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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
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 ...
ANA midnight flights popular choice during summer season [Business]
All Nippon Airlines (ANA) midnight flights between Haneda and Naha during the summer season have proven to be very popular among travelers. Called “Galaxy Flights,” ANA has had the...
U.S. airman arrested on suspicion of DUI [News]
A U.S. airman stationed on Kadena Air Base was arrested Shortly after midnight on Sunday on suspicion of driving under influence. According to Okinawa Prefectural Police, a police ...
Japanese Government to start repair work on MCAS Futenma [News]
The U.S. Government has long demanded that the Japanese government begins repair work on MCAS Futenma, where reportedly the runway and helicopter hangars are in bad shape. The U.S....
One dead, one in coma in weekend water accidents [News]
Two water-related accidents took place at northern Okinawa beaches over the weekend leaving one Korean tourist dead and a boy from Hyogo Prefecture in coma. A 32-year-old female to...
2016.08.22
George Washington Colonials smash Golden Kings 82-56 [Ryukyu Golden Kings]
The George Washington University Basketball team, the Colonials, visited Japan to play a series of international friendship matches from Aug. 13 to 21. The squad played three games...
Orion Beer exports booming, topped 2,488 kiloliters in 2015 [Business]
Orion Beer, the sole full-scale beer brewer on Okinawa, saw sales overseas in fiscal 2015 soar 41.5 percent from a year before. Orion exported a total of 2,488 kiloliters of its be...
2016.08.20
Golden Kings starting season with five new members [Ryukyu Golden Kings]
The new basketball league in Japan, the B.League, will start very soon, and the Golden Kings will match up with the basketball team of the George Washington University this weekend...
Miyako man arrested for attempted murder [News]
A local fisherman was arrested on suspicion of an attempted murder after he attacked another fisherman with a sickle at a meeting in Miyakojima City, Thursday. According to Miyako ...
Kinser military warehouses to be relocated to Chibana [News]
Okinawa City Mayor Sachio Kuwae has reportedly agreed to accept a plan to relocate the U.S. military warehouses on Camp Kinser to Kadena Ammunitions Storage Area in Chibana. Accord...
Nighttime traffic restriction to start for Kunigami forest road [News]
Kunigami Village is preparing to restrict motor vehicle traffic through a woodland road in the Yanbaru forest from sunset through sunrise starting Sep. 1st. The aim of the traffic ...
Okinawa City multipurpose sports hall construction starts [News]
The construction of a multipurpose sports hall on the site of the former outdoor swimming pool in the Koza Sports Park is starting this month. The new facility will have a total co...
U.S. Marine arrested on suspicion of DUI [News]
Naha Police arrested a 26-year-old U.S. Marine in Naha, early Wednesday morning, on suspicion of driving under influence. According to Naha Police, a police patrol stopped a car dr...
Caller claiming to be police fishes for bank info [News]
Suspicious calls from someone pretending to be an officer at the Okinawa Police Headquarters staff or Financial Services Agency staff were reported in three occasions in Naha and O...
Okinawa has had 2nd most tornadoes in Japan [News]
According to Japan Meteorological Agency, there has been 43 tornadoes in Okinawa Prefecture between 1991 and 2015, which is the second most in the nation next to Hokkaido’s 44. Oki...
Number of gas stations going downhill in Japan [Business]
The number of gas stations in Japan is decreasing, and is now about half what it was at its peak some 20 years ago. According to the Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry, there ...
IT industry in Okinawa generates ¥409 billion [Business]
According to a study by Okinawa prefecture, Okinawa’s information and communications industry generated a total of ¥409.911 billion in fiscal 2015. The industry is now the second l...
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