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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
2015.12.08
NEXCO narrows express lanes between Ginoza and Kyoda [News]
Expressway traffic between Ginoza and Kyoda interchanges becomes potentially snarled for a nearly three-month period. A part of the Okinawa Expressway between #9 Ginoza and #10 Ky...
Man dies in police custody; sudden illness suspected [News]
A 58-year-old unemployed man with no fixed address died in Naha Police custody on Friday. According Naha police, the man had been arrested on suspicion of a robbery attempt on Dec....
58 suffer food poisoning from bento lunch [News]
The Okinawa Prefecture Community Health Division announced Friday that 58 people who ate bento (lunch box) made on Nov. 24th at JA Okinawa A-COOP Mall in Nago had shown symptoms of...
18,326 complete Sunday’s Naha Marathon race [Sports]
The 31st NAHA Marathon was ran Sunday with 26,679 people starting on the course at 9 a.m. at Meiji-bashi Crossing on Highway 58 in Naha City. The full-marathon course wound along r...
Ojyana Lawson robbed at knife-point [News]
A robber entered a Lawson convenience store in Ojyana, Ginowan City, Friday afternoon, and threatened the female sole clerk in the store with a knife demanding money. He grabbed ab...
Leader of group arrested for trespassing into Schwab [News]
Hiroji Yamashiro, the chairman of the Okinawa Heiwa Undou Center (Okinawa Peace Movement Center), a group opposing construction work at Henoko, was arrested on suspicion of trespas...
Aiko Shimajiri confirms support to Henoko plan [Politics]
Aiko Shimajiri, Japan’s minister in charge of Okinawa affairs, who’s currently visiting Washington D.C., stated at a symposium that she agrees that the plan to relocate the MCAS Fu...
Sun Marina Hotel to become Sheraton [Business]
Starwood Hotels & Resorts, the operators of Sheraton and Westin hotel chains worldwide, announced officially on Dec. 2nd a plan to renovate Sun Marina Hotel in Onna Village, an...
Annual Nago Half-Marathon invites runners [Sports]
Organizers of the 57th Nago Half-Marathon announced that they are now accepting registrations from participants through the 13th of this month. The marathon takes place from 9:00 a...
Man arrested for trespassing into welfare facility [News]
Okinawa City Police arrested Dec. 2nd a U.S. military civilian employee working on Kadena Air Base on suspicion of unlawful entry. According to Okinawa City Police, the 32-year-old...
Miyako man arrested for possession of illegal plants [News]
Miyakojima City Police arrested a 54-year-old man working at National Miyako Nanseien Sanatorium, Wednesday, on suspicion of possessing pieces of dried plants that included illegal...
Luggage from Incheon to Naha ends up in Narita [News]
Passengers on Korean LLC Jeju Air from Incheon International Airport in Seoul to Naha on Nov. 31st were in for not so pleasant surprise when they discovered that the luggage that h...
Norovirus infects visiting high school students [News]
The Okinawa Prefecture Community Health Division announced Wednesday that six of high school students visiting Okinawa on a school trip had developed a food poisoning caused by nor...
Groundbreaking ceremony Hotel Blossom Naha held [Business]
Orion Beer Co., Ltd and JR Kyushu Hotels Co., an affiliate of Kyushu Railway Company, or JR Kyushu, held a groundbreaking ceremony for a new city hotel named ‘Blossom Naha’ at the ...
Tokashiki Marathon invites runners [Sports]
Organizers of the 11th Tokashiki Marathon scheduled for Feb. 6th, 2016 are now accepting runner registrations. The demanding course winds around the island with 90-meter elevation-...
Bingata masters’ exhibition in Prefectural Museum [News]
Bingata is the most valued of Ryukyu textiles, and one of the three Bingata schools dating back to the Ryukyu Kingdom era is Shiroma Bingata Atelier in Shuri-Yamakawa Town, Naha Ci...
Bio fuel company ready to move to production [News]
Biofuel-venture company Euglena which has its research and manufacturing facilities on Ishigaki Island and head office in Tokyo, announced on Monday it’s plan for the first practic...
26 new HIV carriers and AIDS cases in 2015 [News]
The Okinawa Prefectural Public Health and Medical Policy Division announced Monday that 26 new HIV carriers and AIDS cases have been discovered in Okinawa this year as of Nov. 30th...
Businessman falls to death from 6th floor in Naha [News]
A 27-year-old businessman fell down to his death from the 6th floor of a building in Matsuyama, Naha City, Sunday evening. According to Naha Police, Daisuke Ikeda, a businessman fr...
Laser light aimed at U.S. aircraft at Futenma [News]
U.S. Marine officials announced that intense light believed to be from a laser has been directed at U.S. military aircraft flying to and from MCAS Futenma five times since July las...
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