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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
Female teacher arrested for hit-and-run DUI [News]
A 25-year-old female temporary teacher working at a prefectural high school on Ishigaki Island was arrested Saturday on suspicion of a hit-and-run under influence alcohol. Accordin...
Court proposes settlement of Henoko reclamation lawsuit [News]
The Fukuoka High Court Naha Branch presented last week a provisional settlement plan for the dispute between the central government in Tokyo and Okinawa Prefecture who are in a cou...
Karate gets own division in Okinawa government [Sports]
The Okinawa Prefectural Government has decided to set up a new division to promote karate and ancient Japanese martial arts. The new division that will start working from April wil...
Professionals give free advice to home builders [Business]
Architects Studio Japan, the largest nationwide network of architects in the country, is organizing a free exhibition and counseling event at Okinawa Convention Center this today a...
Fireman crashes into taxi, arrested for DUI [News]
Okinawa City Police arrested Feb. 11th a 34-year-old Uruma City Fire Department firefighter on suspicion of drinking and driving. Police say the fireman crashed into a taxi that ha...
Noa Onaga gets new heart in the U.S. [News]
Noa Onaga, the one-year-old girl suffering from a serious cardiac disease, who went to the U.S. to wait for a suitable donor heart mid January, underwent a successful heart transpl...
2016.02.11
Kings drop to third place after splitting weekend series against Kyoto [Ryukyu Golden Kings]
The weekend pair of on-the-road games against Kyoto Hannaryz started well enough for the Ryukyu Golden Kings as they won the Saturday’s game 84-76 in front The game was pure ecstas...
Prefecture presents largest initial budget bill ever [News]
The Okinawa Prefectural Government approved the initial budget for the fiscal 2016 at a government board meeting on Feb. 8th, and presented the plan informally to each government d...
New chocolate made with awamori for Valentine’s Day [Business]
Edelweiss Okinawa, a high-class pastry shop, and Chuko Awamori Distillery have jointly created a new pastry that is made using Belgique chocolate and awamori. The new ‘Premium Choc...
Eriko Imai of pop group SPEED to run in Upper House election [Politics]
Eriko Imai, a member of the Okinawan all-female pop group SPEED is set to tun as a candidate representing the ruling Liberal Democratic Party in the upcoming Upper House election e...
Average company presidents older, women increase [Business]
The Okinawa Branch of Teikoku Databank, a business information company, has released a survey putting the average age of a company president in Okinawa at 58.2 years of age as of t...
Number of foreign workers increased by 44.6% [Business]
According to statistics of Okinawa Labor Bureau, released on Feb. 5th, the number of foreigners working in the prefecture increased 44.6 % to 4,898 people, as of the end of October...
Majority of motorcycle thefts committed by young boys [News]
According to Okinawa Prefectural Police, 103 of the 113 persons arrested on suspicion of motorcycle thefts in 2015 were boys between 14 and 20 years of age. The proportion of boys ...
Farm worker drowns after falling into irrigation pond [News]
A farm worker accidentally fell into an irrigation pond and drowned in the Okayo district of Motobu Town, Wednesday. According to Motobu Police, a male emergency caller informed po...
High school boy nabbed for forgery [News]
Yaeyama Police on arrested a 17-year-old high school boy from Haebaru Town on Feb. 2nd on suspicion of forging a driver’s license and using it for illegal purpose. According to inv...
2016.02.03
Kings split home series against Oita-Ehime Heat Devils [Ryukyu Golden Kings]
3,746 people were in audience on Saturday to witness the Ryukyu Golden Kings to win handsomely 101-80 on their home turf against visiting Oita-Ehime Heat Devils. However, the home ...
Runners invited to Nanbu Trim Marathon [Sports]
The 28th Nanbu Trim Marathon is scheduled to take place Sunday, Mar. 20th. The trim marathon was first organized in April 1989, and has by now grown to become one of the largest fa...
OPG to set special fund to fight child poverty [News]
The Okinawa Prefectural Government has investigated children’s poverty in Okinawa for the first time and, based on the findings, concluded that 29.9% of children in the prefecture ...
JTA adds flights to Miyako, changes to larger aircraft [News]
Japan Transocean Air Co., Ltd, announced that it has decided to add one more daily flight between Miyako and Naha in March in order to respond to increasing demand from tourists to...
Gangster arrested for stabbing woman [News]
Okinawa City Police on arrested a 53-year-old unemployed man living in Teruya, Okinawa City Saturday on suspicion of attempted murder. The man is reportedly a member of gangster gr...
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