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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
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...
Three members of family drowns, one rescued in Miyako [News]
A rip current swept four members of a family from Hyogo Prefecture out to the sea Monday afternoon, off Toguchi-no-hama on Irabu Island, Miyakojima City. Three members of the famil...
Henoko construction suspension began; 1st Suga-Onaga meeting today [Politics]
A truce of sorts was declared in the simmering issue of building the relocation facility for MCAS Futenma in Henoko, as the central government ordered a one-month long suspension o...
ANA and Yamato to test luggage delivery service [Business]
Okinawa Yamato Transportation co., Ltd, a subsidiary of a large parcel delivery company Yamato Japan, and ANA, All Nippon Airways Co., Ltd, will jointly start on a test basis a tem...
Drifter arrested for hit-and-run accident [News]
Naha Police arrested a 62-year-old unemployed man without a fixed address, Thursday, on suspicion of hit-and-run. According to police, the suspect drove a car that hit a 45-year-ol...
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