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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
Tourist driver fatally hits pedestrian [News]
A 33-year-old female visitor from Fukuoka driving a rental car hit an unemployed man crossing Hwy 58 in Gusukuma, Urasoe City in the evening of Dec. 1. Investigators say 78-year-ol...
Falling apartment ceiling injures 2-year-old boy [News]
A section of the concrete ceiling on the third floor of an apartment building in Sobe, Naha came loose, and fell on a 2-year-old boy who was in the room at the time. The boy suffer...
Drunk dependent teen held for property damage [News]
Okinawa Police arrested a 19-year-old dependent son of a civilian employee of Kadena Air Base living in Okinawa City, on a charge of damaging property on Dec. 2. Police say the tee...
Woman held on hit-and-run charges [News]
Yonabaru Police arrested a 33-year-old female company employee in Yonabaru district of Yonabaru Town on suspicion of causing a hit-and-run accident. Police say Nagisa Miyagi is hel...
U.S. Marine cyclist injured when hit by motorcycle [News]
A motorcycle turning right toward Uruma City on Highway 329 crashed into a bicycle being ridden by a U.S. Marine, then fled the scene. The 35-year-old Marine fell, suffering facial...
Defense Ministry says MV-22 Ospreys staying on course [News]
The MV-22 helicopters based at Futenma Marine Corps Air Station are mostly sticking to flight paths designated by Japan and the United States. That’s the word from the Japanese Def...
Aeon Town opens in Nanjo City location [News]
Shoppers have a new Aeon center to patronize, with the opening this past week of the Aeon Town Nanjo Ozato Shopping Center. The new shopping center, with 34 tenants lined up around...
Okinawa asked to keep eye out for American Deserter [News]
The Okinawa Prefectural Government said it has been informed that a U.S. serviceman deserted from his unit earlier this month. Nov. 9. The prefecture said it received the notice v...
Complaints mount over Aja River improvements project [News]
The ¥83 million targeted to improve the Shuri district of Naha City by improving the Aja River area has become a nightmare for Okinawa Prefecture as complaints continue to pour in ...
U.S. forces dealt new protest over marine’s alleged trespass [News]
The Japanese government has lodged a protest with the United States over an alleged trespassing incident committed by a service member in Okinawa, asking that military discipline b...
Breaking & entering lands man in jail cell [News]
A 41-year-old Naha City man is learning crime doesn’t pay, after being arrested following his breaking into a building and stealing about ¥2.5 million. Naha Police arrested Sadayuk...
GSDF Sergeant Major arrested on charge of becoming violent [News]
A 33-year-old Sergeant Major with the Japan Ground Self Defense Force base at Camp Naha has been arrested on violence charges after assaulting a woman. Kazuhiro Fujita is denying t...
Drugs violation lands Ginowan woman in jail [News]
Possession and use of a stimulant in violation of Japan’s Stimulants Control Law has put a 27-year-old woman behind bars. Nanae Jajiki, an unemployed woman, was arrested by Ginowan...
Woman arrested after trying to kill husband [News]
A 79-year-old Yonabaru woman is in police custody on attempted murder charges after she beat her husband with the aluminum handle of a mop. The woman told Yonabaru Police she had e...
Ship crewman dies in accident [News]
A cargo ship called the 11th Coast Guard Headquarters at 1:20 p.m. on Nov. 18, reporting that a member of its crew, Noritaka Yaduka, was unconscious as a result of an accident onbo...
Civilian contractor arrested for having knife [News]
Ishikawa police arrested a self-employed male civilian contractor of the military living Kin district of Kin Town, 42-year-old Steven Aaron Sepian, Nov. 17, on a charge of violatin...
City worker found dead floating in ocean in Miyako [News]
Shipping company staff reported to police and fire department that “There’s a man floating in the ocean” at Sarahama Port in Irabu Island in Miyako-jima City in the morning of Nov....
Ginoza through ages on exhibition [News]
An exhibition at Ginoza Village Art Museum called “The history of Ginoza village’s mountain and people” is open to the public through Dec. 9. The exhibition shows that nature chara...
Restaurant robbery at Hiyane [News]
A man pointed a knife at a male staff at a restaurant in Hiyane district of Okinawa City 5 a.m., and threatened him saying “I will stab you if you don’t give me all the money in th...
Junior high school student nabbed for car theft [News]
Ginowan Police arrested a 14-year-old junior high school boy on a charge of theft on Nov. 17. Police say that the boy stole a mini-car from a factory in Onaha district of Nishihara...
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