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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
Woman Navy petty officer arrested for DUI after Hwy 58 crash [News]
Okinawa City Police arrested a female U.S. Navy petty officer assigned to Kadena Air Base, Sunday, on suspicion of driving drunk after she crashed her car into two minicars injurin...
Okinawans’ income up, still lowest in nation [News]
The Cabinet Office of the Government of Japan has published its annual report on the prefectural accounts for the fiscal year 2013. The report indicates the average income of peopl...
Okinawa Police arrest four on narcotics charges [News]
Okinawa Prefectural Police Organized Crime Control Division arrested four persons on May 31st, including two civilian employees of U.S. military, on suspicion of violating the stim...
LDP open to SOFA changes [News]
In the aftermath of the recent murder of a 20-year-old girl by a former U.S. Marine, calls from Okinawa are getting stronger for a complete overhaul of the Status of Forces Agreeme...
Helicopter emergency medical service to re-locate to Urasoe [News]
Urasoe Sogo Hospital in Urasoe City announced May 30th that the helicopter emergency medical service (HEMS) base the hospital operates is moving to Minatogawa from its current loca...
Ishigaki aims at designation as International Dark Sky Reserve [News]
Ishigaki City aims to be designated as the first location in Japan with the World’s International Dark Sky Reserve Program of the International Dark Sky Association (IDA) in Arizon...
Teenage girl badly injured after crashing on moped [News]
An Urasoe City Police patrol car spotted a moped-type bike with a driver without a helmet early Sunday morning in the Takushi district of Urasoe, and started to give a chase. As so...
Sailor pleads guilty of rape of tourist in March [News]
A U.S. Navy Sailor pleaded guilty to raping a Japanese woman on a visit to Okinawa in a Naha hotel after he found her asleep in the hallway and took her to his hotel room in March,...
2017 new graduates face bright employment prospects [News]
Kyujin Okinawa Co., Ltd., the operator of a job recruitment website, Joonavi, reported on May 26th that according to responses to a survey among 62 companies that had placed job of...
Multilingual Contact Center answered to 7,211 inquiries in 2015 [News]
Okinawa Convention & Visitors Bureau (OCVB), the operator of the Multilingual Contact Center that provides information for inbound tourists from overseas in English, Chinese, a...
Fraudsters con two elderly women in Nago [News]
Two cases of a tax scam targeting elderly women occurred successively in Nago on May 18 and 20. According to Nago Police, in both cases the victims first received letters purported...
Japan’s fertility rate increases slightly, Okinawa still on top [News]
Japanese Ministry of Health, Labor and Welfare reported May 23rd that statistics 2015 indicate a slight upward trend of the Japan’s total fertility rate (TFR). The total fertility ...
Bodies of two women found in house in Ginowan [News]
Bodies of two women were discovered on the second floor of a house in Shimashi, Ginowan City, on May 20th. According to Ginowan Police, a neighbor called to report the discovery of...
Elderly man robbed at knifepoint at home [News]
Okinawa City Police are investigating a reported robbery that occurred in the Moromizato district of Okinawa City in the afternoon on May 20. The victim, a man in his 80’s, told po...
U.S Navy sailor arrested for DUI in Chatan [News]
Okinawa City Police arrested a U.S. Navy Petty Officer early Sunday morning, on suspicion of DUI in Miyagi, Chatan. According to Okinawa City Police, 28-year-old Petty Officer 3rd ...
Naha opens tsunami evacuation shelter in Matsuyama [News]
Naha City has opened a shelter for tsunami evacuation in the Matsuyama district of the city. The shelter is primarily for people who reside in the Matsuyama and Wakasa districts’ l...
Former Marine confesses to strangling missing woman [News]
According to Okinawa Prefectural Police investigators, the 32-year-old former U.S. Marine, who was arrested Thursday on suspicion of dumping the body of a 20-year-old Rina Shimabuk...
Multi-store shopping center to open at Furujima, Naha [News]
The redevelopment of the former Furujima public housing site in the Furujima district of Naha has started, and developers have made public their plan to build a multi-store shoppin...
600kg of stimulant drugs found on yacht in Naha [News]
The Japan Coast Guard and Okinawa Regional Customs Office confiscated about 600 kgs of stimulant drugs from a yacht in Naha port on May 17th. The Customs officials put the street v...
American civilian arrested in connection with missing Uruma woman [News]
The Okinawa Prefectural Police arrested a civilian working for the U.S. military, Kenneth Franklin Shinzato, in connection with the missing 20-year-old Rina Shimabukuro on Thursday...
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