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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 48th anniversary of revers… [Politics]
May 15th marked the 48th anniversary of Okinawa’s reversion to the Japanese administration in 1972. According to published figures, the Japa...Read More
More foreign students submit refugee status applications [News]
A total of 7,586 foreign people submitted an application for refugee status in Japan in fiscal 2015, which is 8 times more than a decade ago. Among them, 1,413 were students who ap...
“Hometown Tax” nets ¥84.88 million for Okinawa [News]
Okinawa Prefecture Tax Affairs Section announced that the total amount of so called “Hometown tax” paid to the prefecture since Governor Takeshi Onaga took office a year and 10 mon...
Beni-imo Tart for our four-legged friends [Business]
One of the most popular “omiyage” from Okinawa is Beni-imo Tart, a pie based on the purple sweet potato grown on the island. Now you can remember you four-legged family member with...
570,000 to take center test for university admissions [News]
The National Center for University Admissions announced Wednesday that 575,966 students will take the annual center test for university admissions on Jan. 14 and 15. That is 12,198...
Naming rights for Nishihara Marine Park for sale [Business]
Okinawa Prefecture is looking for companies willing to bid for the naming rights of the Nishihara Marine Park in Nishihara Town. The deadline for the bids is Jan. 30th, 2017. The m...
2016.12.06
Kings swipe Sendai 89ers in pair of road games [Ryukyu Golden Kings]
Some smiles must have broken out on the faces of players and officials of the Ryukyu Golden Kings, as the team broke their row of four consecutive defeats in the road game series a...
Three Kings’ players picked for first B. League All Star Game [Sports]
The Japanese pro-basketball B. League just started this October, but it will hold its first All Star Game on Jan. 15th at Yoyogi National Arena in Tokyo. The voting by fans for pla...
Firefighter arrested on suspicion of DUI [News]
Naha Police arrested a man who works as a firefighter at the Western Okinawa Fire Department headquarters on suspicion of DUI, Monday. According to police, 51-year-old Hayashi Shim...
Sunday was warmest day ever in December in Naha [News]
The temperature in Naha rose to 28.2 degrees Celsius at 13:38 on Sunday, Dec. 4th, which is the highest ever recorded in December in Naha. The previous record was from 1914, 102 ye...
2016.12.05
Okinawa Expressway to close for nighttime bridge maintenance [News]
A part of Okinawa Expressway and Naha Airport Expressway will be closed south of Nishihara entrance/exit for four nights from 21:00 to 6:00 from Dec. 11th through 15th for bridge m...
Okinawa autumn, ocean warmest on record [News]
The Okinawa Meteorological Observatory announced Thursday that the average temperature in the prefecture this fall from September to November rose to 26.4 degrees centigrade that i...
60% of remote islands’ high school grads want to return [News]
According to an awareness survey by Okinawa General Bureau, about 60% of high school students now in the 3rd grade, who are planning to leave their homes on the remote islands of t...
Hot spring with view of Southern Cross to open on Iriomote [Business]
Haemi Kanko Co. is opening a hot spring facility in Haemi, Iriomote Island, in the southwestern corner of Okinawa Prefecture in January. The company aims to complete the constructi...
17-year-old boy killed in motorbike accident [News]
Two high school students riding on a 125cc motorbike crashed into a streetlight pole while driving on Highway 58 in Minatogawa, Urasoe City, early Wednesday morning. 17-year-old Wa...
Five arrested for forging marriage documents [News]
Tomigusuku and Okinawa Prefectural Police arrested five persons on Nov. 30, including 39-year-old Maria Leonora Matibug Shimabukuro, a Philippine national from Ibaraki prefecture, ...
19 people in Okinawa suffer from AIDS [News]
Okinawa Department of Public Health and Medical Care, Health and Longevity Division announced Thursday, the World AIDS Day, that the number of people in Okinawa suffering from full...
Onaga gives up on 2020 Tokyo Olympics kata contest [Sports]
Okinawa Governor Takeshi Onaga announced Tuesday afternoon that it would be very difficult to have the Kata Competition of karate of the 2020 Tokyo Olympic Games held in Okinawa. I...
Taxi rams into group of nursery school children [News]
A taxi rammed into a group nursery school children after being hit by a garbage truck in Tsukazan, Haebaru Town, Tuesday morning. According to police, the taxi was driving on natio...
Four Henoko demonstrators arrested for obstructing business [News]
Nago and Okinawa Prefectural Police arrested four men on Tuesday on suspicion of forcible obstruction of business. The four are suspected of piling some 1,400 concrete blocks at th...
Onaga continues to oppose deployment of Ospreys [Politics]
Okinawa Governor Takeshi Onaga faced the media on Monday for an interview just before the second anniversary of his forst term in the office. Onaga took over the Office of Governor...
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