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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
Pentagon calls airman’s home intrusion “Extremely Regrettable” [News]
The U.S. Department of Defense has expressed deep regret over the alleged break-in and assault by a serviceman in Japan’s Okinawa Prefecture, saying “This reported in...
14-year-old arrested for assault [News]
Ginowan Police arrested a 14-year-old junior high school boy on a charge of an assault resulting in injury, Nov. 3, because the boy had attacked violently his junior of the same sc...
Chinese surveillance ship intrudes near Senkakus [News]
For a tenth time since September, a Chinese surveillance ship has ventured into Japanese territorial waters in southern Okinawa, near the disputed Senkaku Islands. The Japan Coast ...
Latest military incident draws renewed cries for SOFA revision [News]
An incident involving a drunk airman breaking into a third-story apartment and hitting a teenager is the latest anti-military action that has triggered irritation and anger by Okin...
Golden Week style extended fall holidays part of DPJ concept [News]
A majority of people would like to see a stretch of five consecutive national holidays created in autumn, and the idea’s now being studied by the Democratic Party of Japan as a mea...
2012.11.09
U.S. OKs using military facilities for evacuation [News]
The city of Ginowan and Chatan Town have signed a pact with the U.S. military that allows local citizens to enter the Futenma Marine Corps Air Station and other U.S. military facil...
Oldest bones discovered [News]
A set of the oldest bones ever found in this island prefecture were recently discovered in Tamagusuku. Okinawa Prefecture Museum and Art Museum has announced that stone works and a...
2012.11.09
Dalai Lama makes second Okinawa visit Nov. 11 [News]
The venerable Dalai Lama will make a one day visit to Okinawa Sunday to deliver a lecture at the Budokan and to pray for the war dead at Memorial Peace Park. The Okinawa visit will...
Elderly woman’s purse snatched in Naha [News]
A man closing in from behind snatched the handbag of a 72-year-old woman containing ¥20,000 in cash, on a road in Matsukawa, Naha City in the evening of Nov. 2. The woman was not i...
Tourist goes missing in Nago; feared drowned [News]
A call to the police emergency number from the owner of a guest house in Kayo district of Nago City on Oct. 28 reported “one of our guests is missing.” According to Nago Police, a ...
Hit-and-run results in minor injury to boy [News]
A mini-car driven by a 54-year-old man hit a nine-year-old elementary school boy who was playing on the road at Miyagi, Urasoe City on Oct. 27, and escaped. The boy fell down and w...
Body found at Itoman shore [News]
A man’s body was found at the seashore on the south side of Mabuni Hill Park in Itoman City on Oct. 25. According to Itoman Police, the as of yet unidentified man seems to have bee...
Iriomote car accident leaves man seriously injured [News]
A light truck hit a 49-year-old construction worker walking on a road on Iriomote Island, Oct. 26. The victim was taken by a helicopter to a hospital in Ishigaki City, where he st...
Defense Minister blasts Friday assault incident [News]
Allegations of a U.S. airman breaking into a Yomitan apartment less than a kilometer from Kadena Air Base in the Furugen district, and then beating up a 13-year-old boy early Frida...
Playing youngster killed in car crash [News]
A 6-year-old kindergarten student playing with friends on a city road in Tsuhako, Sashiki district of Nanjo City was killed when a car driven by a 65-year-old self-employment woman...
Missing U.S. military boat ramp recovered [News]
A U.S. military boat ramp, part of a pier that broke loose from its moorings and drifted to the ocean from White Beach two weeks ago has been recovered in southern Okinawa Prefectu...
Chinese captain detained over unauthorized fishing [News]
The Japanese Fisheries Agency has ratcheted up tensions with China with its announcement it has arrested the captain of a Chinese fishing boat on suspicion he was engaged in unauth...
Chinese ships exploring Senkaku waters ignore ‘stay clear’ warnings [News]
The Chinese maritime surveillance ships are becoming almost commonplace in the territorial waters around the Senkaku Islands, and they’re becoming almost belligerent as they ignore...
Defense Minister says SDF maybe equipped with MV-22 Ospreys [News]
American made MV-22 Ospreys may one day be flying over the skies of not only Okinawa, but mainland Japan as well, and there by Japanese Air Self Defense Forces. Defense Minister Sa...
16-year-old heists ¥14 million in gold and jewelry from apartment [News]
An Okinawa City teenager is under arrest, charged with stealing precious metals, including rings and necklaces, valued at more than ¥14 million from an apartment building. The 16-y...
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