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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
Ogimi Village Office worker nabbed for DUI [News]
Nago Police arrested 25-year-old Daichi Yamashiro, an Ogimi Village Office worker Monday, on suspicion of causing a traffic accident while driving under influence of alcohol. Accor...
Two Okinawa schools win marching competition [News]
The 44th National Marching Band Competition was held on Dec. 17th & 18th at Saitama Super Arena. The Music Club of Tokeshi Elementary School in Yomitan won the gold medal in th...
Elderly man crossing street killed on Hwy 58 in Onna [News]
An elderly man crossing Highway 58 at Nakadomari, Onna Village, was killed Saturday evening when he was hit by a car. According to Ishikawa Police, 79-year-old Kazunobu Maeda, a ta...
Monument to Basil Hall Ryukyu visit erected in Tomari [News]
A monument to mark the bicentennial anniversary of the visit to the Ryukyus by Basil Hall, a 19th century British naval officer, was unveiled in a ceremony in Tomari, Naha City, Fr...
Okinawa Zoo to get white lion next spring [News]
The president of Tohoku Safari Park visited the Okinawa City Office Friday, to announce that the Safari Park was planning to send a white lion to Okinawa Zoo a.k.a. Okinawa Kodomo-...
ALT arrested on suspicion of robbery [News]
Naha Police arrested a foreign national assistant language teacher (ALT) on suspicion of robbery. According to Naha Police, 23-year-old Henry Charles Enarson was arrested Saturday ...
BEGIN compose theme songs for new Ishigaki tourist spots [News]
Ishigaki City announced Friday a new project named “Shimanchu nu takara sagashi” (Islanders’ treasure hunt), involving 24 new tourist spots. The participation-type project is aimed...
First Osprey accident in Okinawa; crashes on reef in Nago [News]
A U.S. Marine Corp’s MV-22 Osprey tilt-rotor aircraft based on MCAS Futenma crash-landed off the east coast of Nago Tuesday evening. The aircraft had a crew of five onboard and all...
Elderly man dies after knocked down by bus [News]
An elderly man died after being knocked down by a bus while trying to cross a street in Tomari, Naha City, Monday evening. According to Naha Police, 93-year-old Shigeru Miyasato wa...
Okinawa birth rate Japan’s highest 42 years in row [News]
Okinawa Prefecture Public Health and Medical Policy Division made public the demographic statistics in Okinawa on fiscal 2016 on Monday. Regarding the rate of births per 1,000 in r...
Golf caddie saves player’s life by using AED [News]
A golf caddie saved a player who suffered a heart attack while playing. Satomi Honda, a 23-year-old caddie, saved the player’s life after he suffered a cardiac arrest and fell down...
Onaga accepts military port move to Urasoe [News]
Okinawa Governor Takeshi Onaga stated at a Prefectural regular November assembly meeting Friday that he would accept the move of the U.S. Military Port facility in Naha to Urasoe. ...
4-car crash leaves 7-year-old girl dead [News]
A 28-year-old driver attempting to overtake two cars in front of him caused a 4-car crash that left a 7-year-old girl dead Sunday. According to Ginowan Police, the accident happene...
More foreign students submit refugee status applications [News]
A total of 7,586 foreign people submitted an application for refugee status in Japan in fiscal 2015, which is 8 times more than a decade ago. Among them, 1,413 were students who ap...
“Hometown Tax” nets ¥84.88 million for Okinawa [News]
Okinawa Prefecture Tax Affairs Section announced that the total amount of so called “Hometown tax” paid to the prefecture since Governor Takeshi Onaga took office a year and 10 mon...
570,000 to take center test for university admissions [News]
The National Center for University Admissions announced Wednesday that 575,966 students will take the annual center test for university admissions on Jan. 14 and 15. That is 12,198...
Firefighter arrested on suspicion of DUI [News]
Naha Police arrested a man who works as a firefighter at the Western Okinawa Fire Department headquarters on suspicion of DUI, Monday. According to police, 51-year-old Hayashi Shim...
Sunday was warmest day ever in December in Naha [News]
The temperature in Naha rose to 28.2 degrees Celsius at 13:38 on Sunday, Dec. 4th, which is the highest ever recorded in December in Naha. The previous record was from 1914, 102 ye...
Okinawa autumn, ocean warmest on record [News]
The Okinawa Meteorological Observatory announced Thursday that the average temperature in the prefecture this fall from September to November rose to 26.4 degrees centigrade that i...
60% of remote islands’ high school grads want to return [News]
According to an awareness survey by Okinawa General Bureau, about 60% of high school students now in the 3rd grade, who are planning to leave their homes on the remote islands of t...
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