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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
Mystery mass death of fish in Uruma river [News]
A large number of small striped mullet-like fish, called ‘bora’ in Japanese, was found dead in a river in Kawata, Uruma City, Monday. The Prefectural Chubu Regional Welfare and Pub...
Renowned novelist arrested protesting off Henoko [News]
A novelist and winner of the prestigious Akutagawa literary prize Shun Medoruma, was arrested Friday in Henoko, after he paddled his canoe into the restricted area off the coast of...
OCVB publishes Okinawa guidebook for Muslims [News]
Okinawa Prefectural Government and Okinawa Convention & Visitors Bureau, OCVB, have published a guidebook for Muslim tourists. 7,000 copies of the guidebook will be released an...
Okinawa continues worst in nation in DUI fatalities [News]
The Okinawa Prefectural Police announced that the rate of traffic accidents resulting in injury or death in Okinawa related to DUI last year was the worst in the nation for the 26t...
U.S. Navy sailor indicted for raping tourist [News]
The Naha District Public Prosecutors Office indicted U.S. Navy sailor Justin Castellanos on Friday. He had been arrested Mar. 13th after he allegedly raped a Japanese tourist from ...
Nago civil servant nabbed for sex with minor [News]
Yonabaru Police on arrested 32-year-old Nago City government worker Wednesday on suspicion of engaging in sexual relationship with an underage girl. According to police, Hideki Yoh...
Drifter arrested for slashing pachinko employee’s neck [News]
Naha Police arrested a 65-year-old unemployed homeless man Tuesday evening on suspicion of attempted murder. According to police, the man was arrested on spot in a pachinko parlor ...
Mixed martial arts champ opens day care service [News]
Mitsuhisa Sunabe, an Okinawan mixed martial arts champion opened Mar. 1st an after school day care service for children with physical challenges. The facility, named CrossLine Day ...
MS Queen Elizabeth makes port call to Naha [News]
One of most recognizable names among world’s cruise ships is without doubt MS Queen Elizabeth. The 99,000-ton and 2081-passenger-capacity Cunard cruise liner moored at Naha Port fo...
Direct flights begin between Naha and Iwakuni [News]
All Nippon Airways, ANA, has opened a new route between Naha and Iwakuni, a city in Yamaguchi Prefecture. The inaugural flight on the daily round trip took place Sunday, Mar. 27th....
Park Avenue to change into two-way street [News]
Officials in Okinawa City say Chuo Park Avenue will become a two-way street by 2020 to improve the flow of traffic in the area. The change is also expected to help in the area re-v...
Singer Natchy invited to perform in U.S. event [News]
Okinawan singer Natchy has received an invitation to perform at the International Festival of Language & Culture (INTFLC) scheduled to be held in the second half of April in Wa...
U.S. Navy sailor admits to raping tourist [News]
Police investigators say that the U.S. Navy sailor under arrest on suspicion of raping a tourist from Fukuoka has admitted to the charge under questioning. Naha Police arrested 24-...
Graduation ceremonies at prefecture universities held [News]
The graduation ceremony of the University of the Ryukyus took place at Okinawa Convention Center in Ginowan City on Mar. 18th. 1,806 students graduated from the university in fisca...
Body of missing seaman found at Gushikawa coast [News]
Nakagusuku Coast Guard officials announced that the body of a 19-year-old oil tanker crew member, who had been missing since Mar. 10th, was found by a seawall south of Gushikawa Th...
2,500 protest in Henoko against rape of tourist [News]
According to organizers, about 2,500 people gathered Monday in front of the main gate of Camp Schwab in Henoko to protest the alleged rape of a female tourist in Naha. A U.S. sailo...
Influenza death rate in Okinawa highest in Japan [News]
Yoshihiro Takayama, a doctor specializing in infectious diseases at the Okinawa Prefectural Chubu Hospital reported Mar. 17th that the death rate of influenza in Okinawa is the hig...
Prefecture sets up IT-based tourist guidebook [News]
The Prefecture Urban Planning and Monorail Division has made a multilingual combination of a guidebook, website and Internet application to encourage foreign visitors to take advan...
Japan’s earliest picking of tealeaves begins in Nago [News]
Picking of ‘Ichibancha’, the first tea leaves of the season, started at a tea plantation in Isagawa, Nago City, in the morning of Mar. 15th. The harvest is the earliest in the coun...
U.S. Navy sailor arrested for raping tourist in Naha [News]
Naha Police arrested a U.S. Navy sailor, Sunday, on suspicion of raping a female tourist in a hotel in Naha. According to police, 24-year-old seaman Justin Castellanos from Camp Sc...
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