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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
18-year-old drowns in Yonabaru [News]
A male body was found about 30 meters off shore at Itarashiki, Yonabaru Town, in the evening of Jul. 9th. According to Yonabaru Police, The body was badly damaged and without cloth...
Fishing man dies in Naha [News]
A passerby noticed a man floating face down in the sea at Aja Harbor in Naha in the morning of Jul. 9th and called the police. A Naha Fire Station rescue team took the 31-year-old ...
Prosecutors drop robbery and assault charges against Marine sergeant [News]
Naha District Public Prosecutors Office announced that they dropped the case against a 26-year-old Marine Sergeant from Camp Hansen because of insufficient evidence, on Jul. 6th. T...
June was warmest on record [News]
According to the Okinawa Meteorological Bureau, the average temperature on Okinawa in June was the highest since records were started in 1946. Bureau officials explain that a warm ...
Onaga expects ‘serious talks to start from now’ [News]
Business circles in Okinawa are growing exceedingly worried about the apparent inability of the Okinawa governor and the central government in Tokyo to see each other eye-to-eye am...
Businessman nabbed for DUI hit-and-run [News]
Ishikawa Police arrested a 48-year-old businessman suspected of a hit-and-run accident that happened on a street in Ishikawa, Uruma City on Jul. 4th, According to Ishikawa Police, ...
Prefecture pays summer bonuses to workers [News]
The Okinawa Prefectural Government paid the semiannual bonus to prefectural office workers on Jun. 30th. The average bonus for employees working in general administration, except t...
Health insurance documents fell off truck, missing [News]
The prefectural association responsible for operating the health-care system for the elderly aged 75 and older, announced Jul. 1st that insurance documents of 36 of individuals had...
Woman arrested for stabbing father to death [News]
Yaeyama Police arrested Kazumi Sato, a 46-year-old female restaurant worker, on Jul. 1st, on suspicion of an attempted murder of her father, 75-year-old Zensho Higashiyamamori. Pol...
JTA flight makes emergency descent [News]
An alarm indicating a drop in the air pressure in the cabin went off on a Japan Transocean Air flight 002 from Naha to Kansai International Airport in the morning of Jun. 30th. pro...
Dioxins, other toxins confirmed from soccer field drum cans [News]
In June 2013 fifteen drum cans were discovered buried in an Okinawa City soccer field that was built on a returned former base land by the Okinawa Minami Exit of Okinawa Expressway...
Miyamori Elementary School crash memorial service held [News]
59 years ago today, a U.S. military fighter jet from Kadena Air Base crashed into the Miyamori Elementary School and residential neighborhood next to the school in former Ishikawa ...
Man arrested on suspicion of groping girl in Yui-rail [News]
Naha Police on arrested a 62-year-old male part time worker from Kiyohara, Naha, Monday, on suspicion of groping a high school girl aboard the Naha monorail train. According to Nah...
Monument for wartime Okinawa governor unveiled in Naha [News]
Local residents on Okinawa unveiled a monument in Naha, Friday, to honor the memory of Akira Shimada, who was the governor of Okinawa Prefecture during the 1945 Battle of Okinawa, ...
Defense Ministry preparing for court battle on Henoko plan [News]
As the standoff regarding building the replacement facility for MCAS Futenma in Henoko drags on, officials at the Japanese Defense Ministry are considering the option of taking the...
Base landowners split [News]
The 92nd general meeting of the U.S. Military Landowners’ Federation took place Jun. 26th in Ginowan City in a rather stormy atmosphere as the Kadena Town Military Landowners Assoc...
Two more arrested on suspicion of spreading fake money [News]
Okinawa Prefectural Police announced Jun. 26th the arrest of two men, said to be in their 20’s and from the middle part of Okinawa, on suspicion of conspiring to use fake money. Po...
Kadena Aero Club Cessna makes rough landing at Kerama [News]
A Cessna 127 light aircraft belonging to Kadena Aero Club based on Kadena Air Base made a rough landing that left the aircraft slightly damaged at Kerama Airport in Zamami Village,...
Junior high girl arrested for robbing man of wallet [News]
Naha Police arrested on a 15-year-old junior high school girl Sunday on suspicion of robbery. According to police, the girl is suspected of approaching a 55-year-old unemployed man...
Naha to declare itself ‘LGBT friendly city’ [News]
Naha City Government is scheduled to declare the city an “LGBT (lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender) Friendly City” on Jul. 19th. The City Government explains that the aim is to...
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