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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
Two sailors arrested for allegedly raping woman [News]
Two U.S. sailors have been arrested in Okinawa on suspicion of raping a Japanese woman in her 20s. Okinawa Police are withholding many details for the moment, but say the rape took...
Former Senkaku owner wants ICJ to determine sovereignty [News]
As tensions escalate between China, Taiwan and Japan over ownership and sovereignty of the uninhabited Senkaku islets in the far southern region of Okinawa Prefecture, the former o...
Police bike, bicycle crash [News]
イruma Police announced that a 36-year-old police officer riding on his motorcycle crashed with a bicycle at a crossing in Uruma City at night on Oct. 6, and two junior high school ...
2012.10.12
Ospreys on Futenma flightline, ready to work [Military News]
The MV-22 Ospreys have only been on Okinawa less than two weeks, but already the flight operations coordinators are getting them ready for workouts on Okinawa, and on the mainland....
Ospreys already stir concerns over flight patterns [Military News]
The MV-22 Osprey is barely ready to begin operations from Futenma Marine Corps Air Station in Ginowan City, but already it’s raising new ire from citizens from Kochi to Okinawa ove...
Centuries-old tree guarding shrine destroyed by typhoon [CURRENT ISSUE News]
A 300-year-old Hernandiaceae tree guarding both sides of a shrine in Nago City has been destroyed by Typhoon Sanba, which hammered the city early September. The huge tree was snapp...
Doctor busted for playing pachinko during duty [News]
A 63-year-old doctor working at a Naha government operated children’s medical rehabilitation facility was busted for slipping out of his working place to play pachinko at a near-by...
Construction worker’s leg crushed in accident [News]
A 55-year-old construction worker was seriously injured when a concrete reinforcement of a breakwater collapsed and slid on his leg along the Highway 58 in Sate, Kunigami Village, ...
Duty-Free Shops could open in arrival areas soon [News]
International airports, including Narita and presumably Naha, could soon find themselves offering up duty free goods in international arrival areas. The Land, Infrastructure, Trans...
Kadena airman busted for DUI [News]
Kadena police arrested 28-year-old A1C Goa Terrence O’Quinn of Kadena AB, on charge of violating the Road Traffic Law driving drunk on Oct. 7. O’Quinn admitted to drinking a bottle...
2012.10.10
Japanese car sales dip as the Senkaku issue lingers [Business News]
Japanese automobile sales in China dipped sharply in China last month as the anti-Japan demonstrations over the Senkaku Islands swept across China. Sales by Fuji Heavy Industries c...
Vietnam disturbed over Japan’s island disputes [News Politics]
Japan’s continuing clashes with China, Taiwan and South Korea over islands it claims has now raised concerns from Vietnam. At the ASEAN Maritime Forum in Manila, Vietnam has expres...
2012.10.10
Last ‘Elephant Cage’ antennas being abandoned at Misawa AB [News]
Five years after the Elephant Cage antennas array at Yomitan in Okinawa were shut down and destroyed, plans after been announced to scrap its twin at Misawa Air Base in northern Ja...
2012.10.10
JAL now extending its Japan-China flight cuts [Business News]
Temporary flight cuts now in effect between Japan and China by Japan Air Lines will be extended. Japan Air Lines says it will extend the cuts in service because it’s seeing no uptu...
2012.10.07
Last three Ospreys arrive at Futenma [Military News]
The first squadron of twelve MV-22 Osprey are now all in their home base of MCAS Futenma as the last three flew in from Iwakuni on Saturday. The aircraft landed at the Okinawa base...
Japan wants to use PR in Senkakus brouhaha [News]
With both China and Taiwan angry with Japan over its claiming sovereignty over the Senkaku islands, Japan’s turning to public relations in seeking international support. Foreign Mi...
Okinawa Assembly demands Osprey pullout [News Politics]
The Okinawa Prefectural Assembly has unanimously adopted a resolution demanding the pullout of the controversial MV-22 Osprey aircraft now deployed at Futenma Marine Corps Air Sta...
Remaining three Ospreys to come to Okinawa within weeks [Military News]
The U.S. Marine Corps says that the three MV-22 Osprey aircraft still in Iwakuni will move to MCAS Futenma, their permanent home in Okinawa, over the next few weeks. The first six ...
2012.10.05
Noda chooses Makiko Tanaka in his Cabinet reshuffle [News]
Prime Minister Yoshihiko Noda has opted for a Beijing-friendly woman in his Cabinet as he shuffles people around in hopes of buoying his shaky public persona. Although he picked an...
Osprey foes block MCAS Futenma gates [News]
Okinawa residents wasted no time mobilizing supporters to oppose the arrival of the MV-22 tilt-rotor Osprey aircraft, mounting a series of blockades around all three gates to Futen...
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