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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
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...
Defense Minister visit fails to advance Henoko talks [Politics]
Defense Minister Gen Nakatani made a quick visit to Okinawa over the weekend hoping to bend the ears of local officials to take more positive stance on the government plan to reloc...
Man arrested for confining girlfriend in hotel room [News]
Urasoe Police arrested 34-year-old part-time worker Hiroki Yamazato from Urasoe City, Sunday, on suspicion of confining his girlfriend in a hotel room against her will. According t...
Okinawa team wins kids’ rubber baseball title [Sports]
While high school baseball teams battle for national championship at Koshien Stadium in Hyogo Prefecture, younger kids played at the 32nd All Japan Children’s Rubber Baseball Tourn...
Group protesting new security laws organized [News]
A group of mostly young people, including college students, who oppose the national security-related legislation pushed by the government of Prime Minister Shinzo Abe launched a ne...
Oil leak from hotel found off Awase coast [News]
A slick of heavy oil was found Aug. 14th off the coast of Awase, Okinawa City. The 500-meter wide oil slick has been confirmed originating from Tokyo Dai-ichi Hotel Okinawa Grand M...
Venture Market exchange event aims to attract 250 companies [Business]
The 6th Okinawa Venture Market cross-industrial exchange event will take place Dec. 1st at Okinawa Cellular Park Naha in Onoyama, Naha City. Organizers of the event aim at attracti...
Two servicemen nabbed for DUI Saturday morning [News]
Okinawan police nabbed two American servicemen Saturday on suspicion of driving under influence. According to Okinawa Prefectural Police, 20-year-old Navy sailor Basil Jones, stati...
Sex shop owner arrested for prostituting minors [News]
Naha Police arrested a 31-year-old man from Urasoe City on Aug. 6th on suspicion of violating the law banning prostitution and the Child Welfare Law. According to Naha Police, Shok...
Voyeur nabbed in Uruma [News]
Uruma Police arrested a 38-year-old member of Okinawa International University clerical staff Saturday on suspicion of trespassing into a private property. Police say they nabbed Y...
Tokyo tries to soften Okinawa with ¥300 billion budget promise [Politics]
In an apparent attempt to alleviate tensions between his government and Okinawa Prefecture over the construction of the replacement facility for MCAS Futenma in Henoko, Prime Minis...
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Koshien is ‘Field of Dreams’ for Japanese baseball youth [Sports]
The Japanese National High School Baseball Championship Tournament, known as ‘Koshien’, is a high school baseball tournament taking place two times every year, in spring and summer...
U.S. UH-60 crash-lands on ship off Okinawa, all onboard survive [News]
A U.S. Army UH-60 Black Hawk helicopter with 17 people onboard crashed while attempting to land on a ship east of Ikei Island off Okinawa’s west coast Wednesday afternoon. Accordin...
Report on Okinawa’s future population trends released [News]
NIAC, the Nansei-soto Industrial Advancement Center, a think tank for research and study of industrial vitalization of the southwestern islands of Japan including Okinawa Prefectur...
Police releases ‘It’s me’ fraud phone call recording [News]
Okinawa Prefectural Police made public a recording of a man’s voice making a phone call to an elderly woman in her 80’s, trying to convince the woman to transfer money into a bank ...
Okinawa team wins National Abacus Championship [News]
In spite of being a country that first embraced electronic calculators, Japanese still put a high value on the skill of doing calculations with an abacus, a device which is older t...
Suga and Onaga hold first ‘intensive’ meeting on Henoko dispute [News]
Chief Cabinet Secretary Yoshihide Suga came to Okinawa on Monday, and had a dinner meeting lasting about an hour and half with Okinawa Governor Takeshi Onaga and Deputy Governor Mi...
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