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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
Okinawa to equal “Cute” [News]
Asobisystem Co., Ltd., best known for managing artist Kyary Pamyu Pamyu, is going to start a new project to develop tourism contents for Okinawa. The company is credited with havin...
New mayor wants military to partially ease curfew [News]
The newly elected mayor of Okinawa City, Sachio Kuwae, did not wait long to let it be known that he has the ear of local Okinawa City businesses. In an interview after the election...
Habu discovered to have swallowed four Yambaru Kuina [News]
Yasuhiro Makishi was on a hunt for habu snakes to use to make habu sake on Monday when he caught one. What he did not expect was the surprise when he opened the poisonous snake and...
House fire leaves father and son dead in Yomitan [News]
A wooden house caught fire and a neighbor alerted local fire department in Kina, Yomitan Village, late Saturday afternoon. According to Kadena Police and Nirai Fire Station, the 60...
Chinese ships once again venture into the Senkakus [News]
Only days after U.S. President Barack Obama promised Japan he’d support this Asian nation against anyone messing with it, China responded by sending a pair of its Coast Guard ships...
New book depicts Okinawa from foreigners’ perspective [News]
Tuttle Publishing Singapore has published an Okinawa guidebook in English titled “Okinawa and the Ryukyu Islands” aimed at foreign visitors to the islands. The guidebook is availab...
Observatory predicts cold Golden Week [News]
The Okinawa Meteorological Observatory sent out an early warning on Apr. 24th, saying Okinawa is likely to experience abnormal weather during the Golden Week holidays from Apr. 29 ...
LDP requests reconsideration of inter-island airfare hikes [News]
The Okinawa Chapter of the Liberal Democratic Party has requested two local airlines to reconsider their planned hike of airfares between Okinawa and outer islands of the prefectur...
Chartered fishing boat catches fire off Nago [News]
The Nago Station of the Japan Coast Guard received a message from a small fishing vessel, Apr. 24, reporting that the boat’s engine room had caught fire while out on Nago Bay. Nine...
Karaoke operator expands to facilities for seniors [News]
Dai-ichi Kosho Co. Ltd. President Yoshiaki Terayama announced Apr. 22 that his company plans to expand it’s business to senior homes and community centers to provide music therapy ...
Suspicious object causes bomb alert in Korinza Mall [News]
A passerby alerted police about a suitcase that was found on the third floor of Korinza Mall in Okinawa City, in the afternoon of Apr. 22. Police ordered the evacuation of 110 peop...
Okinawa welcomes 6.5 million visitors in 2013 [News]
Okinawa attracted a record number of visitors in 2013, according to the Okinawa Prefecture Tourism Policy Division. The division announced the number of tourists that visited Okina...
Crane arm breaks off causing brief blackout [News]
An arm of a crane broke off on a construction site in Ginowan, Monday, and fell on a power line, causing a brief blackout in the neighborhood homes. Three traffic lights also went ...
Color film of Shuri Castle during the war surfaces [News]
An organization formed by citizens of Usa, Oita Prefecture, to gather documents of the Pacific War, has released color images of Shuri Castle filmed before it burned down during th...
Three vehicles burn same night in Chatan [News]
Sometime on small hours of Apr. 18 three vehicles caught fire in Miyagi, Chatan. One of the cars, a Y-plate vehicle owned by U.S. serviceman, was on a parking lot between a restaur...
Truck driver killed in heavy machinery mishap [News]
A power shovel fell on a 2-ton truck at a material storage site in Kanekadan, Uruma City, Apr. 18, pinning the driver of the truck inside the vehicle. It took one hour for the fire...
Marine nabbed for DUI [News]
Naha City Police arrested a 35-year-old Marine on suspicion of driving under influence, early Sunday morning. According to Naha Police, a patrol noticed a car with a broken bumper ...
Yonabaru Railway Station to be reconstructed [News]
Yonabaru Railway Station that was destroyed in the Battle of Okinawa is being reconstructed on the site it once stood. Yonabaru Station was once the end of a narrow-gauge railway t...
Ryukyu Bingata, Shuri Weaving and Yoshida & Co., Ltd join hands [News]
Ryukyu Bingata, Shuri Weaving and Yoshida & Co., Ltd., famous for its porter bags, have joined hands and made a line of new types of bags that are introduced at the Ryubo depar...
Mozuku Day [News]
Katsuren Fishermen’s Association and Okinawa Mozuku Cultivation Promotion Council held the 12th Mozuku Day event, Sunday, from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. at the Heshikiya Fishing Port in Ka...
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