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Okinawa Expressway Renewal Work Starts J… [CURRENT ISSUE LIFE Living]
NEXCO, the company operating the Okinawa Expressway announces that Expressway renewal works start from January 6th to March 31st in 2027 bet...Read More
Itoman Tug-of-War marks end of summer [CULTURE CURRENT ISSUE ENTERTAINMENT]
Many Okinawan farmers and fishermen, in some form or fashion, pay tribute to the Gods, seeking their blessing and favor for a great harvest ...Read More
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
III MEF gets new boss [Military]
U.S. Marine Corps Maj. Gen. Lawrence Nicholson has been named new commanding general of III Marine Expeditionary Force based at Camp Courtney. Nicholson, the current commanding gen...
Naha declares itself LGBT-friendly at ‘Pink Dot’ event [News]
Naha City Government declared Sunday itself a city that respects gender diversity at the ‘Pink Dot Okinawa’ event. The Pink Dot Okinawa is an annual event aiming at making the soci...
Expo Park festival attracts record crowds [News]
The 37th Expo Park Summer Festival that took place at the Ocean Expo Park in Ishikawa, Motobu Town, Jul. 18th, attracted record crowds to the largest fireworks show on the island. ...
ANA starts summertime Tokyo-Naha night flights [Business]
ANA, All Nippon Airways has started its limited-time, summer-season-only service of so called ‘ANA Galaxy Flights’ between Naha and Haneda in Tokyo. The Galaxy Flight makes only on...
Nago police nabs drifter on lam after DUI, hit-and-run [News]
Nago Police arrested 59-year-old unemployed drifter, Kokin Maja, Thursday, on suspicion of a hit-and-run, driving under influence, and other offenses. According to police, the man ...
Survey finds Okinawans to be heavy drinkers [News]
According to a survey on Okinawans’ drinking habits that covered 32,772 men and women aged 20-69 living on Okinawa, more than 9.5 % of them, or about 85,000 of those who took part ...
Former Okinawa City lawyer arrested for embezzlement [News]
Okinawa Police arrested 85-year-old former lawyer Masanori Higa on suspicion of embezzling ¥75 million of a client’s deposit money for private purposes. According to Okinawa Prefec...
Airman indicted for May assault and robbery [CURRENT ISSUE]
Naha district Public Prosecutors Office has indicted a Kadena airman for a robbery and assault that happened in May on Kokusai Street in the Kumoji district of Naha City. The Prose...
Record number of cruise ships visit Okinawa [Business]
The number of cruise ships expected to visit ports in Okinawa Prefecture this year is expected to reach a record number. According to Okinawa General Bureau, cruise ships are expec...
Hit-and-run biker sought [News]
Naha Police is looking for a driver of a motor scooter who hit a 11-year-old elementary school boy knocking him down, and then driving away. The accident took place about 7:55 a.m....
Brown sugar recall [News]
Iriomote Togyo, a local sugar manufacturer with the head office in Urasoe City, announced Jul. 11th that metallic powder has been found attached to their product ‘Brown Sugar Lumps...
Jiji Press apologizes for reporter’s Okinawa remarks [News]
Jiji Press, a major Japanese news agency, apologized Tuesday for inappropriate remarks that one of its reporters made during a regular press conference of Chief Cabinet Secretary Y...
Average annual income in Okinawa just over ¥2 million [Business]
The Okinawa Prefecture Department of Planning released Monday the summary of statistics of incomes by municipality in the fiscal 2012. According to the figures, the income per capi...
Company establishes plant to produce Halal food [Business]
A Mie Prefecture-based food and cultural goods cooperative has established a new company in Okinawa named Kakehashi Co. that built a new food processing plant in the international ...
27 injured in typhoon [News]
27 people suffered injuries of various degrees, most of them minor, during typhoon Chan-hom on the main island of Okinawa, and Miyako and Ishigaki islands. Injuries included bruise...
Painter arrested for punching and robbing taxi driver [News]
Ginowan Police arrested Saturday a 22-year-old painter living in Nagata, Ginowan City, on suspicion of an assault and robbery.. According to Ginowan Police, the robbery took place ...
Woman Marine nabbed for DUI in Naha on Saturday [News]
Naha Police arrested 21-year-old Marine Cpl. Heidi Ayala stationed on MCAS Futenma, Saturday, on suspicion of drinking and driving in Naha City. Ayala is also suspected of hitting ...
Highschool boy arrested for attempted murder [News]
Uruma Police arrested a 16-year-old male high school student on the night of Jul. 12th on suspicion of an attempted murder. According to police officials, the boy is suspected of t...
Water in dams still below average after Chan-hom [News]
Although typhoon Chan-hom did not hit Okinawa main island directly, it still brought a fair amount of much needed rainfall. According to Okinawa Prefecture Enterprize Bureau, the w...
Possibility grows of Onaga revoking Henoko landfill approval [News]
An independent panel Okinawa Governor Takeshi Onaga set up to investigate the validity of the Henoko landfill approval for the replacement facility of MCAS Futenma that his predece...
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