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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
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...
Naha Central Hotel opens East Tower [Business]
The Community & Spa Naha Central Hotel in Makishi, Naha City that has been under renovation since June celebrates the grand opening of the new 96-room extension building of the...
Missing python found in Naha [News]
A ball python that escaped its cage in a beauty shop in Matsuyama, Naha City was found it in the attic of the shop Saturday night. The shop owner found his 1.5-meter long python af...
Ishigaki unexploded bomb removed safely [News]
A British-made unexploded aerial bomb weighing 250 kg discovered during drainage repair work on prefectural road 79 in Ishigaki City, was safely removed on Saturday. The Japan Self...
Okinawa is in midst of flu epidemic [News]
The Ministry of Health announced Friday that the seasonal influenza epidemic has now spread throughout the country having began the second earliest after 2009 since the ministry st...
2016.11.29
Four consecutive losses drop Golden Kings down to 5th place [Ryukyu Golden Kings]
The Ryukyu Golden Kings played a pair of weekend road games in Kariya, Nagoya Prefecture against Seahorse Mikawa, the top placed team in the Western Conference, and were swiped bot...
Elderly driver crashes into convenience store [News]
A 78-year-old driver lost control of his car and crashed into a convenient store front in Matsuo, Naha, Thursday morning. According to Naha Police, the driver started his car that ...
Okinawans near bottom among online shoppers [Business]
According to a Japan Direct Marketing Association survey on the online shopping in Japan, the average annual amount a resident of Okinawa spends shopping online is ¥71,875 that put...
Calls to Okinawa crime victim support center Yui increase [News]
According to officials at Okinawa victims support center Yui, the center received 560 calls to their telephone consultation hotline in fiscal 2015 that is 139 more than the previou...
Wine sales in Okinawa grew 14-fold in 5 years [Business]
Although the quantity of wine imported from overseas to Okinawa and its cost are decreasing, the overall quantity of wine sales in the prefecture shot up 40 percent over the period...
Same sex couples to be able to apply for municipal housing [News]
Naha City is getting ready to accept applications for municipal housing from same sex couples who have registered their marriage with the municipal registration system for couples....
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