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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
2015.08.30
Island Boat in Ginowan Marina is dream maker [Business]
By Jun Ikemura How many of us have not dreamed of sailing to the sunset onboard our own yacht, chasing the big ones on a full-blooded fishing machine, or just lounging under the su...
Ryuichi Kishimoto named Golden Kings’ captain [Sports]
Ryukyu Golden Kings, the Okinawan pro-basketball team playing in the TKbj-League, announced Aug. 24th the selection of Ryuichi Kishimoto for the captain of the team for the upcomin...
13-year-old heart transplant recipient returns home [News]
The Okinawan heart-transplant recipient, 13-year-old Rai Matsushima from Chatan Town, has returned home to Okinawa. Rai, who underwent the heart transplant operation in the U.S. be...
Yokozuna Hakuho visits to promote sumo exhibition tournament [Sports]
The highest-ranking sumo wrestler, Yokozuna Hakuho, visited Okinawa Aug. 25th, to promote the winter season sumo exhibition tournament scheduled to take place here on Dec. 12th and...
New Sakamoto album to support Henoko opposition fund [News]
World famous Japanese musician Ryuichi Sakamoto is scheduled to release a new album titled ‘Mirukuyugafu-Undercooled’ in collaboration with local Okinawa folk singer Misako Koja on...
Okinawa remains popular destination for school trips [News]
The Prefectural Department of Culture, Tourism and Sports released Aug. 20th the statistics on school trips to Okinawa in 2014. According to the department figures, the number of s...
Third round of ‘intensive’ talks yield scarce results [Politics]
The third round of the ‘intensive’ discussions between the Japanese central government and Okinawa Prefecture in Naha, Monday, brought a first agreement between the fighting sides ...
Urasoe High School team wins sumo championship [Sports]
Students of the Urasoe Junior High School took the top spot in the team competition of the 45th All Japan Junior High School Sumo Tournament in Towada City, Aomori Prefecture, Sund...
Okinawan goods sold on line at discount with gov. subsidy [Business]
A new internet shop outsourced by the Prefectural Department of Commerce, Industry and Labor to sell Okinawan local products at a 30 % discount started Monday. The goods are sold a...
New U.S. Consul General in Naha takes post [News]
The United States Consulate General has a new boss as the new consul general took his post on Aug. 18th. The new consul general is 52-year-old Joel Ehrendreich, who officially took...
Army corporal nabbed for DUI Saturday morning [News]
Okinawa City Police arrested a 22-year-old Army corporal on Highway 58 in Sunabe, Chatan, Saturday morning on suspicion of drinking and driving. According to Okinawa Police, Cpl. T...
Third round of ‘intense’ talks held Monday [Politics]
Deputy Chief Cabinet Secretary Kazuhiro Sugita arrived at Okinawa Sunday morning for the third round of ‘intensive’ talks between the Okinawa Prefectural Government and the Central...
Students protest against security bills in Mihama [Politics]
‘SEALDs Ryukyu’, a protest group in Okinawa against the new security bills, consisting mainly of young students of colleges and universities on Okinawa, organized a protest rally i...
Skymark announces new flight schedules for winter and spring [Business]
Skymark Airlines, a budget airline currently in bankruptcy protection, announced Aug. 21 its planned changes to its flight schedules during the winter season between Oct. 25th and ...
Prefecture mulling expanding OKICA fare payment system [News]
The Okinawa Prefectural Government is mulling the feasibility of expanding the IC-card based OKICA payment system to replace the current ticket system in ferries serving Okinawa’s ...
Young Chatan heart transplant recipient to return home [News]
The doctor of 13-year-old Rai Matsushima from Chatan, a recipient of a heart transplant in February at the Colombia University Hospital in New York, has granted him the permission ...
U.S. Consul General Alfred Magleby leaves [News]
Alfred R. Magleby, the U.S. Consul General in Naha, paid a courtesy visit to Okinawa Governor Takeshi Onaga at the Prefectural Government Office, Aug 17th, to inform the governor t...
Marine nabbed for possession of gun and ammo at Narita [News]
Chiba Prefectural Police arrested a 31-year-old male Marine Staff Sergeant on his way from the U.S. to Okinawa on Aug. 16th, on suspicion of violating the Japanese Firearms and Swo...
Typhoon Goni shuts down Okinawa [News]
Typhoon Goni, the 15th typhoon of the season, is approaching Okinawa’s main island today after hitting Iriomote and Ishigaki islands southwest of Okinawa Sunday night. The Japan Me...
Okinawa and Tokyo stay apart after second meeting Tuesday [News]
Okinawa Governor Takeshi Onaga and Chief Cabinet Secretary Yoshihide Suga held their second meeting regarding the relocation of the MCAS Futenma. The meeting that lasted 30 minutes...
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