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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
Okinawa experiences record hot summer 2016 [News]
Okinawa experiences record hot summer Average temperature in Okinawa Prefecture during the three summer months from June to August was the highest on record, according to Okinawa M...
Rescuing child’s life earns letters of appreciation to two students [News]
Motobu Police has sent letters of appreciation to Kohei Higa and Ryudo Kato, for their rapid and effective rescue work. When the two men were swimming off Kouri Beach in Nakijin Vi...
New electric power retailer to start business in October [Business]
Okinawa Gas New Power, a new electric power retailer established in April as a joint venture of Okinawa Gas of Naha City and eREX CO. Ltd. of Tokyo, is scheduled to begin electric ...
National Tree Planting Ceremony for first time in Okinawa in 2019 [News]
The National Land Afforestation Promotion Organization decided in its general meeting on Tuesday in Tokyo to hold the 2019 National Tree Planting Ceremony in Okinawa. This marks th...
Okinawan mango wine earns four top prizes [News]
Mango Wine, made by Uchina Farm in Itoman, was awarded four prizes including the “Partum Gold Prize,” the top prize, at Asia’s largest wine competition “Japan Wine Challenge 2016”....
Okinawa collects ¥336.5 billion in taxes in 2015 [Business]
According to Okinawa National Tax Agency, the total tax receipts in the prefecture in fiscal 2015 were ¥336.531 billion, which is 11.5% or ¥34.805 billion higher than the year befo...
Friendship on LINE leads to attempted murder [News]
A friendship between two young women that they struck using a popular communications app LINE turned sour after the women met in person, and started an argument that ended with one...
Okinawa hotel occupancy rate, revenues increasing [Business]
A report from the Okinawa Development Finance Corporation, published on Aug. 26, says the occupancy rate of 71 major hotels in Okinawa in fiscal 2015 increased from the year before...
Cracked window forces ANA flight to land at Naha [News]
A cockpit window of an All Nippon Airways Boeing 787 airliner on its way from Haneda to Singapore developed a crack when the aircraft was flying over Ishigaki Island at about 3:10 ...
Agreement reached to fix Yui Rail elevators [News]
A fight among bureaucrats concerning who’d foot the bill to repair malfunctioning elevators at two stations on Okinawa Urban Monorail Line “Yui Rail” has been resolved, and the pub...
TripAdvisor names best 20 Japanese Castles [News]
TripAdvisor, the world’s largest travel review website, announced the results of voting by the site’s users for the best 20 castles in Japan in 2016. From Okinawa, Nakagusuku Castl...
Officials warn of bacterial risk in river activities [News]
As the long hot summer of Okinawa continues, the Prefecture Health and Longevity Division is calling for public’s attention to a risk of being infected by leptospirosis, a bacteria...
Chatan fire station beefs up high-rise rescue capability [News]
Chatan’s Nirai Fire Department has concluded a cooperative agreement with Kinko Jyuki, Okinawa’s largest heavy equipment leasing company, to secure the use of a crane truck with a ...
Part of Camp Hansen to be returned to Okinawa [News]
Officials at Okinawa Defense Bureau have reportedly informed Nago City that a 55-hectare parcel of city-owned land now belonging to Camp Hansen in Kouki, Nago City, would be return...
Coast Guard gets ¥67.4 billion to beef up Senkaku security [News]
The Japanese Government has appropriated in its second supplementary budget of fiscal 2016 a total of ¥67.4 billion to Japan Coast Guard. The money is earmarked to strengthen secur...
JA starts shipping earliest Satsuma Mikan oranges [News]
JA Okinawa shipped Tuesday the season’s first Satsuma Mikan oranges from the Einoushinkou Center in Nago City. The shipment was the earliest in all of Japan. Officials at JA say th...
Governor to hold regular press conference Thursday [News]
Governor Takeshi Onaga is having a regular press conference at the Prefectural Office tomorrow (Thu), the first in a year and 3 months. Onaga has held the regular press conference ...
New company to develop Urasoe monorail Station [News]
Urasoe City has established a holding company called Urasoe Smart City Infrastructure Development Co, Ltd. to advance development along the extension of the Okinawa Urban Monorail ...
Typhoon Lionrock takes unusual route to Okinawa [News]
This year has been a little extraordinary, as there has been no typhoon so far. However, the 10th typhoon of the season seems to be closing in, but from an unorthodox direction. Th...
Robber takes million at knifepoint in Itoman [News]
Itoman Police is hunting for a man who entered a café in Nishizaki late Thursday evening, just when the café was about to close, and threatening the sole worker at the café with a ...
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