawa Prefectural Police nabbed a firefighter from Okinawa City Fire Department Headquarters on charges of DUI on Dec. 10. The incident came to light during a city assembly meeti...
Kite surfing tourist dies [News]
A 59-year-old company employee from Chiba Prefecture, Mikio Suzuki was kite surfing off Hateno-Hama Beach in Kumejima Town, when a sudden strong gust of wind flipped him pver, and ...
TV cameraman nabbed for DUI [News]
Naha Police arrested a cameraman who works at Ryukyu Asahi TV station (QAB) as a temporary employee, 29-yea-old Yoshinobu Shimoji, on a charge of violating the Road Traffic Law on ...
Chinese paper warns against Shinzo Abe’s hard-line stance [News]
A Communist Party of China newspaper, in the editorial of its Monday edition, warns against the hard-line stance taken against the country by Liberal Democratic Party leader Shinzo...
Senkaku Islands on nearly everybody’s mind [News]
A Chinese aircraft has intruded into Japanese airspace over the Senkaku Islands in southwestern Okinawa Prefecture, raising concerns from the national government and the Prefecture...
Turnout record low in Japan Lower House election [News]
Voter turnout in Japan’s House of Representatives election on Sunday came to a record low of 59.32%, the internal affairs ministry said Monday. The figure for single-seat con...
False alarm prompts rescue effort [News]
A caller to the police emergency number at 3:30 p.m. on Dec. 15 reported that “I heard child shouting ‘Help!’ near an overflow pool” at Kiyuna district of Ginowan City. About 30 of...
Baby boy dies month after nursery mishap [News]
Yaeyama police announced Dec. 14 that a 7-month-old baby boy, the second son of Mitsuaki Nakama and Masami Hoshiyama, who had been in care of an unauthorized nursery at Hirae, Ishi...
Man arrested for attempted voting fraud [News]
Naha police arrested an unemployed man, 26-yer-old Yoshikatsu Nakagawa, who professes to live in Kumoji district of Naha City, on a charge of violating the Public Offices Election ...
Construction worker dies in work accident [News]
A 62-year-old construction worker fell to his death at a work site in Maehara district of Ginowan City, Dec. 15. According to Ginowan Police, Norio Kurane had been working on a pla...
Miyajkojima man caught for illegal hunting [News]
Miyakojima police is pressing charges against a male 61-year-old registered architect in Miyakojima City. They accuse man of violating the Wildlife Conservation Law on Dec. 15 beca...
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