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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
Newspaper carrier arrested for driving under influence [News]
Naha Police arrested a 51-year-old newspaper carrier on suspicion of driving under influence in Shuri, Naha. According to police, Hiroshi Arakaki, a newspaper carrier for Ryukyu Sh...
Okinawa forecast to enter extra warm weather spell [News]
All 28 observation spots of Okinawa Meteorological Observatory recorded temperatures higher than 25 degrees Celsius on Monday that is extraordinarily warm for this time of the year...
Orion Beer inviting people for Kerama beach clean-ups [News]
Orion Beer is calling for participants for its “Southern Star Beach Cleaning Project” that includes beach clean-ups at Aharen beach in Tokashiki Village this Saturday (Nov.19), and...
First-class hotel planned for Minatogawa, Urasoe [Business]
A mainland developer has proposed building the first first-class hotel in Urasoe on the reclaimed land off Camp Kinser. According to a plan by property developer Takara Create base...
Okinawa population in 2015 rises to 1,433,566 [News]
The Okinawa Prefecture Department of Planning finished Friday the summary of population and number of households in the prefecture by the municipality based on the census of 2015. ...
Two U.S. servicemen nabbed on suspicion of DUI [News]
Two U.S. servicemen were arrested on suspicion of DUI in two separate cases Friday night and Saturday morning. 29-year-old U,S. Army Staff Sergeant stationed on Torii Station was a...
Naha Airport operates ¥3.3 billion in red [Business]
The Ministry of Land, Infrastructure and Transportation announced Tuesday its estimate of the balance of payments for FY2015 for the 27 national airports. The total aggregated busi...
60% of high school grads leave job within 3 years [Business]
Okinawa Department of Labor says that about 60% of high school and 40% of college graduates in Okinawa who graduated in March 2013 and started working left their jobs within three ...
OIST student magazine publishes first issue [News]
Students of Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology Graduate University (OIST) recently launched the first issue of the school student magazine “KUROSHIO”. Articles in the firs...
2016.11.10
Slackline challenges sense of balance and provides good workout [Sports]
Slacklining is one of the new trends of street workouts that is gaining popularity in various parts of the world including Japan. Persons engaged in slacklining walk or balance alo...
2016.11.10
Free presentation on library systems [CURRENT ISSUE]
Sari Feldman, the president of American Library Association, is presenting a special lecture “Library Transform” at ANA Crowne Plaza Okinawa Harborview Hotel in Naha, on Nov. 11. T...
San-A, PARCO join forces for giant shopping mall [Business]
Tessei Uechi, the president of San-A, one of the largest supermarket chains in Okinawa, and Kozo Makiyama, the president of PARCO, one of the largest commercial building developers...
Two men suspected of illegal waste disposal [News]
Two men, the owner of an industrial waste disposal company and his former employee, are suspected of illegally disposing of waste from local businesses on a roadside on Irabu Islan...
Four houses destroyed by fire in Mihara, Naha [News]
A fire in the Mihara district of Naha City destroyed four private and vacant houses around noon on Monday. An emergency call reporting smoke from the houses from a nearby resident ...
Reyshawn Terry joins Ryukyu Golden Kings [Ryukyu Golden Kings]
The Ryukyu Golden Kings signed Nov. 7 a contract with Reyshawn Terry, a native of North Carolina, to play with the team as a forward. His first appearance on the court will be the ...
Churashima Foundation takes over historical Mie Restaurant [Business]
Okinawa Churashima Foundation announced Friday the establishing of a new company, “Ryukyu Food Culture Research Co.” in Kumoji, Naha City that will take over the management of “Mie...
New ideas mulled to ease Naha traffic congestion [News]
Okinawa Prefecture reportedly considers introducing a “Park and Ride” plan, that would allow people traveling to Naha from the central parts of the island park their cars at Aeon R...
Radio-controlled model plane fatally crashes into operator [News]
The operator of a radio-controlled model plane was killed Sunday afternoon when the place crashed on his face in the Haebaru district of Katsuren, Uruma City. According to Uruma Po...
Unexploded bomb found at Ishigaki road work site [News]
Workers unearthed a WWII-era unexploded bomb with a fuse intact during a maintenance work on a drainpipe on prefectural road 79 in Ohkawa, Ishigaki City. A crew from the Japan Grou...
2016.11.07
Osaka beats Kings in weekend series [Ryukyu Golden Kings]
Osaka Evessa greased the floor with the Golden Kings on Saturday in front of the King’s home crowd, and the added insult to injury by scoring the winning points in the Sunday match...
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