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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
Awase fishermen catch 335kg giant tuna [News]
A Pacific bluefin tuna weighing 335 kilograms was offloaded Sunday at Awase Fishing Port in Okinawa City. According to Manabu Uesato, the captain of Rua-maru, the boat that had cau...
Survey charts favorites of prospective foreign first-time visitors [News]
The Okinawa Convention Bureau (OCVB) recently conducted a survey on things visitors would like to buy and restaurants they want to visit. 892 first-time visitors from Taiwan, Hong ...
Kadena Gate 1 to be moved to alleviate traffic congestion [News]
The Japanese Ministry of Defense started ea study to move the Kadena Air Base Gate 1 on Highway 58 south of its current location in order to alleviate the traffic congestion in the...
Taiwanese mother and baby released from hospital, return to Taiwan [News]
A 20-year-old Taiwanese woman who gave birth prematurely while visiting Okinawa and her baby boy returned to Taiwan Wednesday evening. She had pay ¥8.5 million in medical costs bec...
OCVB multilingual tourist info inquiries increased 9% in 2016 [News]
Okinawa Convention and Visitors Bureau (OCVB) announced an analysis of the usage of its multilingual contact center for foreign tourists in 2016. According to the analysis, the cen...
Arcade Resort Okinawa Hotel & Café open in Okinawa City [News]
The Arcade Resort Okinawa Hotel & Café, a facility built in renovated vacant stores in the Ichibankan shopping arcade in Okinawa City, and managed by a nonprofit organization “...
Police warn women on increasing sexual assault incidents [News]
Okinawa Prefectural Police is warning women to be careful when they walk alone, especially when entering deserted areas late in the evening, as there has been 27 reported incidents...
Okinawa City taxi driver arrested for hit and run [News]
Okinawa Police arrested a 75-year-old taxi driver, Monday, on suspicion of negligent driving resulting in injury and leaving the scene of an accident. According to police, taxi dri...
Over 20 million passengers go through Naha Airport [News]
More than 20 million passengers went through the domestic and international terminals of Naha Airport during fiscal 2016. It marks the first time the total number of passengers exc...
Japan’s oldest human bones excavated on Ishigaki Island [News]
The Okinawa Buried Cultural Property Investigation Center announced Friday that human bones from the Old Stone Age were excavated from the Shiraho Saonetabaru Cave. The archaeologi...
Correspondence school planned for Yonaguni [News]
Yonaguni Town and Cabinet Office are reportedly preparing for a plan to build a correspondence upper secondary school on the island. A demonstration experiment to conduct trial les...
Long waiting time at airport irks rental car users [News]
A survey on the congestion at Naha Airport conducted by Okinawa Prefecture in 2016, found that it takes up to two hours to rent a car after arriving at Naha Airport during the summ...
Two police resign after subject of disciplinary action [News]
The Okinawa Prefectural Police Inspection Division suspended a 33-year-old male police sergeant serving at Ginowan Police Station for six months from duty on May 18th as a discipli...
Car rentals by foreign tourists at highest rate ever [News]
A study by Okinawa Rent-a-car Association found that the number of car rentals by foreign tourists in 2016 was 207,970 that is a record high for the third consecutive year. By nati...
Man arrested after setting two police officers on fire [News]
Ishikawa Police arrested a 51-year-old man after he poured flammable liquid on two police officers, who went to arrest him on another charge, and set them on fire on Wednesday. One...
Rains fell big banyan tree at Futenma Shrine [News]
Torrential rains hit Okinawa main island from early morning Tuesday due to a seasonal rain front. According to the Okinawa Meteorological Observatory, 107.5 millimeters rain was re...
Disney mulling to build hotel in Ginowan [News]
Oriental Land, the company operating Tokyo Disneyland, has reportedly had discussions with Ginowan City officials about a plan to build a resort hotel on the returned land within s...
Assistant principal arrested for taking photos up woman’s skirt [News]
Uruma Police arrested Monday an assistan principal of a junior high school on suspicion of taking a photo up a woman’s skirt in a convenience store in Taba, Uruma City. According t...
2,253 children on waiting list for nursery schools [News]
A study by Okinawa Child Care Support Division published on Monday, found 2,253 children in the prefecture were on waiting lists to get into publicly certified nursery schools as o...
4,943 foreign employees work in Okinawa Prefecture [News]
According to employment figures derived from the national census in 2015, the number of foreign employees in Okinawa increased by 50 percent compared to the previous census five ye...
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