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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
2015.01.16
Paintball is newest adventure sport at northern resort [Sports]
It might still a little bit if the hunter becomes the victim, but that’s part of the excitement of paintball, about to be unveiled as a part of the adventure activities at the Kanu...
2015.01.16
Three players from Kings chosen for TK bj-League All Star Game [Ryukyu Golden Kings]
Three players from the Ryukyu Golden Kings have been chosen to appear at the Turkish Airlines bj-League All Star Game of the 2014-2015 season, to be played Feb. 1sr at Gunma Arena ...
2015.01.12
Registration for Corporate Games continues [Sports]
The Corporate Games arrive on Okinawa in early March, and the Jan. 26 deadline for registrations is fast approaching. The unique series of sports events, which began in England and...
2015.01.09
Golden Kings keep marching to victory [Ryukyu Golden Kings]
The Ryukyu Golden Kings keep finding their way into the win column, surrendering leads to nobody as they wound up 2014 and began their 2015 quest for another Basketball Japan Leagu...
2014.12.28
Team registration deadline extended for Corporate Games [Sports]
The entry registration deadline for Corporate Games, the world’s largest multi-sport festival, scheduled for Okinawa Mar. 4th ~ 8th, has been extended by a month.. Originally the d...
2014.12.24
Golden Kings close year with series split [Ryukyu Golden Kings]
The Shiga Lakestars came to Okinawa, surprising the Ryukyu Golden Kings by stealing away one of the year-ending victories the home fans had been expecting. Okinawa did well enough ...
2014.12.22
Countdown is on to Okinawa Corporate Games [Sports]
The Corporate Games are coming to Okinawa for the first time! The unique series of sports events, which began in England and was staged in San Francisco in 1988, is making its debu...
2014.12.16
Golden Kings stumble, lose to powerhouse Iwate [Ryukyu Golden Kings]
The competition was fierce, but in the end, the duel between the Ryukyu Golden Kings and Eastern Conference powerhouse Iwate concluded with a three-point win for the Big Bulls. The...
2014.12.10
Golden Kings roll on simply unstoppable [Ryukyu Golden Kings]
Chalk it up: the Ryukyu Golden Kings are more than fired up, extending their unbeaten streak to ten straight, while dominating the Basketball Japan League’s Western Conference wit...
Okinawan former boxing champ selected to Boxing Hall of Fame [Sports]
Yoko Gushiken, a former professional boxing champion from Ishigaki Island, was selected for induction to the International Boxing Hall of Fame, IBHOF, when the organization announc...
Record number of runners took part in Naha Marathon [Sports]
The 30th Naha Marathon took place Sunday, with the full marathon course taking the runners through five cities and towns in the southern part of the island. Of 26,905 runners that ...
2014.12.06
Weather’s ‘just right’ for Sunday’s Naha Marathon [Sports]
The maximum number of runners ever –30,000 were picked from 43,000 applicants— are poised to toe the line Sunday morning for the start of The 30th Naha Marathon, and overcast...
2014.12.03
Red hot Golden Kings stretch winning streak to eight [Ryukyu Golden Kings]
The Ryukyu Kings are red hot, handing out a double dose of punishment to the Osaka Evessa while running their win streak to eight consecutive games AND extending their record to 14...
FIBA officially bans Japan from international basketball [Sports]
The world body governing basketball has made it official; the Japan Basketball Association is suspended, meaning Japanese national teams are banned from international competitions,...
2017 JPGA Championships scheduled for Kise Country Club [Sports]
One of the three major competitions on Japan men’s golf tour, the Japan PGA Championships, is going to take place at Kise Country Club in Nago, in 2017. The official signing ceremo...
2014.11.30
Military wife has eyes set on MMA pro career [Sports]
Peggy Ross loves martial arts, making time in a busy schedule as a military wife and mom to train and fight over the past three years while keeping her eye on the goal of ultimatel...
2014.11.26
Golden Kings just keep on rollin’ [Ryukyu Golden Kings]
It was a road series reminiscent of last spring’s Basketball Japan League championship, as the Golden Kings took on the Akita Northern Happinets, and the outcome was pleasantly the...
2014.11.22
Rain or shine, the 25th Chubu Trim Marathon is Sunday [Sports]
The routes are marked for the four races in Sunday’s 25th Chubu Trim Marathon, which starts from Okinawa Comprehensive Athletic Park, and organizers say nothing’s going to stop the...
Japan team wins exhibition game against MLB All Stars [Sports]
A ‘2014 Suzuki All Stars Series’ exhibition game pitting a squad of U.S. Major League players against a Japanese all stars team Samurai Japan was played at Okinawa Cellular Stadiu...
American college hoops coming to Okinawa [Sports]
A pair of American college basketball powerhouses are coming to Okinawa to square off in the 2015 Armed Forces Classic. Gonzaga University will square off against the University of...
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