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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
2012.10.05
Season’s strongest typhoon bashes Okinawa [CURRENT ISSUE News]
Typhoon Jelawat did last weekend what Samba and Bolaven couldn’t; it slammed into Okinawa Prefecture from one end to the other, leaving one man dead, dozens injured and damages in ...
3 more Osprey planes deployed to Okinawa [News]
Three more MV-22 Osprey tilt-rotor transport planes have arrived at the Futenma Marine Corps Air Station on Okinawa. The three, which flew in from the Marines’ Iwakuni base i...
2012.10.02
MV-22B Ospreys arrive at MCAS Futenma [News]
Six MV-22B Osprey aircraft flew from Marine Corps Air Station Iwakuni and arrived at MCAS Futenma on Monday, the first element of two squadrons to be based on Okinawa. Squadron air...
2012.10.02
Osprey foes block Futenma Marine Corps Air Station 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...
Typhoon Jelawat messes up weekend events. [News]
Second super typhoon in two weeks, and the third to hit Okinawa in a month is currently just south of the island and still nearing, but already it has messed up practically all eve...
Army PFC injured when his driving buddy crashes car [News]
A 20-year-old Army Private First Class stationed at Kadena Air Base suffered serious injuries when his driving partner crashed his car into a guardrail on Highway 58 in Onna Villag...
Kadena airman dies in motorcycle crash [News]
A 33-year-old airman is dead after losing control of his motorcycle driving Highway 329 and crashed into a roadside tree. Rashard Jackson was driving in the Higashi Onna district o...
Top diplomat dispatched to China [News]
Japan has sent a top diplomat, Vice Foreign Minister Chikao Kawai, to China to seek ways to mend bilateral ties that have been frayed by the dispute over theSenkaku Islands in the ...
Man arrested for taking liberties with teenager [News]
A part-time worker in Tomigusuku City’s Takayasu district is under arrest, charged with violation of Okinawa Prefecture’s Youth Protection Ordinances. The 36-year-old man, Kei Hira...
59 new Americans now on Okinawa [News]
A total of 59 service members and spouses stationed on Okinawa are now American citizens, having taken their Oath of Allegiance at a Wednesday ceremony at the MCAS Futenma Theater....
Highway cleaner injured in hit-and-run accident [News]
Urasoe City Police have a search in progress for a red automobile they believe was involved in a hit-and-run accident in the city’s Nishihara district at 7:30 a.m. last Saturday. T...
Noda to reshuffle cabinet before going to New York [News]
A Cabinet shuffle is in the works as Prime Minister Yoshihiko Noda makes adjustments ahead of an .anticipated lower house election later this year. Noda, who’s been reelected presi...
Osprey operations outside Okinawa to be studied [News]
Even as test flights of the MV-22 Osprey are taking place at Iwakuni Marine Corps Air Station, the Japanese and U.S. governments will study a transfer of some of planned operations...
Motorist punches newspaper delivery woman in the face [News]
An Okinawa Times newspaper delivery woman making her early morning rounds found a man who’d stopped at the Okinawa Times Chubu Branch parking lot, where he’d broken a mini-car wind...
Duo on motorscooter grabs a lady’s purse [News]
A woman walking home from her bank in the Akamine district of Naha City Sunday was stunned when two men stole her purse. The 22-year-old woman told police the two men riding a blac...
Rescue effort fails to save tourist from drowning [News]
A call to the 11th Regional Coast Guard headquarters through a fire station near Ginoza Fishing Port came in Saturday about 1:50 p.m that a man had been pulled from the water, nea...
Taiwan, Japan Coast Guards duel with water cannons [News]
Coast guard vessels from Japan and Taiwan have been duel with water cannons this week after dozens of Taiwanese boats escorted by patrol ships sailed into waters around Tokyo-contr...
Chinese vessels again enter waters near Senkakus [News]
Only a day after China called off 40th anniversary celebrations with Japan because of the dispute over sovereignty over the Senkaku Islands, three Chinese ships have again entered ...
GSDF, U.S. Marines conduct island drill in Guam [News]
U.S. Marines and Japan’s Ground Self Defense Force have successfully conducted a training mission intended to bolster their abilities to defend remote islands. Te exercise on Guam,...
LDP presidential campaign officially a five-horse race [News]
There’s plenty of tough talk on the Liberal Democratic Party’s campaign trail, where five men are vying for the job of running the party and leading the LDP back to power. Former P...
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