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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
Hackers net ¥23 million after breaking into banks’ computers [News]
Hackers broke into the computer systems of the Bank of Okinawa and the Bank of the Ryukyus, and managed to steal a total ¥23 million from the two banks. According to Okinawa Prefet...
Store robbed on Miyako Island [News]
A man holding a pair of scissors entered a shop on Miyako Island early morning on Feb. 27, and threatened a 77-year-old woman shopkeeper demanding money. The woman took out about \...
Okinawa fishermen’s tuna haul decreases slightly [News]
According to Okinawa Prefecture Department of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries, catches of tuna decreased about two percent during the period from May to July last year. Departm...
Okinawa Prefectural Police opens new department [News]
Okinawa Prefectural Police announced Feb. 26th that starting Apr. 1st, a new “Children’s and Women’s Safety Division” will start operations. The new division will focus on crimes i...
Naha Airport 2nd runway construction work begins [News]
Okinawa General Bureau announced that the offshore construction of the Naha Airport second runway started Tuesday, when the first 12 buoys marking the planned site of the runway we...
Novelty tour package to Kume Island unveiled [News]
Jumbo Tours Inc. announced they would start marketing locally a new tour package, called “2-day trip to Kume Island with JAL/JTA” from Mar. 1st, aimed especially at their female cu...
Taxi fares to rise [News]
Due to scheduled consumption tax increase on April 1, taxi fares on Okinawa will rise at the same time. The starting and meter tick-up fares will stay the same, but the distance th...
Hit and run in Naha [News]
A car collided with a motorcycle on Route 507 in Kohagura, Naha City, Monday morning, and fled the scene. The 49-year-old driver of the motorcycle suffered severe injuris. Naha Cit...
Y-plate hit and run [News]
A car with Y-register plats crashed with another car driven by a man in his 20’s, Friday morning at an intersection in an Awase housing area in Okinawa City. According to Okinawa C...
Cervical cancer removed during pregnancy [News]
The University of the Ryukyus announced Monday a success in removing a cervical cancer from a pregnant woman. The woman in her 30s underwent the surgery last August, and gave birth...
Okinawan singers in N.Y. [News]
Music group “Music from Japan” that promotes Japanese traditional and modern music performed at an Okinawan Music Concert in New York on Feb. 22nd to an audience of about 100 peopl...
Purse snatching in Okinawa City [News]
A 58-year-old office worker was walking on a sidewalk at about 2 a.m., Saturday, in Uechi, Okinawa City when a man came from behind and grabbed his wallet containing ¥70,000 in cas...
1% of Ryukyu University students have experienced DUI [News]
One percent of university students have driven under influence at least once in their lifetime, according to a survey published on Thursday. Professor Kazushige Shimizu from the Un...
Man arrested for attempted abduction of school girl [News]
Okinawa Prefecture Police arrested a 46-year-old Urasoe man, Tuesday, on suspicion of an attempt to abduct an elementary school girl in Motobu, in northern Okinawa. The man has adm...
Arsenic contamination found at Hansen helicopter crash site [News]
Okinawa Bureau of Defense and Policy announced on Tuesday, that arsenic contamination has been discovered in the soil at the site where a U.S. Military HH60 rescue helicopter crash...
Sanshin exhibition open at Okinawa Prefectural Museum [News]
An exhibition at the Okinawa Prefectural Museum & Art Museum opened an exhibition on sanshin, the Okinawa’s trademark instrument, starting Tuesday. There will be several of the...
Japan’s oldest shell tools discovered in Minatogawa [News]
Archaeologists digging in Sakitari Cave in Minatogawa, Nanjo City, unearthed 39 sharp tools made of shells that have been determined to be the oldest tools ever discovered in Japan...
Elderly woman driver severely injured in car accident [News]
A 82-year-old Yomitan woman driving her car crashed head-on with a truck on Route 16 in Chibana, Okinawa City, Monday morning. According to Okinawa City Police investigators, the w...
Naha Airport new International Terminal opens [News]
The new Naha Airport International Terminal began operations on Monday. The terminal building has four floors, and is 3.6 times bigger than the old terminal. It also has more resta...
Onoyama FamilyMart dresses up in Giants’ theme [News]
One of Japan’s most storied pro-baseball teams, the Tokyo Yomiuri Giants, is currently holding the team’s spring training camp at Onoyama Baseball Stadium in Naha. To mark the occa...
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