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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
Leader of group arrested for trespassing into Schwab [News]
Hiroji Yamashiro, the chairman of the Okinawa Heiwa Undou Center (Okinawa Peace Movement Center), a group opposing construction work at Henoko, was arrested on suspicion of trespas...
Man arrested for trespassing into welfare facility [News]
Okinawa City Police arrested Dec. 2nd a U.S. military civilian employee working on Kadena Air Base on suspicion of unlawful entry. According to Okinawa City Police, the 32-year-old...
Miyako man arrested for possession of illegal plants [News]
Miyakojima City Police arrested a 54-year-old man working at National Miyako Nanseien Sanatorium, Wednesday, on suspicion of possessing pieces of dried plants that included illegal...
Luggage from Incheon to Naha ends up in Narita [News]
Passengers on Korean LLC Jeju Air from Incheon International Airport in Seoul to Naha on Nov. 31st were in for not so pleasant surprise when they discovered that the luggage that h...
Norovirus infects visiting high school students [News]
The Okinawa Prefecture Community Health Division announced Wednesday that six of high school students visiting Okinawa on a school trip had developed a food poisoning caused by nor...
Bingata masters’ exhibition in Prefectural Museum [News]
Bingata is the most valued of Ryukyu textiles, and one of the three Bingata schools dating back to the Ryukyu Kingdom era is Shiroma Bingata Atelier in Shuri-Yamakawa Town, Naha Ci...
Bio fuel company ready to move to production [News]
Biofuel-venture company Euglena which has its research and manufacturing facilities on Ishigaki Island and head office in Tokyo, announced on Monday it’s plan for the first practic...
26 new HIV carriers and AIDS cases in 2015 [News]
The Okinawa Prefectural Public Health and Medical Policy Division announced Monday that 26 new HIV carriers and AIDS cases have been discovered in Okinawa this year as of Nov. 30th...
Businessman falls to death from 6th floor in Naha [News]
A 27-year-old businessman fell down to his death from the 6th floor of a building in Matsuyama, Naha City, Sunday evening. According to Naha Police, Daisuke Ikeda, a businessman fr...
Laser light aimed at U.S. aircraft at Futenma [News]
U.S. Marine officials announced that intense light believed to be from a laser has been directed at U.S. military aircraft flying to and from MCAS Futenma five times since July las...
Customer discovers drink server part in her cup [News]
Incidents of customers discovering foreign objects in their food or drinks at McDonald’s restaurants at various parts of the country do not seem to abate. The latest headache for t...
Woman diver rescued after drifting 19 hours [News]
A 66-year-old man and 40-year-old woman diving off Keise Island, commonly known on Okinawa as Chiibishi, located between Naha and Tokashiki, were swept away about noon on Sunday. A...
Ryukyu Textile Exhibition at Times Gallery through Sunday [News]
The Ryukyu Textile Exhibition started Wednesday and runs through Sunday at the Times Gallery on the second floor of Okinawa Times newspaper building in Kumoji, Naha City. The exhib...
Unemployed man nabbed for stealing copper wire [News]
Okinawa City Police arrested 47-year-old, unemployed Yoshimasa Goya from Kina, Yomitan Village, on Nov. 24th, on suspicion of stealing copper wires from a chrysanthemum field. The ...
Naha man held for assault over money trouble [News]
Naha Police arrested a 32-year-old company president from Naha City on Nov. 25th, on suspicion of an assault. According to police, Shuntaro Arai is suspected of assaulting a 21-yea...
NPO to set up children’s support facility in Okinawa City [News]
Promise Keepers, an Okinawan NPO that supports homeless, poor and needy, is planning to open a ‘diner for kids’ (kodomo-shokudo) that would also offer study support and a place to ...
Junior high school boy arrested for attacking teacher [News]
Ginowan City Police on arrested a 14-year-old male student of a junior high school in the middle part of the island, Nov. 20th, on suspicion of physically assaulting a teacher. Acc...
Prefecture health officials warn of mumps epidemic [News]
The Okinawa Prefectural Government Health and Longevity Division announced Friday that mumps epidemic has been spreading on the island since October, and it seems possible that the...
Construction worker arrested for attempted rape of school girl [News]
Okinawa City Police arrested a construction worker from Okinawa City, Friday, on suspicion of an attempted rape of an elementary school girl in a stairway of a building in the midd...
One found dead in Uruma building fire [News]
A fire broke out on the second floor of a two-story apartment in Miyazato, Uruma City, about 21:00, Friday. A passerby noticed smoke and fire coming out from the apartment window, ...
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