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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
Man arrested for having rifle ammo round in bag [News]
Tomigusuku Police arrested a 44-year-old system engineer on Jan. 31st at Naha Airport, on suspicion of violating the Explosives Control Law. According to police, an inspector disco...
Woman dies in snorkeling accident off Sunabe coast [News]
An American woman who was snorkeling was found in cardiac and respiratory arrest about 400 meters offshore north of Sunabe coast in Chatan Sunday afternoon. The woman, identified a...
PFOS contamination found at Chatan water facility [News]
The Prefectural Enterprise Bureau announced that organic fluorine compound perfluorooctane sulfonate (PFOS) was discovered in higher concentration than any other location at Chatan...
Police ask public help to identity robbery suspect [News]
Okinawa Prefectural Police is asking help from the public to identify the culprit of a robbery of a Lawson convenience store that took place in Ojyana, Ginowan City, last year. The...
Couple in hospital after house fire in Ginowan [News]
A fire broke out in a two-story concrete house in Aragusuku, Ginowan City, about 3 in the morning on Jan. 25th that completely destroyed the second floor of the house. Firefighters...
Okinawa starts new talks with central government [News]
When the talks between Okinawa Prefecture and the central government on the dispute over building the replacement facility in Henoko for MCAS Futenma collapsed last September, both...
Bank employee gets boot for giving out irregular loans [News]
A male employee of the Bank of Okinawa Co. in his 30’s, who was in charge of the bank’s business transactions with several companies on the island, was terminated after he was foun...
Prefecture publishes baseball camp guidebook [News]
The Okinawa Prefectural Government office has printed 70,000 copies of a guidebook on the February professional baseball camps. The 36-page full color books will be given out free ...
Okinawa sets cold records across island Sunday [News]
Due to strong cold air mass flowing from Siberia over all of Japan including Okinawa, sleet was observed in Nago City and Kume Island, Sunday. This was the first time sleet has bee...
Noa Onaga leaves for U.S. for heart transplant [News]
Noa Onaga, one-year-old girl who suffers from severe dilated cardiomyopathy, left Kansai Airport to New York on Jan. 19th with her parents onboard a medical jet for a heart transpl...
Police gun goes off while he cleans it [News]
Okinawa Prefectural Police said that a 24-year-old male riot police officer’s gun went off by accident at the Prefectural Riot Police Unit Office in Ota, Uruma City, Friday evening...
Uruma man accused of attempted murder [News]
Uruma City Police arrested on Jan. 16th a 59-year-old Uruma City man on suspicion of attempted murder. According to police, the man stabbed a 55-year-old electrician in the back wi...
Woman sailor faces DUI, hit-and-run charges [News]
A car and a motorcycle collided at Kitamae intersection on Highway 58 Sunday morning. The car left the scene without stopping, but police found the car and driver about an hour lat...
Marijuana use in Okinawa increasing [News]
The number of arrests related to possession of marijuana among young people on the island is increasing. According to Okinawa Prefectural Police, the number of arrests of offenders...
17-year-old nabbed for snatching woman’s purse [News]
Ginowan Police arrested a 17-year-old unemployed boy without a permanent address, Jan. 12th, on suspicion of snatching a purse from a 71-year-old woman. According to police, the bo...
Disney parade tour to start from Tomigusuku [News]
Oriental Land Co., the manager of Tokyo Disney Resort, announced on Jan. 14th that Tokyo Disney Resort is organizing a parade tour covering 15 selected locations across the country...
Taxi driver arrested for Matsuyama hit and run [News]
A passerby found a 36-year-old man from Naha City lying down bleeding from his head on a street in Matsuyama, Naha City, early in the morning on Jan. 12th. The man was taken to a h...
Norovirus detected in Chatan school lunch worker [News]
Health officials discovered a member of the staff at Chatan Town School Lunch Center had been infected with norovirus. The center prepares the school lunches for four pre-schools, ...
Elderly man arrested for fatally assaulting woman [News]
Naha Police arrested a 74-year-old man on suspicion of fatally assaulting a 54-year-old woman on Jan. 12th. According to police, three people, including the man and the woman, had ...
Season’s first flu warning issued in Naha [News]
Naha City Healthcare Center has issued the first influenza warning of the winter on Jan. 13th. According to Naha City Board of Education, an elementary school class in Naha City wa...
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