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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
Part-time teacher arrested for trespassing, sexual harassment [News]
Yaeyama Police arrested a 35-year-old part-time elementary school teacher, Hirofumi Arashiro, on Nov. 13th, in Tonoshiro, Ishigaki City, on suspicion of unlawful entry and harassin...
Ships collide on Nakagusuku Bay, smaller one sinks [News]
A Panama-registered 2,982-ton cargo ship ‘Yong Sheng 7’ with a Chinese crew of 14, collided with a Japanese 960-ton ‘No. 18 Hokuhei’ sand dredger ship with a crew of five, on Nakag...
Police investigates suspicious fires in Yaese [News]
Three suspicious fires took place on a vacant lot of land and sugar field in Yaese Town around noon on Nov. 10. An area of a total of 230 square meters was burned in addition to so...
Yoshimoto to set up satellite TV channel company in Okinawa [News]
Yoshimoto Kogyo Co., the largest and oldest entertainment management agency in Japan, will start a new satellite TV channel called ‘Kawaiian TV’ specializing in idols. The channel ...
Man’s remains discovered in cave in Miyakojima City [News]
Skeletal remains of a man were discovered in a cave in HIrara, Miyakohima City. A man living near the site made the grim discovery in September, and called the police. Miyako Polic...
New Hawaii Governor has family roots in Okinawa [News]
The 59-year-old Hawaii Senator, David Ige (D), a third-generation Japanese-American with family roots in Okinawa, was elected the Governor of Hawaii on Nov. 4. Ige defeated James A...
High school boy beaten up, robbed of ¥20,000 in cash [News]
Two men robbed a 18-year-old Nanjo City high school boy of ¥20,000 in cash after first assaulting and beating him up in the evening of Nov. 4th in Iha, Yaese Town. According to Ito...
Osprey flights faulted for death of noguchigera in Takae [News]
Several ‘Noguchigera’ or Pryer’s woodpeckers, have been found dead this year in Takae, Higashi Village. Noguchigera is the Prefectural Bird of Okinawa and a designated natural trea...
Defacing of gubernatorial election posters on rise [News]
It’s illegal to scribble anything on official election posters in Japan, but Okinawa Prefectural Police say that an increasing number of official posters of candidates on bulletin ...
Ogimi drowning in glut of Shiquasa [News]
Shiquasa, a locally grown Okinawan citrus fruit, had such a bumper crop this year in Ogimi Village that growers don’t know what to do with all of their crop. The record harvest has...
Camp Foster civilian nabbed for DUI [News]
Urasoe Police nabbed a 27-year-old civilian employee of Camp Foster, Nov. 1, on suspicion of drinking and driving. According to police, they saw a car moving erratically on a stree...
Dying man found on residential street in Urasoe [News]
A local resident found man bleeding from his head lying on a street in Gusukuma, Urasoe, on Nov. 1. The man was in cardiopulmonary arrest when he was found, and was taken to a hosp...
Ocean Expo dolphin with prosthetic tail dies [News]
Okinawa Ocean Expo Park officials announced Sunday that Fuji, the female bottlenose dolphin who was fitted with a prosthetic tail after its own tail had to be removed due to an ill...
High concentration of dioxin confirmed in unearthed cans [News]
A high concentration of toxic dioxin was detected in the 18 drum cans unearthed from a soccer field in Okinawa City in January when all together 61 suspicious drum cans were discov...
Third of Okinawa’s schools likely to be flooded in tsunami [News]
The Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology published on Oct. 28 results of a survey of likely water damage to public schools in Japan in case of a tsunami. ...
Yafuso Street merchants give away movie tickets [News]
The Yafuso Street Merchants’ Assocition in Urasoe has started a town promotion campaign giving out tickets to three movie shows at Yafuso Community Center.. During the campaign, th...
Vandalism prompts cancellation of Meio University sports event [News]
A Meio University-sponsored track and field event scheduled in Nago for the weekend was canceled after a tent, prepared for the event, was found deliberately damaged Saturday morni...
Street robbery in Uebaru [News]
A robber punched a man on the face Saturday evening in Uebaru, Naha City, grabbed the victim’s wallet and ran away. According to Tomigusuku Police, a stranger walking on a street a...
Brown sugar yeast awamori ‘Chura-sansan’ recognized [News]
“Chura-sansan” awamori of awamori brewer Mizuho Shuzo won the first prize in the Awamori category in the Fall National Alcoholic Drinks Contest 2014. What makes Chura-sansan except...
Woman’s body found in Kokuba River [News]
A passerby called the Tomigusuku Police emergency number Tuesday afternoon reporting a human body floating in Kokuba River in Tomigusuku. A rescue team dispatched to the scene pull...
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