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・2/25 – 2/26 Yomitan Yachimun Market @ Farmers Market Yunta Ichiba in Yomitan village 10:00~17:00 Free to enter https://www.yomitan-sy...Read More
Pro-Baseball Spring Training 2023 [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
‘Year of the Rabbit’ 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
2017.01.06
Golden Kings swipe Levanga Hokkaido in weekend road game [Ryukyu Golden Kings]
The Ryukyu Golden Kings earned a much welcomed weekend swipe in their last pair of games of 2016 in a road game at Hokkai Kitaeru Sports Center in Sapporo, Hokkaido, on Dec. 30 and...
Okinawa schools have 71 female principals [News]
According to a human resource survey by Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology, there were 11,279 female executives in public schools nationwide as of 1 Apr...
Naha company starts direct export of awamori to U.S. [Business]
Okinawa Products Associated Co. Ltd., a Naha based trader of agricultural foods, is starting to export awamori directly to the U.S., the first time a local company is exporting the...
Children’s vision weaker, dental condition improves [News]
According to a Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology survey of school children’s health statistics, published Thursday, the portion of students in the nati...
False rumor of terrorism threat spreads on Okinawa [News]
A rumor of “a man from Afghanistan planning a terrorist attack in Mihama, Chatan Town” spread over the weekend among local residents in the central Okinawa. It seems that someone i...
Two nabbed for smuggling 15kg of gold from Taiwan [News]
Ishigaki Maritime Safety Agency and Okinawa Customs Ishigaki Branch Office arrested two Taiwanese nationals on suspicion of trying to smuggle gold into Japan without declaring it t...
Teenage boys in trouble, arrested over weekend [News]
Police arrested several teenage boys in two separate incidents over the Christmas weekend. Naha Police arrested a 15-year-old male junior high school student, on suspicion of forci...
2016.12.27
Kings woes continue with split weekend series [Ryukyu Golden Kings]
The Ryukyu Golden Kings faced Akita Northern Happinets in its Christmas game series last weekend. The result was a split series; the Kings won on Saturday and Happinets took the po...
Aja Elementary School brass band wins first prize [News]
The 4th National Brass Band Championships for elementary school bands was held Friday at Amity Hall in Nishinomiya, Hyogo Prefecture. Aja Elementary School brass band from Naha rep...
Angler drowns after washed into sea in Yonaguni [News]
An angler fishing from the shore drowned on Sunday after he was caught by a large wave and washed out to the sea off Yonaguni Island. 52-year-old Masami Kinjo had been fishing with...
Whale watching season off Zamami begins [News]
The season’s first humpback whale was observed off Zamami Island Sunday. A member of the Zamami Whale Watching Association was able to take a picture of the whale while it was swim...
Government cuts Okinawa Development Budget 6% for FY 2017 [News]
According to the draft state budget for the fiscal starting in April, the Japanese government has decided to cut the budget for the economic development of Okinawa by 6 percent to ...
Protest rally in Nago demands Ospreys out, stop to Henoko [News]
Speaking to a crowd of protesters in Nago, Thursday, Okinawa Governor Takeshi Onaga expressed his “unwavering resolve” to stop the flights of the U.S. Marine Corps’ MV-...
Record warm weather continues in Okinawa [News]
Dec. 21st was the Winter Solstice, but the weather in Okinawa was warm enough to bring out slight sweat. At Shimojijima Airport in Miyakojima City, it was observed 28.1 degrees cen...
Haebaru-Hanaui to be designated National Traditional Craft [News]
It is expected that “Haebaru-Hanaui”, a textile originated from Haebaru Town, will coon be designated a National Traditional Craft. Haebaru-Hanaui textiles are characterized with t...
Okinawa to open multi-language medical call center [News]
As the demand for medical emergency care for foreign tourists is increasing, Okinawa Prefecture Department of Culture, Tourism & Sports is opening a “Multilanguage Service Emer...
Kings go down to second weekend of defeat [Ryukyu Golden Kings]
Golden Kings’ archrival since the days of the now defunct bj-Legue, Osaka Evessa, handed the visiting Kings another pair of bitter defeats in the weekend road game at Ikeda City Gy...
Rescue teams dispatched 18,121 times in Naha during 2015 [News]
Naha Fire Department rescue teams were dispatched 18,121 times to a missions during the year 2015 that is the highest ever. That means that each of the fire department’s six rescue...
Queries to OCVB multi-language center increase [News]
Queries to the multi-language contact center managed by Okinawa Convention Bureau (OCVB) have been sharply increasing this year. The center reports that it received 4,276 queries f...
Ogimi Village Office worker nabbed for DUI [News]
Nago Police arrested 25-year-old Daichi Yamashiro, an Ogimi Village Office worker Monday, on suspicion of causing a traffic accident while driving under influence of alcohol. Accor...
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