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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
Okinawa marks 54th anniversary of revers… [Politics]
May 15th marked the 54th anniversary of Okinawa’s reversion to the Japanese administration in 1972. According to published figures, the Japa...Read More
2013.10.29
Golden Kings snag pair of home court wins [Ryukyu Golden Kings]
Okinawa’s professional basketball squad is currently third in the Basketball Japan League’s Western Division, but with play like they demonstrated against visiting Rizing Fukuoka, ...
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...
2013.10.28
Going 4 x 4 off road is not about speed [Sports]
If you are an owner of a Toyota Surf, Jimny or a Pajero, with a few modifications you could be ready to explore off-the-beaten track roads in Okinawa. Driving around Okinawa 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...
2013.10.24
And this week’s winner is… [Weekly Winners]
Jennifer DeWitt was the lucky winner who won last week’s JU raffle. The prize was a pair of tickets to I Musici ensemble performance of classical music at Okinawa Civic Hall. I Mus...
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...
Air Asia becomes Vanilla Air, expands to Naha-Narita route [Business]
AirAsia Japan airline President Tomonori Ishii announced Monday that the company is changing its name to Vanilla Air from Nov. 1st. In addition to announcing the name change, Ishii...
2013.10.21
Golden Kings split tough series in Shiga [Ryukyu Golden Kings]
Okinawa’s professional basketball squad didn’t find Shiga Prefecture all that friendly an environment over the weekend, battling from behind to win the first game of their series a...
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 ...
AJ Resort Island Ikei to open in April [Business]
Shigeharu Miyagi, the president of Ajast Co., Ltd. housing agency and Ikei Landowners’ Association Chairman Masanori Tamaki announced Oct. 19th that they have signed a contract to ...
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...
U.S. offers promises to victims of military crimes [Military]
Some new rules on how victims of crimes purportedly committed by American service personnel in Japan are informed, are coming to light through the Japanese Foreign Minister. Tokyo ...
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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