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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
2015.04.30
Sabani experience open to anyone [Sports]
The 7th ‘Sabani’ experience & the 11th craft event ‘Manmaru-ichi’ are coming up this weekend in Nago City, with visitors having opportunities to paddle and row Sabani and learn...
2015.04.29
Golden Kings split final weekend series [Ryukyu Golden Kings]
There were some good moments and some not-so-good moments as the Ryukyu Golden Kings took the Basketball Japan League season down to the wire, delighting the home fans on Saturday ...
Nippon Ham Fighters to move part of spring camp from Nago [Sports]
Hokkaido Nippon-Ham Fighters, a Japanese pro baseball team, has decided to shorten the time of its annual February spring training camp in Nago, and relocate the training to anothe...
2015.04.27
Okinawa City becomes Golden King’s official hometown [Ryukyu Golden Kings]
The Ryukyu Golden Kings and Okinawa City held a joint press conference Monday morning to announce that Okinawa City would become the Golden Kings’ official hometown. The team was r...
2015.04.22
Golden Kings do it again – now looking at playoffs [Ryukyu Golden Kings]
The Nara Bambitious were the victims of record, falling to the Ryukyu Golden Kings as they powered their way to another 40-game season, and there are still a couple of games to go ...
31st Miyako Triathlon turned into Duathlon [Sports]
The 31st All Japan Triathlon took place on Miyako Island on Apr. 19th in less than ideal weather conditions. Due to the bad weather in the morning, the swimming portion of the race...
2015.04.20
Extreme Okinawa! [Sports]
By David Higgins Are you tired of the same boring week in-week out routine? Are you starting to feel like you have done most of what there is to do on Okinawa, or are you itching f...
Golden Kings preparing for playoffs, home finale [Ryukyu Golden Kings]
The Ryukyu Golden Kings are a game out of first place in the Basketball Japan League’s Western Conference, trailing the red-hot Kyoto Hannaryz as the season winds down later this m...
2015.04.12
SOFA-status personnel free for J-League Soccer [Sports]
Okinawa’s F.C. Ryukyu opens its 2015 campaign at home Sunday against Fukushima United Football Club at Comprehensive Athletic Park in the Awase area. Admission is free to the J-Lea...
2015.04.10
Golden Kings bounce back on road [Ryukyu Golden Kings]
Stung by a loss as the Basketball Japan League moves toward the wire and behind by a game in the Western Conference, the Ryukyu Golden Kings moved into Fukuoka seeking to redeem th...
Kings ready to join new basketball champion league [Sports]
Japan’s two bickering professional basketball leagues finally have pulled their act together and are starting a new joint professional championship league from Oct. 2016. The schis...
2015.04.05
Sprint Triathlon at White Beach coming April 19th [Sports]
Spring is in the air, and Navy MWR Okinawa and Navy Sports Fitness are staging a Sprint Triathlon at White Beach on April 19th. The triathlon is not an open base event, but the Spr...
2015.04.01
Golden Kings stumble Saturday, redeem themselves Sunday [Ryukyu Golden Kings]
“We lost a game that we should have won” is how Okinawa head coach Tsutomu Isa summed up a stunning home court loss to the high-flying Kyoto Hannaryz in the opening game of their s...
2015.03.25
Golden Kings slip to 2nd after being stunned by Oita [Ryukyu Golden Kings]
The Ryukyu Golden Kings were riding high in the Basketball Japan League’s Western Conference after an easy series opener against the Oita HeatDevils, but encountered a fired up squ...
2015.03.18
MMA moves to Cage action on Okinawa [Sports]
Three young American military fighters are ready for Sunday, when Mixed Martial Arts grows to a new dimension – Locked On – Cage Impact — for the very first time in Okinawa. The ma...
2015.03.18
Golden Kings power-sweep another series [Ryukyu Golden Kings]
The Basketball Japan League season is moving to its final weeks, and in the Western Conference Ryukyu Golden Kings are not taking any guff from anyone, despite having a couple of i...
2015.03.11
Golden Kings split with Osaka in tough weekend [Ryukyu Golden Kings]
The powerhouse Western Conference leading Ryukyu Golden Kings found themselves in trouble in front of the home crowd as the Osaka Evessa threatened Saturday and then pounded the Ok...
2015.03.10
Taiwan’s Teresa Lu rallies to win Daikin Orchid [Sports]
27-year-old Taiwanese Teresa Lu powered her way to victory in the final round of the Daikin Orchid Ladies Golf Tournament, bumping a Japanese woman who had held the lead heading in...
2015.03.05
Daikin Orchid Ladies Golf tournament tee off Friday [Sports]
Onnarin Sattayabanphot is back in Okinawa, set to defend her Daikin Orchid Ladies Golf Tournament title, while challenges are expected from three former champions. The youngster fr...
2015.03.05
Motocross roars into Nago first time in 15 years [Sports]
By Bill Charles Professional motorcyclists from mainland Japan will join Okinawan bikers this weekend for the first professional All-Star Motocross competitions on the island in 15...
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