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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
Washita Shop to start live music events [News]
Washita Shop, a prefecture-run antenna shop on Kokusai Street promoting local Okinawan products, is expanding its horizons to entertainment. The shop is starting a new service of l...
Demonstrators plan to circle Prefectural Building on Oct. 9th [News]
Diet members from Okinawa, and representatives of the four opposition parties in the Prefectural Assembly have decided to organize a demonstration on Oct. 9, and join hands circlin...
Youth, junior high students arrested for group assault [News]
Yonabaru Police arrested a 16-year-old unemployed boy and a 15-year-old construction worker, Sunday, on suspicion of assaulting a 15-year-old junior high school student. Two other...
Police to start cracking down on drivers’ sunshades [News]
The Okinawa Prefectural Police announced that it would commence a crack down campaign on sunshades and other objects covering driver’s side windows or windscreen. By law, drivers c...
McDonalds to start delivery service on Okinawa on Oct. 2nd [News]
McDonald’s Japan announced that it will start a new delivery service called ‘Mac Delivery’ at two stores; Kokusai Street Makishi for Naha area and Ohira Inter for Urasoe from Octob...
Free show to attract tourists to commence in Mihama [News]
Chatan Town Tourist Association, Mihama American Village Association and Jumbo Tours will join forces in organizing a series of events under title “Night Tourism Entertainment Show...
Large number of undersea vent chimneys found off Kume [News]
Japan Coast Guard announced Sep. 19th that so far the biggest group of vent chimneys, also known as hydrothermal vents, within Japan’s exclusive economic zone (EEZ) was found in th...
Okinawa has more underweight babies than national average [News]
According to Okinawa Prefecture officials, Okinawan mothers give birth to more low-weight babies than the rest of Japan. Official statistics show that whereas 10.3 % of babies born...
Morton Halperin visits Okinawa first time in 47 years [News]
Morton Halperin who served as a senior negotiator of the U.S. Government at the reversion of Okinawa to Japan talks visited Okinawa yesterday for the first time in 47 years. Durin...
Okinawan ancestors much closer to people of Japan than Taiwan or China [News]
A collaboration study group led by Takehiro Sato, a postdoctoral fellow at the Graduate School of Medicine of the University of the Ryukyus, and Ryosuke Kimura, an associate profes...
Chief Cabinet Secretary Suga visits Okinawa today [News]
Yoshihide Suga, the Chief Cabinet Secretary and Minister in Charge of Alleviating the Burden of Bases on Okinawa, is visiting Okinawa today. This visit on Okinawa is related to him...
Government mulling postponing start of Henoko landfill [News]
The Japanese government is reportedly considering a plan to postpone the start of the landfill at Henoko until 2015 or later, government sources said Tuesday. Initially, the landfi...
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Okinawa World’s Nantomaru replica ship to be retired [News]
The replica of a traditional the Ryukyu kingdom era Okinawan ship “Nantomaru,” currently on display at Okinawa World theme park in Nanjo city will be retired in October. Nantomaru ...
Lance corporal arrested on suspicion of drunk driving [News]
A 20-year-old U.S. Marine Lance Corporal was arrested on suspicion violating the Road Traffic Law, Sunday. According to the Naha Police, a patrolling officer became suspicious of a...
Leptospirosis warning issued over swimming in Okinawa rivers [News]
The Okinawa Prefecture Health and Longevity Division has issued an alert to people about a possibility of contacting leptospirosis when swimming in the bodies of sweet water like r...
Record number of centenarians on Okinawa [News]
Prior to the Respect-for-Senior-Citizens Day on Monday, the Ministry of Health, Labor and Welfare announced that the number of senior citizens over the age of 100 in Japan has incr...
Yui Rail to offer free rides for seniors on Respect-for-Senior-Citizens Day [News]
The Respect-for-Senior-Citizens Day, a national Japanene holiday is celebrated on Monday. Yui Rail, the Okinawa Urban Monorail Inc, announced that senior people over the age of 70 ...
Oldest coins in Okinawa found in Shuri [News]
The Okinawa Prefecture Board of Education announced that the eight Ryukyu gold coins thought to be the oldest every found on Okinawa were discovered in turban shells in the area of...
Prefecture requests setting up Okinawa Resource Center at George Washington University [News]
Okinawa Vice Governor Kurayoshi Takara made a request to the library of the George Washington University in the U.S. to establish an “Okinawa resource center” (tentative name) in t...
Okinawa Week on way in Washington C.D. [News]
An event to promote the culture and history of Okinawa kicked off in Washington D.C. , Thursday, with an opening ceremony of “Okinawa Week” that took place at the resid...
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