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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
Car running on sidewalk kills one, injures one [News]
A car driven by a 20-year-old drunk university student lost control of his car, and went onto a sidewalk hitting two men, killing one and inuring the other. According to Naha Polic...
Hit-and-run accident in Nakagusuku [News]
A Y-plate car making a left turn from Route 329 went over to the opposite lane hitting the car of an Okinawa City resident, and then sped away without stopping at the scene, Saturd...
U.S. airman arrested for drunk driving [News]
Okinawa City Police arrested 22-year-old Senior Airman on suspicion of driving under influence in Kitanakagusuku, Sunday morning. According to police, 22-year-old SrA Christopher H...
Ishigaki archaeological excavation unearths parts of human skull [News]
Okinawa Archaeological Research Center that has been conducting an excavation at Shiraho Saone Tabaru Cave on Ishigaki Island announced Oct. 29 that they have discovered fragments ...
Kouri Ocean Tower to open this month [News]
Nago Pineapple Park is currently building a tourist complex called “Kouri Ocean Tower” on Kouri Island. Nago Pineapple Park President Kiyoshi Asato announced Wednesday that the tow...
Okinawa’s super hero goods available on Internet [News]
Yuichi Koyano, the president of Mabui Stone, a company specializing in the design and development of characters such as Okinawa’s best-known superhero Ryujin Mabuyer, announced the...
More hotels and convenience stores to get exchange machines [News]
Okinawa Bank President Yoshiaki Tamaki announced Tuesday that the bank will install currency exchange machines to seven facilities on Okinawa main island. The new machines will be ...
Gorbachev cancels Okinawa visit [News]
Former Soviet Union President and Nobel Price winner Mikhail Gorbachev has cancelled his trip to Okinawa that was scheduled to take place Nov. 7. Gorbachev was to be a special gues...
Mother drowns, son survives fall into sea in Ginowan Marina [News]
A woman drowned, and her son survived as both accidentally fell into water in Ginowan Marina, Saturday afternoon. According to Ginowan Police, the 8-year-old son was playing on the...
English education to start from elementary school 3rd grade [News]
Up to now, English teaching in elementary schools has not been considered another subject but rather a foreign language activity, for which no textbooks have been used nor have stu...
Okinawa destination weddings fall 1.7% [News]
According to Okinawa Prefecture Tourism Division statistics the number of so called destination weddings in Okinawa fell slightly from previous year. Weddings, for which both the n...
Okinawa tourism promotion in movie theaters begins [News]
Promotion company SB Japan began the promotion of Okinawa tourism in 300 movie theaters throughout Japan on the 24th. During the campaign, commercials promoting Okinawa tourism are...
Nago Police catch motorcycle hit and run driver [News]
Nago Police arrested a 21-year-old unemployed man, Yoshinori Higa, Tuesday, on suspicion of for a hit-and-run accident involving two men on a motorcycle hitting a pedestrian, on Oc...
New Makeman main store to open in Urasoe [News]
Home Center Makeman President Junichi Miyagi celebrated the inauguration of the Urasoe Makeman main branch opening, Tuesday. A total of 200 construction personnel and Makeman staff...
Police pulls out gun to drunken boy [News]
Yonabaru Police received a complaint from a citizen, Monday evening, regarding a group of young boys drinking in a public park. When a police patrol arrived at the scene, a senior ...
Elderly female diver in coma in Ishigaki [News]
An elderly female tourist in her 70s was diving off the southern coast of Taketomi Island, Monday afternoon, when dive instructors noticed that she was in trouble. According to the...
Taxi rollover accident kills two [News]
A large-size taxicab owned by Kokuwa Dai-Ichi Jumbo Taxi Co. crashed into the guardrail on the Okinawa Expressway while approaching the toll booth in Kyoda, Nago City, rolled over ...
Leaders ignore revising Status of Forces Agreement [News]
U.S. and Japanese Defense and foreign affairs leaders put their heads together in Tokyo, but one key topic that failed to hit the center of the table was changes in core issues of ...
Ospreys join Japan – U.S. Joint Disaster Drill [News]
A pair of MV-22B Ospreys will be participating next week in a joint disaster drill taking place in the Chugoku, Shikoku and Kyushu areas. The joint disaster drill is to be conducte...
51-year-old man found dead in ocean [News]
On Oct. 17th at 7 am, a man was found floating at Nakazato Port in Kume Island. According to Kume police, Masahide Maezato, a restaurant employee, was in cardiac arrest when he was...
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