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‘Year of the Dragon’ begins in Okinawan … [CULTURE CURRENT ISSUE]
Legend has it that Buddha asked all animals to meet him on the Chinese New Year. Twelve came, and Buddha named a year after each one, and an...Read More
Pro-Baseball Spring Training 2024 [Family Sports]
Okinawa is the southernmost prefecture in Japan, and that means it’s the warmest place in the country in the wintertime. Because of that, ma...Read More
OkiEvents this Week!! [CURRENT ISSUE ENTERTAINMENT Festival]
・11/3~11/5 Shuri Castle Restoration Festival @ Shuri Castle 10:00~ https://oki-park.jp/shurijo/en/event/8414 PIN: https://maps.app.goo.gl/Qj...Read More
Company demonstrates hand-held translation device [News]
Logbar Inc., a Tokyo company that is known as a developer of “Ring Zero,” the world’s smallest input device, and “ili,” a wearable translator device held a demonstration of the tra...
Two new orchid species found in Yambaru forest [News]
Kenji Suetsugu, an assistant professor at Kobe University Graduate School of Science, discovered two new species of orchids in a northern Okinawa forest. He named the new species “...
Means to fight crown of thorns starfish may be at hand [News]
A research team of Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology Graduate University (OIST) has found that it’s a possibility that acanthasters, usually known as crown of thorns star...
Quarter of Okinawan men never marry [News]
It seems that marriage is losing its luster among Japanese despite of the best efforts by the government worried about the declining birthrate and shrinking population. According a...
CPoint Next helps foreign students to find jobs [News]
CPoint Next, a Tida Square group company, is helping foreign students who study at universities in Okinawa to find jobs. The company opened a website last December to introduce for...
Monorail Asahibashi station complex to open in 2018 [News]
The full image of the commercial complex currently under construction on the former Naha Bus Terminal site and adjacent to Monorail Asahibashi Station scheduled to open in 2018, wa...
Naha’s old Sogen-ji temple also found defaced [News]
Naha City Office staff discovered Monday that someone had sprayed oil-like substance on the first gate and other parts of Sogen-ji temple ruins, and reported the case to police the...
Cruise Liner “Genting Dream” makes first visit to Okinawa [News]
“Genting Dream,” one of the largest premium cruise ships in Asia, weighing 153,000 tons and with passenger capacity of 3,400 people, docked at Naha Port for the in first time at 3:...
Company bankruptcies at 40-year low in Okinawa [News]
According to Tokyo Shoko Research, Okinawa branch, 47 companies in Okinawa with liabilities over ¥10 million went bankrupt in fiscal 2016. The number is 14 less than the previous y...
Okinawan boxer to flight in World Championship match [Sports]
Okinawan 21-year-old Daigo Higa, the current Oriental and Pacific Boxing Federation (OPBF) flyweight class champion and the No.1 in his weight class on the World Boxing Council lis...
People in Okinawa least interested in Hanami [News]
Hanami, or viewing of flowers, is one of Japan’s age-old traditions, in which people gather to view flowers, most famously cherry blossoms, and party under the trees in parks durin...
Shuri Castle sites defaced with oil-like substance [News]
A security guard at Shuri Castle noticed that someone had sprayed oil-like sticky substance on a pillar of the Shrurei-mon gate at Shuri Castle sometime between Apr. 2nd and 3rd. F...
2017.04.05
After weekend sweep, Kings catapult to 2nd place in the Western Conference [Ryukyu Golden Kings]
Last weekend, The Golden Kings swept the Nagoya Diamond Dolphins at home in Okinawa City. In doing so, the Kings catapulted from fifth to second place in the Western Conference sta...
Bands invited to audit for Peaceful Love Rock Festival [News]
The annual Okinawa City tradition “Peaceful Love Tock Festival” is again gearing up and organizers are inviting bands to the audition of the “34th Peaceful Love Rock Festival 2017....
Regular flights between Daegu and Naha begin [News]
T’Way Airlines, a Korean low cost carrier, started a regular flight service between Daegu and Naha on Apr. 2nd, with 185 passengers onboard on the inaugural flight from Daegu. Miss...
Awamori shipments down for 12th year in row [News]
The Okinawa Awamori Distillers’ Association announced Mar. 31st that its member companies had shipped a total of 18,964 kiloliters of Awamori in 2016, a 2.9 percent decrease from t...
Okinawa residents’ average income up 1.4% in 2014 [News]
Okinawa Prefecture Government Department of Planning and Statistics Division has announced an overview of residents’ income in fiscal 2014. According to the overview, the average i...
DUI rap dropped against man pushing motorcycle [News]
The Naha District Public Prosecutors Office dropped DUI charges against a man in his 40’s living in Naha City, who was arrested by Okinawa Prefectural Police in October last year, ...
Ryubo planning “Small World” theme park [News]
Ryubo Industries Ltd., the operator of Ryubo department stores and supermarkets on Okinawa, is planning to open a theme park in the southern part of the island that features miniat...
Hotels nearly full for June 17 AKB48 General Election event [News]
The 9th AKB48 “General Election” event scheduled for Chura Sun Beach in Tomigusuku City on Jun. 17th looks to become a bonanaza to travel agencies and local hotels that report bein...
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