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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
100 days to Worldwide Uchinanchu Festival [News]
It’s only 100 more days to go to the 6th Worldwide Uchinanchu Festival! The festival runs from Oct. 27th to 30th, 2016, and including the eve of its official opening day, a variety...
Airport passageway opens [News]
A passageway connecting international and domestic terminals at Naha Airport is open, giving passengers who switch flights between international and domestic flights a sheltered an...
Female scuba diver dies near Manzamo [News]
A female tourist from Tokyo died of an apparent cardiac arrest on a shore near Manzamo, Onna Village, about noon on Saturday. According to the Japan Coast Guard in Naha, the woman,...
Takae helipad construction to resume this month [News]
The central government plans to resume construction of helipads in Takae in the northern Okinawa later this month despite local protests that have been going on for almost 10 years...
Government plans to take Henoko fight again to court [News]
The Government of Japan informed Okinawa Prefecture, Thursday, of its intention to file a lawsuit against the prefecture over Okinawa Governor Takeshi Onaga’s cancellation of the l...
Sailor gets 30 months for hotel rape [News]
Naha District Court on Friday sentenced a U.S. Navy sailor to 30 months in prison for a rape of a sleeping woman in a Naha hotel in March. The sailor, 24-year-old Justin Castellano...
Okinawa deemed fourth in bad driving etiquette [News]
Okinawa drivers have been branded as having the fourth worst driving habits in the nation based on an Internet questionnaire survey by Japan Automobile Federation (JAF). The survey...
H.I.S. Okinawa Beach Park opens [News]
H.I.S., one of the top travel agencies in Japan, opened “H.I.S. Okinawa Beach Park 2016” that boasts Okinawa’s longest water slide at Toyosaki Churasan Beach in Tomigusuku. The bea...
Locally born residents outnumber immigrants [News]
According to a research by Tokyo Shoko Research, Ltd. (TSR), made public on Tuesday, the ratio of locally born residents in Okinawa compared to those who moved to the prefecture fr...
OIST’s marine science laboratory opens [News]
Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology Graduate University (OIST) has opened “OIST Marine Science Station,” a marine science laboratory at Seragaki Fishing Port in Onna Villag...
Multipurpose arena plan for Okinawa City unveiled [News]
Okinawa City Mayor Sachiyo Kuwae unveiled Tuesday a master plan for a new multipurpose arena in the city. The planned construction site for the arena was unveiled earlier this year...
Subsidized package tours offered to remote islands [News]
Okinawa Prefecture is readying for the start of a trial project featuring subsidized package tours to 16 remote islands in the prefecture. The tours are offered to 3,000 successful...
Six First Flying pilots resign, sue company over safety [News]
Six pilots of Osaka-based First Flying Co., Ltd. have reportedly resigned and filed a lawsuit against their former employer after an accident last August at Aguni Island airport, i...
Higashi man arrested for trying to kill mother [News]
Nago Police arrested a 53-year-old man on Tuesday on suspicion of attempting to kill his 83-year-old mother. According to Nago Police, Seijun Takasato, a security guard from Higash...
Okinawa Washington Office head encountering visa problems [News]
According to several press reports, the head of Okinawa Prefecture’s office in Washington has yet to obtain the working visa needed for political activities. Hideo Henzan, a former...
Express bus to start running Naha-Koza route in fall [News]
Okinawa Prefecture Traffic Department announced that it would start a trial service of an express bus between Naha and Koza in Okinawa City. The new express line is scheduled to st...
Worker dies at Kadena Air Base demolition site [News]
A construction worker died in a demolition work site accident on Kadena Air Base on Friday. According to Okinawa City Police, Masaki Miyazato, a construction worker from Naha City ...
Japanese man arrested for attack on American civilian [News]
Okinawa police arrested a 43-year-old man living in Misato, Okinawa City on suspicion of assaulting a male civilian worker of the U.S. military in the evening of July 8 in Chuo, Ok...
Rape-murder suspect wants trial moved to Tokyo [News]
Toshimitsu Takaesu, the lawyer for Kenneth Franklin Shinzato, who is being held on suspicion of the rape and murder of a 20-year-old Okinawan girl in May, has submitted a written r...
Airman arrested on suspicion of DUI [News]
Okinawa City Police arrested a 27-year-old U.S. Air Force technical sergeant on suspicion of driving under influence in Mihama, Chatan Town early Monday morning. According to polic...
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