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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
Air pollution reduces visibility in Okinawa [News]
A high concentration of particulates called ‘PM2.5’ was monitored in the air in Okinawa on Jan. 17th. According to officials at Okinawa Meteorological Observatory, an average of 78...
Marine helicopter drops hardware into ocean [News]
Three pieces of military equipment fell into the ocean from an MCAS Futenma based Marine helicopter on Jan. 15th. According to the Okinawa Defense Bureau report to the Okinawa Pref...
Mystery wild flamingo observed in Okinawa City [News]
Sightings of a flamingo that is not a native species to Okinawa have often been reported in the southern and middle parts of the Island since last month. However, there have been n...
Crimes by U.S. military lowest since reversion [News]
According to the Okinawa Prefectural Police official statistics, the number of crimes committed by the U.S. military personnel in 2014 decreased to the lowest level since the rever...
Land rent for Camp Schwab sees considerable hike [News]
According to local press reports, the Japanese Ministry of Defense plans a considerable hike of the rent it pays for the land for the U.S. military use on a part of Camp Schwab. Th...
Okinawans lucky in nationwide Year-end Jumbo Lottery [News]
Half a dozen people on Okinawa had a very happy New Year, indeed. According to national lottery officials, no less than six winning tickets were sold on the island for the ‘Year-En...
Former Board of Education director fined for sex with minor [News]
On January 7th, Naha District Court ordered 60-year-old Shigeki Hamaguchi, a former Executive Director of Nakagami Board of Education who also served as the No.2 on the Prefectural...
Fast food restaurants plagued by unwanted “ingredients” [News]
Reported food contamination incidents in fast food restaurants have been a too often occurring news lately across the country. In Okinawa, according to the Okinawa Prefecture Gover...
Scuffle leads to first arrest at gate of Camp Schwab [News]
Preparing to restart the landfill work at the relocation site of MCAS Futenma at Henoko, 15 heavy construction vehicles entered Camp Schwab from late in the evening of Jan. 10th th...
2015.01.12
Okinawa rejects plans for gambling casinos [News]
More than eight years of research, studies and planning have been tossed by the wayside as Okinawa Prefecture is backing out of proposals for resorts that have casinos. Okinawa Pre...
Norovirus causes food poisoning in Naha hospital [News]
Naha City Public Health Institute has identified the source of a food poisoning caused by norovirus among patients at Omoromachi Medical Center in Uenoya, Naha City. According to c...
Number of youth celebrating adulthood increases slightly [News]
Monday was a Japanese national holiday, “Seijin no Hi” or “Coming of Age Day,” and according to the Okinawa Prefecture Youth, Child and Family Guidance Division, there were 17, 271...
Golden Kings join forces with NPO against breast cancer [News]
Ryukyu Golden Kings and NPO Pink Panther, an organization dedicated to fighting breast cancer and supporting breast cancer patients, are joining forces by staging a ‘Ladies Weekend...
Vandals damage cars in Okinawa City [News]
A driver returning to his parked car on a city road in Akamichi, Okinawa City, around midnight on Jan. 9, discovered that someone had ripped off the outside mirrors and windshield ...
Tokyo hints at cutting Okinawa promotion budget request [News]
Regarding the ¥379.4 billion Okinawa promotion budget for fiscal 2015 that the prefecture requested last summer, Shunichi Yamaguchi, the Minister of State for Okinawa and Northern ...
Two youths arrested for illegal entry into Kinser [News]
Urasoe Police arrested two boys, an 18-year-old painter and a 17-year-old plaster worker, both from the southern part of the island, on suspicion of violating the Act on Special Me...
Okinawa traffic death toll record low in 2014 [News]
As of Dec. 31st, 36 people had died in Okinawa in 2014 in traffic accidents. That marks the lowest number since 1947. Previously, the lowest number was in 2012 when 40 people died ...
Airman arrested on Jan. 1st on suspicion of trespassing [News]
Okinawa City Police arrested a 23-year-old Technical Sergeant stationed on Kadena Air Base on suspicion of trespassing into an apartment in Okinawa City. According to police, TSgt....
2015.01.05
2014: Guard changes, but Futenma remains Okinawa’s issue [News]
For the third year in a row, the plans to move MCAS Futenma to a new base in Henoko, demands to move it out of the prefecture, and opposition to about everything related to the bas...
Elderly man arrested for robbery of 100 yen [News]
An elderly man was arrested after he robbed a clothing store at a knifepoint in Uruma City, Dec. 29. Uruma City Police arrested 77-year-old Tadashi Shinzato on suspicion of unlawfu...
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