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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
Henoko dispute heading for courts [News]
The fight over the construction in Henoko of the replacement facility to MCAS Futenma intensifies and seems to be heading to the courts as both sides are taking measures to counter...
Hospital employs tablets for real-time translation [News]
Urasoe Sogo hospital has deployed a system that enables foreign patients and hospital staff to talk with the help of an online interpreter through mobile tablets. It’s the fi...
Itoman Police lose their investigators’ digital camera [News]
Itoman Police has lost a digital camera with its SD memory card that had been used in investigations and had been kept in a cabinet in the Itoman Police Station. A spokesman for th...
Unresolved problems abound for Henoko project [News]
The Okinawa Defense Bureau has decided to extend by about three months its survey of the seabed off the coast of Henoko, citing the pause in the work during the gubernatorial and H...
79-year-old woman robbed at knifepoint on Miyako [News]
A small store was robbed of ¥15,000 by a man wielding a knife in Miyakojima City, Miyako Island, in the afternoon of Mar. 20th. According to Miyako Police, a man brandishing a weap...
Nearly 4,000 protest at Henoko on Saturday [News]
According to organizers, about 3,900 people took part in a protest rally at a beach in Sedate, Henoko, Nago City, Saturday, demanding a halt to the seabed drilling survey at the pl...
Marines’ policy deputy forced to resign over leaked video [News]
A video showing the arrest of Hiroji Yamashiro, the 62-year-old chairman of the Okinawa Heiwa Undo Center (Peace Movement Center), protesting the construction at Henoko in front of...
U.S. military truck knocks down wall, leaves scene [News]
A large U.S. military vehicle crashed into a concrete block wall of a private resident in Konbu, Uruma City, about 7 a.m. on Mar. 18th and knocked down a section of the wall about ...
Okinawan man arrested for threats against U.S. Embassy [News]
The Tokyo Metropolitan Police led task force arrested, a 52-year-old Okinawan man, Mar. 19th, for making bomb threats against the U.S. Embassy in Tokyo. Mitsuyoshi Kamiya was arres...
Tokyo company planning to open Internet based school on Ikei [News]
Kadokawa Dwango, a company based in Tokyo that was created when one of the largest publishing companies in Japan, Kadokawa Co. and Dwango Co., Ltd, a Japanese IT company joined for...
Discovery of stone anchor could delay Henoko plan further [News]
Members of the Nago Board of Education and local research institutes came across an artifact that they believe is a stone anchor from a medieval ship during a survey on the planned...
High school entrance test results announced [News]
Results of the entrance exams of the prefectural public high schools were announced in the morning of Mar. 17th when the names of those who passed tests were posted on the bulletin...
Man arrested for scaring child with kitchen knife [News]
Okinawa City Police arrested a 54-year-old unemployed man about 5 p.m. on Mar. 15th, on suspicion of threatening a 9-year-old elementary school girl with a kitchen knife on a stree...
New Naha Bus Terminal construction to begin [News]
A major urban redevelopment in the area next to Asahibashi Monorail Station in Naha, including the construction of the new Naha Bus Terminal will start soon. The old Naha Bus Termi...
Chinese tourists getting lost cause severe delay at Naha Airport [News]
Three Chinese women en route from Ishigaki to Haneda Airport in Tokyo got lost and entered by mistake to the baggage claim area on the first floor of the airport where transit pass...
JAL expanding passenger in flight access to Internet [News]
Japan Airlines, JAL, is expanding the installation of its onboard Wi-Fi service, ‘JAL SKY Wi-Fi’ to all of its domestic fights. The service started on several domestic routes in v...
Marine Commandant weighs in on Henoko progress [News]
The commandant of the U.S. Marine Corps has expressed concern that if the construction of the replacement facility for MCAS Futenma is delayed, the planned transfer of Marine units...
Boring into Henoko seabed re-started on Thursday [News]
Okinawa Defense Bureau resumed the boring survey Thursday morning, on the seabed off Henoko. The survey is necessary for the construction of the V-shaped runways for the replacemen...
Counterfeit imports increase fourth year in row [News]
According to a report from Okinawa Regional Customs Office, the number of cases of imported goods that are counterfeit or violate intellectual property rights has increased for the...
High school entrance tests held [News]
The entrance examination to local public high schools was conducted over two days, on Mar. 10th and 11th. The tests took place at 72 locations throughout the prefecture, and consi...
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