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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
DUI suspect locks himself in house, arrested after warrant [News]
The Prefectural Police Traffic Mobile Unit arrested a 22-year-old male college student from Minami-Uebaru, Nakagusuku Village, Dec. 16th, on suspicion of drinking and driving. The ...
Two abandoned boats burn down at Tomari Port [News]
A fire broke out at Tomari Fishing Port in Minato-machi, Naha City, about 14:53 on Dec. 17th that destroyed two abandoned boats docked on the shore. No one was injured in the fire....
Yomitan Mayor accepts relocation of Kinser functions to Torii [News]
Denjitsu Ishimine, the Mayor of Yomitan Village, agreed in a regular meeting of the village assembly on Dec. 16th to the relocation of part of functions of Camp Kinser to Torii Sta...
Fire destroys house, one resident dead [News]
A fire broke out in a concrete house in Takahara, Okinawa City, in the afternoon of Dec. 16th. After the fire, firefighters found a body a female believed to be one of the resident...
Fukushima elephants to spend second winter on Okinawa [News]
Two Asian elephants, 28-year-old Tonsai and 19-year-old Boonthong, came to Okinawa Kodomo-no-Kuni Zoo from Tohoku Safari Park in Fukushima Prefecture for the winter, and were intro...
First students take entrance exams to Kaiho and Kyuyo junior high schools [News]
The first joint entrance examination to the prefectural public junior high schools, ‘Kaiho Junior High School’ and ‘Kyuyo Junior High School,’ took place in Haebaru Town and Okinaw...
Arrests for drug offenses on rise [News]
As of the end of November, 146 people have been arrested in Okinawa Prefecture during 2015 on offenses related to drugs and illegal substances, according to Okinawa Prefectural Pol...
U.S. military, civilian DUIs up 40% in year [News]
According to officials at the Okinawa Prefectural Police Traffic Enforcement Division, the number of DUI arrests of U.S. military personnel and civilians has increased about 40% in...
Fisherman missing off Ishigaki, empty boat found [News]
Ishigaki Coast Guard received an emergency call from a family member of a male fishing boat owner, Sunday morning, reporting that the man has not returned from a fishing trip to th...
Kadena civilian nabbed on suspicion of DUI in Naha [News]
Naha City Police arrested a civilian employee of Kadena Air Base, Sunday, on suspicion of drinking and driving in Naha. According to Naha Police, a police patrol stopped 33-year-ol...
Naha construction worker nabbed for hit-and-run [News]
Naha City Police arrested a 35-year-old construction worker, Naoya Shinzato from Makabi, Naha City, on Dec. 10th, on suspicion of hit-and-run. The man is suspected of hitting a 15-...
Laser beams pointed also at Kadena aircraft [News]
Officials at Kadena Air Base say there have been three cases of laser beams directed at U.S. military aircraft flying near the base. U.S. Marine Corps officials reported similar in...
Woman plunges mini car into Ryutan Pond [News]
A mini car broke through a fence and plunged into the Ryutan Pond next to Shuri Castle in Shuri, Naha City, Wednesday. A 23-year-old woman from Naha City driving the mini car manag...
Sakima floats idea of luring Disney to Ginowan [News]
Ginowan City Mayor Atsushi Sakima met with Chief Cabinet Secretary Yoshihide Suga Dec. 8th at the office of the Prime Minister, and called for the government support and preferenti...
Okinawa DUI cases show increase [News]
The number of DUI arrests in Okinawa is increasing. According to Prefectural Police, there have been 40 fatal accidents in the prefecture in 2015 as of Dec. 9th and eleven of them ...
Ginowan man nabbed for aiming laser at Marine helo [News]
Okinawa Prefectural Police arrested a local businessman Monday, on suspicion of aiming a laser beam at a U.S. military aircraft flying near MCAS Futenma in July. Police arrested 56...
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NEXCO narrows express lanes between Ginoza and Kyoda [News]
Expressway traffic between Ginoza and Kyoda interchanges becomes potentially snarled for a nearly three-month period. A part of the Okinawa Expressway between #9 Ginoza and #10 Ky...
Man dies in police custody; sudden illness suspected [News]
A 58-year-old unemployed man with no fixed address died in Naha Police custody on Friday. According Naha police, the man had been arrested on suspicion of a robbery attempt on Dec....
58 suffer food poisoning from bento lunch [News]
The Okinawa Prefecture Community Health Division announced Friday that 58 people who ate bento (lunch box) made on Nov. 24th at JA Okinawa A-COOP Mall in Nago had shown symptoms of...
Ojyana Lawson robbed at knife-point [News]
A robber entered a Lawson convenience store in Ojyana, Ginowan City, Friday afternoon, and threatened the female sole clerk in the store with a knife demanding money. He grabbed ab...
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