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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
Elderly man dies after knocked down by bus [News]
An elderly man died after being knocked down by a bus while trying to cross a street in Tomari, Naha City, Monday evening. According to Naha Police, 93-year-old Shigeru Miyasato wa...
Okinawa birth rate Japan’s highest 42 years in row [News]
Okinawa Prefecture Public Health and Medical Policy Division made public the demographic statistics in Okinawa on fiscal 2016 on Monday. Regarding the rate of births per 1,000 in r...
Golf caddie saves player’s life by using AED [News]
A golf caddie saved a player who suffered a heart attack while playing. Satomi Honda, a 23-year-old caddie, saved the player’s life after he suffered a cardiac arrest and fell down...
Onaga accepts military port move to Urasoe [News]
Okinawa Governor Takeshi Onaga stated at a Prefectural regular November assembly meeting Friday that he would accept the move of the U.S. Military Port facility in Naha to Urasoe. ...
4-car crash leaves 7-year-old girl dead [News]
A 28-year-old driver attempting to overtake two cars in front of him caused a 4-car crash that left a 7-year-old girl dead Sunday. According to Ginowan Police, the accident happene...
Peach to start direct Naha-Bangkok flights [Business]
Peach Aviation announced Friday that it is starting direct flights between Naha and Bangkok from Feb.19, 2017. The company is scheduled to fly one round trip per day on the route. ...
2016.12.13
Double loss puts Kings back to 5th place in conference [Ryukyu Golden Kings]
Over the weekend, the Ryukyu Golden Kings encountered one of the strongest and most popular teams in the B. Legue, Tochigi Brex, on the Kings’ home court in Okinawa City Gym....
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...
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...
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