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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
Bicycle thefts on increase [News]
Okinawa Prefecture Police published statistics regarding the number of bicycle thefts on Okinawa, on Sep. 26th, According to the police statistics, the count of reported bicycle th...
Small boy hospitalized after biting toxic fruit [News]
There are numerous cerbera odollam trees, commonly known as the suicide tree, Pong-pong or Othalanga, growing in the Okinawa Comprehensive Athletic Park. The tree is native to Indi...
Taxi fatally runs over 57-year-old man [News]
A taxicab ran over a man in an accident in Urasoe, Sep. 29 with fatal consequences. According to Urasoe Police, The accident took place on Route 241 in Nihshihara, Urasoe City, ear...
Bashofu Exhibition starts [News]
“Bashofu Then and Now” exhibition has started on Sep. 27th at Okinawa Times Gallery, in the Kumoji district of Naha City. Bashohu is a type of textile woven from fibers of the Japa...
Elementary school vice-principal arrested for assault [News]
Okinawa City Police arrested 49-year-old Naha City elementary school vice-principal Ryo Kanemoto, Sep. 25, for sexually assaulting a woman in her 20s. According to investigators, t...
Man arrested for trespassing into MCAS Futenma [News]
Ginowan City Police arrested a 65-year-old man, Sep. 26, on a charge of trespassing into the U.S. MCAS Futenma airfield. When questioned, the man confessed to the charges. Accordin...
Okinawa fourth worst in Japan to abandon pets [News]
Sep. 20th through 26th was the Animal Protection Week in Japan. During that week, the Okinawa Prefecture Nature Conservation Division announced the statistic regarding the number o...
Okinawa has number one birth rate 39 years in row [News]
Okinawa Prefecture Welfare Division announced Tuesday the 2012 Okinawa Vital Statistics data. According to department figures, the number of births in the prefecture increased by 1...
Koza Rock and Jazz collaboration event Saturday [News]
“The Birth Story Of B.C. Street, Photo Exhibition, Talk Show & Okinawa Rock All Stars + Jazz Collaboration” event will be held Saturday in the Ashibinaa Theater on the third fl...
Drunk school teacher arrested after break into residence [News]
Uruma City Police Department arrested 39-year-old elementary school teacher Takayuki Nakama, of Okinawa City, on Sep. 22, for breaking into a residence while drunk, in Uruma City. ...
Unexploded ordnance found again in Uruma City [News]
Unexploded WW II era bombs have repeatedly been discovered along the coast Miyagi Island in Uruma City. A total of eight duds have been found since July. City officials say that th...
Naha Airport to have second runway open by 2020 [News]
Japan’s Cabinet Office has decided to finalize the construction of the second runway at Naha Airport by Mar. 31st 2020. The construction is scheduled to begin January 2014, and be ...
Okinawa National College of Technology celebrates 10th anniversary [News]
A total of 1,100 students, teachers and invited guests attended the 10th anniversary ceremony of the Okinawa National College of Technology in Nago on Sep. 21st. In his speech, the...
Ban on men entering Se-Fa-Utaki under consideration [News]
Nanjo City Mayor Keishun Koja announced Sep. 20th, that he would consider controlling the entrance of male visitors to one of Okinawa’s World Heritage Sites, the Se-Fa-Utaki. The r...
Academic Conference on Endangered Languages in Okinawa [News]
The “18th Academic Conference on Endangered Languages” is scheduled to be held in Okinawa from Sep. 7th through 10th. The purpose of the international academic conferen...
First artificial heart implant surgery performed in Okinawa [News]
In June this year, the University of Ryukyus Medical Department implanted an artificial heart into a patient with a severe heart condition. This is the first time in Okinawa for su...
Hagoromo Elementary School to open next spring [News]
The construction work is going on in Oyama, Ginowan, to make a new pre- and elementary school. The new school, named Hagoromo Elementary School, is scheduled to open at the beginni...
Record 700,000 tourists visit Okinawa in August [News]
According to the Okinawa Prefecture Tourism Division, 705,500 tourists visited Okinawa during the month of August. This marks the first time the number rose to more than 700,000, a...
Onna Village to get FIFA approved artificial grass field [News]
Water drains slowly from sports fields after rain, and there are many times that games are canceled due to bad weather. Onna Village has now plans in place to construct their first...
Okinawa has eighth most centenarians in Japan [News]
Okinawa Prefecture Welfare Division announced that there are currently 923 elderly citizens aged over 100 years or more living in the prefecture. That is 42 more than last year. Al...
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