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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
TripAdvisor names best 20 Japanese Castles [News]
TripAdvisor, the world’s largest travel review website, announced the results of voting by the site’s users for the best 20 castles in Japan in 2016. From Okinawa, Nakagusuku Castl...
Officials warn of bacterial risk in river activities [News]
As the long hot summer of Okinawa continues, the Prefecture Health and Longevity Division is calling for public’s attention to a risk of being infected by leptospirosis, a bacteria...
Chatan fire station beefs up high-rise rescue capability [News]
Chatan’s Nirai Fire Department has concluded a cooperative agreement with Kinko Jyuki, Okinawa’s largest heavy equipment leasing company, to secure the use of a crane truck with a ...
Part of Camp Hansen to be returned to Okinawa [News]
Officials at Okinawa Defense Bureau have reportedly informed Nago City that a 55-hectare parcel of city-owned land now belonging to Camp Hansen in Kouki, Nago City, would be return...
Coast Guard gets ¥67.4 billion to beef up Senkaku security [News]
The Japanese Government has appropriated in its second supplementary budget of fiscal 2016 a total of ¥67.4 billion to Japan Coast Guard. The money is earmarked to strengthen secur...
JA starts shipping earliest Satsuma Mikan oranges [News]
JA Okinawa shipped Tuesday the season’s first Satsuma Mikan oranges from the Einoushinkou Center in Nago City. The shipment was the earliest in all of Japan. Officials at JA say th...
Governor to hold regular press conference Thursday [News]
Governor Takeshi Onaga is having a regular press conference at the Prefectural Office tomorrow (Thu), the first in a year and 3 months. Onaga has held the regular press conference ...
New company to develop Urasoe monorail Station [News]
Urasoe City has established a holding company called Urasoe Smart City Infrastructure Development Co, Ltd. to advance development along the extension of the Okinawa Urban Monorail ...
Typhoon Lionrock takes unusual route to Okinawa [News]
This year has been a little extraordinary, as there has been no typhoon so far. However, the 10th typhoon of the season seems to be closing in, but from an unorthodox direction. Th...
Robber takes million at knifepoint in Itoman [News]
Itoman Police is hunting for a man who entered a café in Nishizaki late Thursday evening, just when the café was about to close, and threatening the sole worker at the café with a ...
U.S. airman arrested on suspicion of DUI [News]
A U.S. airman stationed on Kadena Air Base was arrested Shortly after midnight on Sunday on suspicion of driving under influence. According to Okinawa Prefectural Police, a police ...
Japanese Government to start repair work on MCAS Futenma [News]
The U.S. Government has long demanded that the Japanese government begins repair work on MCAS Futenma, where reportedly the runway and helicopter hangars are in bad shape. The U.S....
One dead, one in coma in weekend water accidents [News]
Two water-related accidents took place at northern Okinawa beaches over the weekend leaving one Korean tourist dead and a boy from Hyogo Prefecture in coma. A 32-year-old female to...
Miyako man arrested for attempted murder [News]
A local fisherman was arrested on suspicion of an attempted murder after he attacked another fisherman with a sickle at a meeting in Miyakojima City, Thursday. According to Miyako ...
Kinser military warehouses to be relocated to Chibana [News]
Okinawa City Mayor Sachio Kuwae has reportedly agreed to accept a plan to relocate the U.S. military warehouses on Camp Kinser to Kadena Ammunitions Storage Area in Chibana. Accord...
Nighttime traffic restriction to start for Kunigami forest road [News]
Kunigami Village is preparing to restrict motor vehicle traffic through a woodland road in the Yanbaru forest from sunset through sunrise starting Sep. 1st. The aim of the traffic ...
Okinawa City multipurpose sports hall construction starts [News]
The construction of a multipurpose sports hall on the site of the former outdoor swimming pool in the Koza Sports Park is starting this month. The new facility will have a total co...
U.S. Marine arrested on suspicion of DUI [News]
Naha Police arrested a 26-year-old U.S. Marine in Naha, early Wednesday morning, on suspicion of driving under influence. According to Naha Police, a police patrol stopped a car dr...
Caller claiming to be police fishes for bank info [News]
Suspicious calls from someone pretending to be an officer at the Okinawa Police Headquarters staff or Financial Services Agency staff were reported in three occasions in Naha and O...
Okinawa has had 2nd most tornadoes in Japan [News]
According to Japan Meteorological Agency, there has been 43 tornadoes in Okinawa Prefecture between 1991 and 2015, which is the second most in the nation next to Hokkaido’s 44. Oki...
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