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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
Okinawa Expressway Renewal Work Starts J… [CURRENT ISSUE]
NEXCO, the company operating the Okinawa Expressway announces that Expressway renewal works start from January 9th in 2024 to late April in ...Read More
Mihama aims to become largest mid-island resort hub [Business]
Chatan Town presented Jun. 17th a plan to public to develop the Mihama district of the town into the largest resort area of the middle part of Okinawa. In order to achieve the goal...
Prison guard suspended for stealing prepaid pachinko card [News]
Okinawa prison announced Jun. 17th that a male guard of the prison has been suspended for two months as a disciplinary action after he was found to have stolen a prepaid pachinko c...
Big demonstration against U.S. military presence held at Onoyama [News]
According to organizers, about 65,000 people took part in a rally held on Sunday at Onoyama Park in Naha, to protest the recent rape and murder of a 20-year-old woman in Uruma. A s...
2016.06.20
International Sports Day wants participants [Sports]
Ginowan City International Friendship Exchange Association and Okinawa NGO Center are organizing a Global Sports Day on Saturday, Jul. 2. The event will take place at Ginowan City ...
Urasoe seaside bypass road to open in 2017 [News]
Okinawa General Bureau announced that the Urasoe seaside bypass road, now under the construction on a landfill off Camp Kinser, will open in 2017. The road consists of two parts, a...
McDonald’s introduces shake made of Okinawan pineapples [News]
Fast food chain Japan McDonalds will start serving “McShake Okinawa Pineapple” shake in all McDonald’s restaurants in Japan from Jun. 22nd. The item will be sold for a limited time...
Rainy season ends [News]
Okinawa Metrological Agency declared the end of the rainy season in Okinawa on Thursday. This year, the rainy season ended about a week earlier than the average, which is Jun. 23rd...
Government’s Okinawa safety patrols started [News]
The first safety teams set up by the Japanese government began patrolling low-traffic areas in local communities close to U.S. Military installations on Jun. 15th. The government i...
Body found off Ginowan coast [News]
The body of an unidentified male was found off the shore of Ujidomari, Ginowan City, Monday afternoon. According to Ginowan police, a construction worker discovered the body floati...
Fifth Iriomote wildcat killed this year [News]
An Iriomote wildcat, a designated national treasure in Japan, was hit and killed by a car on Route 215 on Iriomote Island, Monday. The cat became the 5th killed in a road accident ...
Heavy rain, flash floods hit southern Okinawa [News]
A passing rain front brought heavy downpour to Okinawa main island on Monday and Tuesday, Jun. 13 and 14. The Okinawa Metrological Agency issued a heavy rain and flash flood warnin...
Kunigami firefighters rescue group of stranded Americans [News]
A group of 18 Americans was stranded on a hiking trail close to Ta Waterfall in Ogimi Village, Sunday afternoon, after a flash flood of Henan River cut their return path. Heavy rai...
Part-time prefecture employee arrested for DUI [News]
Okinawa City police arrested a part-time Prefectural Government employee on suspicion of DUI on Jun. 3rd. Police say 44-year-old Morihito Maekawa was apprehended in the morning of ...
Tokashiki Village gets resident dentist [CURRENT ISSUE News]
Dentist Takumi Takano recently moved into and opened a dental clinic in Tokashiki Village, becoming the first dentist to reside in the village. There has been a dental clinic on To...
Three Okinawa hotels selected among nation’s top 10 for golfers [News]
Rakuten, Inc. Japan’s largest Internet retail company based in Tokyo, recently released its list of “Golf Lovers’ Top 10 Hotels in Japan,” and named three hotels from Okinawa among...
28 international conferences planned for Okinawa in 2016 [News]
The Okinawa Department of the Cabinet Office of the Government of Japan held a government agencies’ liaison conference on Jun. 9th to report and discuss of the 28 international con...
Six arrested for smuggling 110 kg of gold into Japan [News]
Okinawa Prefectural Police, Tokyo Metropolitan Police and Okinawa District Customs Office arrested six people, including two members of a designated criminal syndicate, on Jun. 8th...
Visiting Aichi students suffer food poisoning [News]
218 high school students visiting Okinawa on a school trip from Aichi Prefecture fell victims of food poisoning in Nago. According to the Okinawa Prefecture Community Health Divisi...
Tomigusuku mayor wants to change June 19 demo site [Politics]
Tomigusuku Mayor Haruki Gibo has requested to All-Okinawa Council, the organizer of the planned Jun. 19 large-scale demonstration against the U.S. military presence in Okinawa, to ...
Kunigami YuiYui road station to reopen in July after renovation [Business]
Road Station YuiYui in Kunigami, a tourist and local product center on Highway 58 close to Okuma, is scheduled to reopen Jul. 24. Of the eight road stations on Okinawa, Road Statio...
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