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Okinawa Expressway Renewal Work Starts J… [CURRENT ISSUE LIFE Living]
NEXCO, the company operating the Okinawa Expressway announces that Expressway renewal works start from January 6th to April 28th in 2026 bet...Read More
Itoman Tug-of-War marks end of summer [CULTURE CURRENT ISSUE ENTERTAINMENT]
Many Okinawan farmers and fishermen, in some form or fashion, pay tribute to the Gods, seeking their blessing and favor for a great harvest ...Read More
Awamori "Ku-su" Day [CURRENT ISSUE LIFE]
September 4th is the “Ku-su Day”, with September = ‘9’ which is pronounced ‘kyu’ or ‘ku’ in Japanese, and ‘4’ being pronounced ‘...Read More
2013.08.08
And this week’s winner is… [Weekly Winners]
Joy Froio from Glendale, AZ, is the lucky winner of the week’s JU raffle. She won a pair of tickets to the Yubikiri Horror House currently open in Ashibinaa Outlet Mall that is sur...
New MV-22 Osprey squadron arrives Okinawa [Military]
Two MV-22 Osprey tilt-rotor aircraft, the first assigned to the second MV-22 squadron to Okinawa and Japan, has landed at Marine Corps Air Station Futenma, Japan. The aircraft, par...
Elderly bicyclist killed when hit by motorcycle [News]
A big scooter-type motorcycle driven by a 19-year-old man from Chatan Town hit 81-year-old Munesada Machida of Kadena Town, who was riding on a bicycle, on Hwy 58 at the Mizugama c...
Hottest day of year in Naha on Aug. 2 [News]
Okinawa Island basking under clear blue skies and scorching sun brought by a stable high-pressure front recorded the hottest day of the year on Aug. 2 when the temperature in Naha ...
Man drowns as his boat capsizes [News]
A fisherman discovered a man floating on the ocean about 450 meters off Kudaka Island in Nanjo City about 1 p.m., on Aug. 1. The drowned man was identified as the owner of pleasure...
USAF chopper crash stirs Okinawans [News]
The crash of a U.S. Air Force helicopter Monday on Camp Hansen in northeastern Okinawa has stirred Okinawans, who are again calling American aircraft as being too dangerous to be o...
MICE tourists number over 80,000 [News]
MICE (Meetings, Incentives, Conferencing, Exhibitions) events at Okinawa Convention Center and Bankoku Shinryokan reached 531 in 2012, which was a 9.3% increase from the year befor...
Ruling BJL champs to get new coach [Sports]
The Yokohama B-Corsairs, who snared the Basketball Japan League championship in only its second year in existence, has promoted its assistant coach to the top spot. Michael Katsuhi...
Fukuoka Rizing hires former Chinese league star as new coach [Sports]
Only a week after the Yokohama B-Corsairs named a new head coach, the Fukuoka Rizing has done the same, reaching out to Texas for a former Chinese Basketball Association star. The ...
Chinese Coast Guard enters Japanese waters first time [News]
It was another first for the Chinese, sailing four of its Cost Guard vessels into Japanese territory for the first time, swapping warnings with Japanese Coast Guard patrol ships. T...
2013.08.02
Chinese plane’s southern islands fly-by prompts Japanese scramble [News]
The Japanese Defense Ministry has scrambled jet fighters after a Chinese surveillance aircraft flew for the first time near southern Okinawa islands. The jets were scrambled after ...
2013.08.02
Nago City Mayor’s Cup Inter-Business Dragon Boat Race [Sports]
The 35thNago City Mayor’s Cup All Okinawa Inter-Business Dragon Boat Race is scheduled on August 4th, Sunday, 2013 at Nago Fishery Harbor. The city annually hosts this tournament i...
Naha city starts free WiFi service [News]
Naha City announced on July 27that they will start a free WiFi service “NAHA-City-WiFi” at 115 points within the city, and also start a Naha restaurant portal website called “NAHAP...
227 new charging spots for electric vehicles [News]
Okinawa Prefecture announced plans to install new charging stations for electric vehicles throughout Okinawa in the near future. The project calls for installing a total of 227 EV ...
Beach staff recognized for rescuing man adrift off Kitanashiro Beach [News]
On July 22, Itoman Police awarded a Certificate of Appreciation to Yuta Arakaki and Koushi Nakata who work on the beach staff of Bibi Beach in Itoman City, for rescuing a man who w...
Jet Star air tickets available at Lawson [Business]
The low cost carrier Jet Star Japan celebrates its first anniversary of starting Jet Star aviation business in Japan, and celebrates the occasion by starting a new service where cu...
2013.08.01
And this week’s winner is… [Weekly Winners]
This week’s winner of JU raffle is Polly Shafer who hails from a small town in Arkansas and has lived on Okinawa about one and half years. She is scheduled to be here until 2014. P...
American claiming to be U.S. military man arrested [News]
The Naha police arrested a man, who claims to be a 34-year-old U.S. Air Force member named Michael Steven Jerald, Sunday, on suspicion of attacking a bar owner in the Matsuyama dis...
Ginowan bomb disposal forces 1,645 to evacuate [News]
A WWII-era 250kg U.S.-made bomb was discovered and disposed of at a building construction site in the Ganeko district of Ginowan City, Sunday. 692 households and 70 companies are l...
50 junk cars burn in Haebaru [News]
The Okinawa East Main Fire Department received a call from a worker at a junkyard reporting that a fire had broken out and junk cars were burning on the junkyard in the Yonaha dist...
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