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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
Police beef up presence at Camp Schwab main gate [News]
As tensions are rising between guards and demonstrators in front of Camp Schwab main gate after the government resumed work at the Henoko landfill site, close to two hundred member...
Artifacts found at Henoko landfill site [News]
Earthen vessels and stone artifacts were reportedly found on the seacoast in Camp Schwab at the location of the planned landfill of the replacement base for MCAS Futenma. Earlier, ...
Drunk mini bike driver falls during police chase [News]
A mini motorbike chased by a police patrol car ran into a curb and fell on the ground on a street in Ameku, Naha City after midnight on Nov. 2nd. The river of the bike, a 27-year-o...
Salmonella food poisoning affects five in Haebaru [News]
The Okinawa Prefectural Community Health Division on announced Nov. 2nd that a food poisoning case had occurred at a food stall in Miyagi, Haebaru Town. According to the Health Div...
Yaeyama police seek help for ID’ing body [News]
Yaeyama Police announced that an unidentified man’s body was found at Misashi Seacoast on Nov. 1st. According police, a local resident found the body lying face up washed ashore. Y...
Reputed Taiwanese mafia boss visits , meets local gangsters [News]
A reputed boss of the Taiwanese mafia, Chang An-lo, a.k.a. ‘White Wolf,’ visited Okinawa from Oct. 15th through 18th, according to Okinawa Prefectural Police sources. He was on the...
TripAdvisor users vote Oki-chan Show best among free in Japan [News]
TripAdvisor, the owner and manager of the world’s largest travel-related word-of-mouth website announced on its Japanese website the winner of its web poll titled “The best free si...
Kariyushi Beach Resort turns on year-end illumination LEDs [News]
Large illumination displays are the norm during the year-end holiday and winter season in Japan, with many resorts and public parks twinkling with elaborate creations of LED lights...
Greenpeace joins Henoko construction opposition [News]
Rainbow Warrior, a campaign ship of Greenpeace, a non-governmental international environmental activist organization, moored at Naha New Port on Okinawa, Nov. 1st, for a protest ag...
Police looking for motorcyclist after hit-and-run [News]
A man riding a motorcycle ran into and knocked down a 68-year-old woman in Gusukuma, Urasoe City, about 1 a.m. on Oct. 27th and left the scene without stopping. According to Urasoe...
Two Marines arrested on suspicion of assault [News]
Urasoe City Police arrested two marine sergeants stationed on Camp Hansen Tuesday, on suspicion of an assault. According to Urasoe Police, of 22-year-old Ryan Tipton and 22-year-ol...
Tokyo to dole out money directly to Henoko area communities [News]
The Japanese Government held a meeting at the office of the Prime Minister on Oct. 26th, to discuss regional development with representatives from “The three regions of Kube,” whic...
Okinawa’s top civil servants’ pay deliberated [News]
The Okinawa Prefectural Department of General Affairs had a meeting at the prefectural government office on Oct. 26th, to deliberate on the salary of the prefectural governor, depu...
Shark attack injures stand-up paddler off Itoman coast [News]
A man in his 40’s riding on his stand-up paddle board was thrown off his board and bitten on the right leg by something believed to be a shark, off Odohama coast in Itoman City, in...
UN child sex abuse investigator visits Okinawa [News]
Maud de Boer-Buquicchio, a special rapporteur of the United Nations on the sale of children, child prostitution and child pornography, visited Okinawa from Oct. 22 to 24th for an i...
Drunk party robbed of belongings [News]
Robbers hit a party of drunken restaurant patrons early Sunday morning who were sleeping off their intoxication in a private room in a restaurant in Kumoji, Naha City. According to...
Japan to provide $11.3 million to U.S. training facility on Guam [News]
The Japanese Government has decided to provide a fund of $11.3 million for the U.S. Government towards the relocation costs of the U.S. Marines on Okinawa to Guam. Fumio Kishida, t...
Number of visitors rises to new record [News]
According to recently published statistics from the Okinawa Prefectural Tourism Policy Division, The number of tourists visiting Okinawa during the fist half of this fiscal year ro...
¥20-million embezzlement found at business association [News]
Kenichi Toyama, the chairman of the Association of Okinawa Prefectural Chambers of Commerce and Industry, held a press conference Oct. 22nd at the Chatan Town Commerce and Industry...
Art university professor gets boot for sexual harassment [News]
The Okinawa Prefectural Personnel Division announced the termination of a male professor at the Okinawa Prefecture College of Performing Arts, effective Oct. 13th. The man, who’s i...
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