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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
One drunk driver suspect arrested in crackdown [News]
Okinawa Prefecture Police conducted a crackdown at 36 points of Okinawan main roads and Okinawa Expressway exits from midnight of Feb. 15th trough the morning of the 16th. Around 2...
Defibrillators to be installed in Naha convenience stores [News]
Naha City will install AED (Automated External Defibrillator) machines to all 24-hour convenience stores in Naha City by the end of March. There are a total of 118 24-hour convenie...
Military revamps Okinawa liberty regulations [Military]
The late evening curfew has been rescinded for many service members in Okinawa, but the restrictions on off-base alcohol consumption remains in effect. That’s the essence of the ne...
2013.02.22
Golden Kings stunned by Susanoo Magic [Ryukyu Golden Kings]
A shocking 68-67 loss to the Susanoo Magic Saturday night in Matsue got the Ryukyu Golden Kings weekend off to a terrible start, and it didn’t get any better on Sunday. Riding high...
2013.02.22
New faces claim victory in Okinawa Marathon [Sports]
The “regulars” at the Okinawa Marathon were nowhere to be found Sunday, as winners and other top finishers were all new to the victory podium. Tomonori Onizuka of Saga Prefecture c...
2013.02.22
First Tenkaichi Super Fight of 2013 on Mar. 3 [Sports]
The largest fighting event in Okinawa, the “Tenkaichi Super Fight” makes its first appearance of the year March 3rd in Okinawa City. This fight featuring four main events, will be ...
2013.02.22
Minister of Foreign Affairs visits Marine Corps Bases on Okinawa [News]
Fumio Kishida, the Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Government of Japan visited Marine Corps Installations and met with key leaders from the Marine Corps to include Maj. Gen. Pet...
2013.02.22
Foreign Minister visits: Fumio Kishida tells Governor “Tokyo’s listening” [Politics]
Japanese Foreign Minister Fumio Kishida has visited Okinawa, where he’s met with Okinawa Governor Hirokazu Nakaima to ask for his understanding of the central government’s pl...
ANA wins Airline of the Year honors [News]
All Nippon Airways has been chosen 2013 Airline of the Year by Air Transport World, the global airline industry’s leading monthly magazine. Washington-based Air Transport World has...
Ginoza to begin officially recording Osprey noise [Military]
Ginoza Village has become the first municipality on Okinawa to officially monitor the noise levels caused by the Marines’ Osprey MV-22 aircraft. Ginoza officials say that they plan...
Trespassing Marine arrested from Ginowan home rooftop [News]
Only days after the Marines’ senior leadership on Okinawa lifted a curfew instituted last fall in the wake of a rape incident, a drunken Marine has been arrested by Japanese police...
2013.02.16
And this week’s winner is… [Weekly Winners]
Alisa McLeish is the lucky person who won a pair of tickets to a Ryukyu Golden Kings basketball match in last week’s JU raffle. Alisa is from Washington DC, and has lived on Okinaw...
Man arrested for old case of attempted robbery [News]
Man arrested for old case of attempted robbery Better late than never could be the slogan Okinawa City Police are humming as they nabbed a suspect in a robbery attempt of a conveni...
Couple nabbed for stealing to pay for tourist trip [News]
Ginowan Police announced that a husband and wife from Tochigi Prefecture who were arrested for shoplifting in a large supermarket in Okinawa, were found to have stolen 370 items in...
Truck flips on its side injuring young unlicensed driver [News]
A 18-year-old high school student without a driver’s license lost control of a light truck he was driving on prefectural road 85 in Yaejima, Okinawa City, about 9:40 p.m. Friday. T...
2011 tsunami floats Miyagi mailbox to Iriomote [News]
A mailbox that seems that to have drifted from Minami-Sanriku Town in Miyagi prefecture as a result of the Great Kanto Earthquake and Tsunami was found at the seashore at northeast...
2013.02.14
Golden Kings make it four-in-a-row [Ryukyu Golden Kings]
The powerful Ryukyu Golden Kings were no match for the Miyazaki Shining Suns, who were convincingly swept under the rug twice in two days at the Okinawa City Gym last weekend. Okin...
2013.02.14
Gima ousted in Urasoe City mayoral election [News]
The three-term incumbent mayor of Urasoe City was turned out of office Sunday, to be replaced by a relative youngster who’s vowing to make changes on everything from the U.S. milit...
Chinese vessel locks radar lock on Japanese ship [News]
The escalating tensions in the Senkaku group of islands in the East China Sea in southwestern Okinawa ratcheted another notch as a Chinese Navy frigate locked its weapons-targeting...
U.S. takes Japan’s side in China radar issue [Politics]
Japan’s allegation that China “lit up” its weapons-guiding radar twice last month against a Japanese vessel and a helicopter has the U.S. agreeing with Japan that the incidents act...
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