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Henoko seabed survey on hold for month [News]
The fight between the central government and Okinawa Prefectural government over the landfill preparation work for the Furenma replacement f...Read More
2014: Guard changes, but Futenma remains… [News]
For the third year in a row, the plans to move MCAS Futenma to a new base in Henoko, demands to move it out of the prefecture, and oppositio...Read More
Futenma, Senkakus provide most memorable… [News]
By Bill Charles If Futenma Marine Corps Air Station didn’t exist, and if China didn’t have its eye on the Senkaku Islands in southwestern Ok...Read More
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...
Violent anti-Japan protests sweep across China [News]
Tens of thousands of Chinese have been staging rallies across their country since the weekend, protesting Japan’s nationalization of the disputed Senkaku Islands in Okinawa Prefect...
Man’s body found floating in Aja River [News]
Urasoe City Police are investigating the discovery of a body floating in the Aja River in the city’s Inanse district as possibly an accident or a crime. The body was spotted by a r...
Bicycle-motorbike crash results in head injury [News]
A bicycle ridden by a 68-year-old male restaurant worker and a motorcycle driven by a 25-year-old unemployed man collided on a Naha City street at 3:30 p.m., seriously injuring the...
Prefectural Police stage drunk driving crack down [News]
Nearly 250 Okinawa Prefectural Police officers were involved in an “Okinawa Prefectural Simultaneous Drunk Driving Crack Down” across all districts of the island, nabbing not only ...
Fire partially destroys a Haebaru office building [News]
A bolt of lightning is being thought to be the cause of a fire that struck a prefab office building in Haebru Town’s Oona district about 8:20 a.m. Sunday as Typhoon Sanba was movin...
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