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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
2013.06.29
Kings ink new player contracts for next season [Sports]
The Ryukyu Golden Kings are wasting no time getting ready for the coming Basketball Japan League season, signing new contracts on some of its top players. The Kings put together n...
2013.06.16
Windsurfers compete in 17th Kachi Bay Cup [Sports]
Entries are still being accepted for participants in this weekend’s 17th Kachi Bay Cup, a battle of windsurfing off the shores of Moon Beach in Onna Village. A total of 80 windsurf...
2013.06.10
Cyclists ready for 6th Tour de Miyakojima 2013 [Sports]
Cyclists are counting the days until the “Tour de Miyakojima”, set to be run in stages little more than a week from now. Miyako Island hosts the event, mixing the area’s sport, res...
2013.06.09
Amateur basketball gains popularity in Okinawa [Sports]
The Ryukyu Golden Kings provide basketball excitement for Okinawa, but across this island, basketball is gaining stature with just about everyone. Basketball is great entertainment...
2013.06.06
Golden Kings make it official: Isa is team’s head coach [Ryukyu Golden Kings]
Tsutomu Isa is perhaps the happiest man on Okinawa, although he’s the first to concede the excitement is matched by anxiety of having a tough road ahead as the new head coach for t...
2013.05.30
Koza Music Town televising FIFA World Cup qualifier [Sports]
The excitement of Japan versus Australia in the 2014 FIFA World Cup qualification round of the Asian Football Confederation is promising to be an evening of excitement, and Koza Mu...
2013.05.30
Ready for Pacific Muscle Classic [Sports]
By Bill Charles Primping, posing, flexing and even a bit of wiggling will be taking place Sunday as dozens of competitors step on the Keystone Theater stage at Kadena Air Base for ...
Yokohama outlasts Fukuoka to win BJL championship [Sports]
The Yokohama B-Corsairs fought long and hard Sunday afternoon to outplay the Rizing Fukuoka and set some records while winning the Basketball Japan League championship. For starter...
2013.05.24
Home-grown boy named Golden Kings head coach [CURRENT ISSUE Ryukyu Golden Kings]
Little more than a week after the Ryukyu Golden Kings were stunned and eliminated from the Basketball Japan League championship series, management has shaken things up by replacing...
2013.05.19
Koza Street Dance Festa looking for a champion [Sports]
Entrants are still being sought for the Saturday, May 25th Koza Street Dance Festa taking place in the Music Space in Koza Music Town Oto-Ichiba. Entries are being accepted 11:30 a...
2013.05.19
Karate Tournament heading to Ginowan [Sports]
The main arena of the Ginowan Civic Gymnasium is the venue for the Fighting Karate Open Tournament on May 26th. Doors to the Sunday events, which are free to the public, open at 9 ...
2013.05.15
Golden Kings out after disastrous home playoff series [Ryukyu Golden Kings]
“Shock and Awe” can be the only words to describe the meltdown by the Ryukyu Golden Kings in the semi-finals of the Basketball Japan League at the hands of a team that couldn’t bea...
2013.05.09
Three main events headline Sunday’s Tenkaichi Super Fights [Sports]
Jujitsu skills are on display Sunday afternoon at the Tenkaichi Super Fights in Koza Music Town, when the welterweight title match is on the line. Fighting on Mixed Martial Arts ru...
2013.05.09
1st round BJL playoffs send Kyoto to Okinawa [Ryukyu Golden Kings]
The Golden Week first round of the Basketball Japan League playoffs was one of monumental achievements for teams, but Okinawa eyes were on the Kyoto Hannaryz, expected to win over ...
Golden Kings set new regular season record [Ryukyu Golden Kings]
On paper and on the hardwoods, the Ryukyu Golden Kings are the best team in the Basketball Japan League, and they proved it again in their season finale on the road in Osaka the la...
2013.05.09
Golden Kings’ McHenry named league MVP [Sports]
And the winner is… Anthony McHenry of the Ryukyu Golden Kings. Three days after the Ryukyu Golden Kings set a new league record with 42 wins against only 10 losses on the season, ...
2013.04.25
Golden Kings run roughshod over Cinq Reves [Ryukyu Golden Kings]
It was not even a level playing field as the Ryukyu Golden Kings–already the Western Conference Champions in the Basketball Japan League and with their eye on yet another lea...
2013.04.17
Golden Kings delight home fans with two-game sweep [Ryukyu Golden Kings]
With the season’s Western Conference championship already in the bag, the Ryukyu Golden Kings played relaxed in front of the home fans at Okinawa City, trashing the Gunma Crane Thu...
2013.04.15
All-Japan Triathlon on Miyakojima to draw thousands [Sports]
One the most famous in the triathlon conventions held in Japan, the 29th All Japan Triathlon, is putting the final touches on the course in preparation for the Sunday, April 21st e...
2013.04.12
Sakaguchi Dojo, Pancrase prepare mixed martial arts bouts [Sports]
Sakaguchi Dojo from Tokyo and mixed martial arts promoter Pancrase are teaming up to bring four wrestling matches and six mixed martial arts bouts to Okinawa City Gym. The afternoo...
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