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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
Yomitan marine product complex opens at Toya Port [News]
An inauguration ceremony of the new Yomitan local marine product complex was held on Tuesday. Yomitan Village Fishermen’s Association built the facility on the premises of Toya Fis...
Okinawa consumer price index highest in nation [News]
The consumer price index calculated by Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communications that compares prices of food and daily necessities in cities throughout the nation found that...
Miyako police officer issued ticket for DUI [News]
A police officer in Miyakojima City on Miyako Island was found to have driven his car under the influence after he arrived at work hangover, and was punished with a fine. The incid...
Naha civil servant arrested trying to sneak upskirt photos [News]
Naha Police arrested a Naha City civil servant Monday on suspicion of trying to take photos up women’s skirts. According to police, 39-year-old Jin Kohagura, a civil servant at Nah...
Yanbarukuina under attack by wild dogs [News]
A research by the Ministry of Environment Yanbaru Wildlife Conservation Center concluded that the number of Yanbarukuina, a.k.a. Okinawa rail, in Sosu, Kunigami Village, has declin...
Parents’ lacking interest causes juvenile crimes [News]
According to a survey of children who entered the Naha juvenile home system in 2016, one big reason for underage drinking and other bad behavior seems to be that many parents show ...
Okinawa Urban Monorail carries over 17 million passengers [News]
The Okinawa Urban Monorail Co. carried 17,323,988 passengers in fiscal 2016 that ended Mar. 31st that is 1,167,086 (7.22%) more than the previous year, and the most ever since the ...
Ryudai program produces two new consumer products [News]
A program at the University of the Ryukyus aimed at developing new commercial products to help local economy produced two new products during its inaugural year 2016 that will be p...
Mitsubishi to build major resort on Miyako Island [News]
A major Japanese real estate company, Tokyo-based Mitsubishi Estate has bought a large lot of reclaimed land in Turibah, near Hirara Port, on Miyako Island in order to build a reso...
Prospects for Okinawa economy remain good [News]
The Bank of Japan, Naha Branch, has published its monthly financial and economic overview of February 2017. The bank sums up its assessment of the current situation as, “On the who...
Junior high school kids found drinking in park [News]
A local resident in Itoman called police after seeing four junior high school boys and girls having a party and drinking alcohol in a park in Maesato, Itoman City, on Apr. 6th. Ito...
GODAC opens website showing deep sea marine litter [News]
The Global Oceanographic Data Center (GODAC) in Nago City has opened a website that includes a database and images and videos of marine litter in the deep sea within the Japanese e...
Bireley’s shiqwasa-flavor soft drink now on sale [News]
Asahi Orion Inryo, the maker of Bireley’s brand soft drinks, has launched a new soft drink called “Okinawa Bireley’s Shiqwasa” using shiqwasa (hirami lemon) juice made in Okinawa. ...
Ishigaki Airport gets import/export customs office [News]
The Ministry of Finance has designated Painushima Ishigaki Airport as a customs airport allowing imports and exports of international cargo, as of Apr. 1st. The Ishigaki airport is...
Company demonstrates hand-held translation device [News]
Logbar Inc., a Tokyo company that is known as a developer of “Ring Zero,” the world’s smallest input device, and “ili,” a wearable translator device held a demonstration of the tra...
Two new orchid species found in Yambaru forest [News]
Kenji Suetsugu, an assistant professor at Kobe University Graduate School of Science, discovered two new species of orchids in a northern Okinawa forest. He named the new species “...
Means to fight crown of thorns starfish may be at hand [News]
A research team of Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology Graduate University (OIST) has found that it’s a possibility that acanthasters, usually known as crown of thorns star...
Quarter of Okinawan men never marry [News]
It seems that marriage is losing its luster among Japanese despite of the best efforts by the government worried about the declining birthrate and shrinking population. According a...
CPoint Next helps foreign students to find jobs [News]
CPoint Next, a Tida Square group company, is helping foreign students who study at universities in Okinawa to find jobs. The company opened a website last December to introduce for...
Monorail Asahibashi station complex to open in 2018 [News]
The full image of the commercial complex currently under construction on the former Naha Bus Terminal site and adjacent to Monorail Asahibashi Station scheduled to open in 2018, wa...
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