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Obon is time for family gathering to rem… [CULTURE CURRENT ISSUE]
For three days starting on Tuesday, August 25th through Thursday, August 27th, many privately owned businesses on Okinawa will close their ...Read More
Day of Naha: Immerse Yourself in the Cap… [Community CURRENT ISSUE]
July 8th is Naha Day in Okinawa. This special occasion originated from the use of play-on-words or rather, a play-on-numbers. Naha’s two syl...Read More
June 23rd, Okinawa’s Peace Memorial Day [CURRENT ISSUE]
June 23rd is ‘Irei-no Hi’. This is Okinawa’s Peace Memorial Day. It is a prefectural holiday formally recognized in 1961. It is to memoriali...Read More
Taiwanese mother and baby released from hospital, return to Taiwan [News]
A 20-year-old Taiwanese woman who gave birth prematurely while visiting Okinawa and her baby boy returned to Taiwan Wednesday evening. She had pay ¥8.5 million in medical costs bec...
OCVB multilingual tourist info inquiries increased 9% in 2016 [News]
Okinawa Convention and Visitors Bureau (OCVB) announced an analysis of the usage of its multilingual contact center for foreign tourists in 2016. According to the analysis, the cen...
Arcade Resort Okinawa Hotel & Café open in Okinawa City [News]
The Arcade Resort Okinawa Hotel & Café, a facility built in renovated vacant stores in the Ichibankan shopping arcade in Okinawa City, and managed by a nonprofit organization “...
Police warn women on increasing sexual assault incidents [News]
Okinawa Prefectural Police is warning women to be careful when they walk alone, especially when entering deserted areas late in the evening, as there has been 27 reported incidents...
Yamauchi named MVP at Asian Women’s Volleyball C’ships [Sports]
Misaki Yamauchi, the captain of Japan Women’s National U-23 Volleyball Team from Itoman, was awarded the Individual MVP Award for the second Asian Women’s Volleyball U-23 Champions...
2017.05.25
Norio Sassa to replace Tsutomu Isa as King’s head coach [Ryukyu Golden Kings]
Tsutomu Isa, the current head coach of the Ryukyu Golden Kings will leave his position at the end of this season. He will pass the helm to Norio Sassa, currently an assistant coach...
Okinawa City taxi driver arrested for hit and run [News]
Okinawa Police arrested a 75-year-old taxi driver, Monday, on suspicion of negligent driving resulting in injury and leaving the scene of an accident. According to police, taxi dri...
Over 20 million passengers go through Naha Airport [News]
More than 20 million passengers went through the domestic and international terminals of Naha Airport during fiscal 2016. It marks the first time the total number of passengers exc...
Japan’s oldest human bones excavated on Ishigaki Island [News]
The Okinawa Buried Cultural Property Investigation Center announced Friday that human bones from the Old Stone Age were excavated from the Shiraho Saonetabaru Cave. The archaeologi...
Okinawan Daigo Higa wins flyweight World Champion title [Sports]
The World Boxing Council flyweight title match was held on the night of May 20 at Ariake Coliseum in Tokyo. In the fight, 21-year-old Daigo Higa from Okinawa faced 30-year-old Juan...
Correspondence school planned for Yonaguni [News]
Yonaguni Town and Cabinet Office are reportedly preparing for a plan to build a correspondence upper secondary school on the island. A demonstration experiment to conduct trial les...
Long waiting time at airport irks rental car users [News]
A survey on the congestion at Naha Airport conducted by Okinawa Prefecture in 2016, found that it takes up to two hours to rent a car after arriving at Naha Airport during the summ...
Two police resign after subject of disciplinary action [News]
The Okinawa Prefectural Police Inspection Division suspended a 33-year-old male police sergeant serving at Ginowan Police Station for six months from duty on May 18th as a discipli...
Car rentals by foreign tourists at highest rate ever [News]
A study by Okinawa Rent-a-car Association found that the number of car rentals by foreign tourists in 2016 was 207,970 that is a record high for the third consecutive year. By nati...
Man arrested after setting two police officers on fire [News]
Ishikawa Police arrested a 51-year-old man after he poured flammable liquid on two police officers, who went to arrest him on another charge, and set them on fire on Wednesday. One...
Rains fell big banyan tree at Futenma Shrine [News]
Torrential rains hit Okinawa main island from early morning Tuesday due to a seasonal rain front. According to the Okinawa Meteorological Observatory, 107.5 millimeters rain was re...
Disney mulling to build hotel in Ginowan [News]
Oriental Land, the company operating Tokyo Disneyland, has reportedly had discussions with Ginowan City officials about a plan to build a resort hotel on the returned land within s...
Assistant principal arrested for taking photos up woman’s skirt [News]
Uruma Police arrested Monday an assistan principal of a junior high school on suspicion of taking a photo up a woman’s skirt in a convenience store in Taba, Uruma City. According t...
Yusaku Miyazato wins PGA Championship in Kise [Sports]
Golfer Yusaku Miyazato came from behind on the last day of the 85th PGA Championship Nissin Noodles Cup at Kise Country Club in Nago to win the tournament, Sunday. This was his sec...
2,253 children on waiting list for nursery schools [News]
A study by Okinawa Child Care Support Division published on Monday, found 2,253 children in the prefecture were on waiting lists to get into publicly certified nursery schools as o...
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