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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
Fire at Uruma kills one [News]
A concrete two-story house caught fire in Kanekadan in Uruma City, Saturday evening. Uruma City Fire Department sent four fire engines, and two ambulances to the scene after they r...
Japan Coast Guard enhances Okinawa operations [News]
Japan Coast Guard, formerly known as the Maritime Safety Agency, has now a new office in Naha tasked with providing security in the area west of Okinawa. Specifically, the new offi...
Futenma relocation timeline again slipping [News]
A senior U.S. Marine Corps officer has hinted that the site of an air base in Okinawa Prefecture may not be returned to Japan in fiscal 2022, the earliest possible time the United ...
Se-fa Utaki breaks visitor record during Golden Week [News]
One of the most important holy places of the Ryukyu Kingdom, “Se-fa Utaki” in Nanjo City, counted the highest number of visitors in one day on May 4 when 3,146 people visited the s...
Large hime habu captured in Kunigami [News]
Yasuhiro Makishi captured an unusually large Himehabu snake (Okinawa pit viper) on a forest road in the Sosu district of Kunigami Village around 2 a.m. on May 13. According to a pr...
Two bull sharks found in Asato River [News]
Two young bull sharks were discovered in Asato River in Naha, May 8. Toshihiro Nakanishi, an Urasoe City worker spotted the two sharks, one 70 cm and the other about one meter long...
Free shuttle bus to run in southern Okinawa during summer season [News]
Six resort hotels located in southern part of Okinawa, and a number of marine leisure companies have collaborated to set up a free shuttle bus called “Minami Kaza-Go” to run a rout...
Man arrested for hitting one-year-old boy [News]
A 49-year-old man was arrested on suspicion of hitting a one-year-old boy whom his female friend had left into the man’s care while she was away for work, on Yonaguni Island. Polic...
Rainy season has started [News]
Okinawa’s annual rainy season has officially started one day later than last year and five days later than average. The Okinawa Metrological Agency declared the start of the ...
Communist media suggests Okinawa belongs to China [News]
An article in a Communist Party newspaper suggesting China has a claim over the Japanese prefecture of Okinawa reflects Beijing’s intention to rattle Japanese Prime Minister ...
2013.05.16
Hashimoto wants U.S. military members to use sex industry [News]
Osaka Mayor Toru Hashimoto has made comments throwing support behind the “comfort women” prostitution system created for Japanese soldiers during the wartime. “An...
2013.05.10
Ospreys delivered to Marine presidential helicopter squadron [News]
The helicopter squadron responsible for carrying the President of the United States and his staff, Marine Helicopter Squadron One, has received its first of 12 MV-22 Ospreys to be ...
2013.05.09
Habu snake captured on Miyako Island [News]
A Sakishima habu snake has been captured on Miyako Island by a resident, sending officials worrying about how it got to the southern Okinawa island. This is the first time a Sakish...
Brief hailstorm hits Ishigaki for first time in seven years [News]
The sounds of something striking buildings on Ishigaki Island –including preschools, primary and junior high schools and some businesses—frightened residents as it turned out to be...
Number of children creeps lower, but Okinawa is top [News]
The Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communications announced there are 16,490,000 children under 15 years old in Japan as of April 1, 2013, which is 150,000 less than a years ago....
Tourist dies in diving accident off Iheya Island [News]
Koichi Mizusawa, a visitor from Yokohama, Kanagawa Prefecture, died while he was diving off Iheya Island around 3 p.m., on May 4th. According to Nago Police investigating the incid...
Man dies in fire at Mihara [News]
Naha Fire Department had a call about smoke rising from a three-story concrete building in the Mihara district of Naha City at 6 a.m., May 1. Firefighters rushed to the scene, and ...
Rider in serious condition after crashing into taxi [News]
Shun Hirata, a university student from Naha City crashed into a taxi on Hwy 58 at the Isa Intersection at Isa district in Ginowan City at 23:20 on May 2. Hirata who drove a motorcy...
Opposition DPJ calls for dialogue on Senkakus [News]
Japan’s main opposition party is calling on the government to promote dialogue with China on maritime affairs in order to ease tensions between the two countries. The stateme...
2013.04.26
Chinese send surveillance ships into Japanese waters [News]
A total of eight Chinese marine surveillance ships entered Japanese territorial waters near the Senkaku Islands in Okinawa Prefecture Tuesday morning, the largest-scale intrusion s...
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