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Pro-Baseball Spring Training 2025 [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!! [ENTERTAINMENT Festival Sports]
・2/25 – 2/26 Yomitan Yachimun Market @ Farmers Market Yunta Ichiba in Yomitan village 10:00~17:00 Free to enter https://www.yomitan-sy...Read More
OkiEvents this Week!! [ENTERTAINMENT Festival Sports]
・12/11 Churashima Air Fest at Naha Air Base 9:00 – 15:00 Free to enter (Free courtesy bus will be available from Naha Military Port an...Read More
2015.10.27
Kings split tough pair of weekend games with Osaka [Ryukyu Golden Kings]
The Ryukyu Golden Kings faced Osaka Evessa over the pair of weekend on-the-road games ending up with a loss on Saturday, but edging a win in the Sunday game. Both matches were toug...
2015.10.26
Okinawa celebrated “Karate Day” on Sunday [Sports]
Two large Karate events took place to commemorate the 10th anniversary of the establishment of the ‘Karate Day’ of October 25th. Karate is also expected to be as one of the additio...
2015.10.25
Renewed Golden Kings off to good start for 2015-2016 season [Ryukyu Golden Kings]
By Jun Ikemura The renewed squad of the Ryukyu Golden Kings played its first game of the TKbj-League 2015-2016 season Oct. 2nd. The team faced the first two opponents on the road, ...
Okinawan youth selected for national U16 basketball team [Sports]
16-year-old Reo Shimajiri from Okinawa was selected to the national basketball team representing Japan in the 2015 FIBA Asia U16 Championships scheduled for Oct. 29 through Nov. 7t...
Okinawan schoolboy to race at kart world championship team [Sports]
15-year-old Hibiki Taira, a student at Ageda Junior High School, was selected as one of the two members of the Japanese national junior class team for the kart racing world champio...
2015.10.19
Golden Kings deliver wins in season’s first two home games [Ryukyu Golden Kings]
To the delight of their fans, the Ryukyu Golden Kings delivered a pair of wins in their first home games of the regular season 2015-16. The Saturday score against Bambitious Nara w...
History of karate published in manga format [Sports]
An English translation of a book titled ‘The 7 samurai of Okinawa Karate’ was published in September. The book is about the history of Okinawan karate, and the story of seven legen...
2015.10.12
Golden Kings split weekend games with Shiga Lakestars [Ryukyu Golden Kings]
The Ryukyu Golden Kings were facing the Shiga Lakestars in a pair of TKbj-League season 2015-16 second round games in Otsu, Shiga Prefecture, where the Kings ruled the Saturday’s m...
Okinawa athletes shine in National Sports Festival [Sports]
In the final doubles match of the female junior tennis players in the 70th National Sports Festival 2015 in Wakayama Prefecture, Sep. 30th, Lisa-Marie Rioux and Nana Shimoji of Oki...
2015.10.05
Golden Kings trounces Hiroshima in season opening games [Ryukyu Golden Kings]
The Ryukyu Golden Kings played its first pair of TKbj-League 2015-16 regular season games at the Asaminami-ku Sports Center in Hiroshima against the Hiroshima Lighting, an expansio...
2015.09.23
Kings split weekend games against Hitachi Sun Rockers [Ryukyu Golden Kings]
The Ryukyu Golden Kings faced the Hitachi Sun Rockers Tokyo, one of the top teams in the other Japanese basketball pro-league, NBL, in the last pair of the basketball TKbj-League p...
Cyclists invited to Tour de Okinawa bicycle race [Sports]
Organizers of Tour de Okinawa, one of the largest bicycle races in the country scheduled this year for Nov. 7th and 8th are now accepting registrations from bicyclists who want to ...
2015.09.07
Golden Kings are ready to go! [Ryukyu Golden Kings]
As the two Japanese pro-basketball leagues, TKbj-League and Japan Basketball League are preparing to merge into one league from season 2016 – 2017, the upcoming season 2015-2016 wi...
2015.09.04
Kings contracts new center/forward Evan Ravenel [Ryukyu Golden Kings]
Golden Kings announced that the team has contracted a new center/forward player Evan Ravenel on Aug. 25th. 25-year-old Florida native Ravenel who will carry number 30 on his...
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...
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...
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...
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...
2015.08.15
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...
Okinawan pair wins title in high school tennis c’ships [Sports]
An Okinawan pair of tennis players taking part in the National High School Championships took the first place in the women’s doubles, Saturday. Lisamari Ryu and Kiko Nishizato repr...
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