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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
Pro-Baseball Spring Training 2023 [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]
・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
2017.01.25
Golden Kings lose both weekend matches to Toyama [Ryukyu Golden Kings]
Toyama Grouses, currently the lowest ranking team in the Central Conference, showed that the still can muster what it takes as they made a clean sweep in a pair of weekend road gam...
2017.01.06
Golden Kings swipe Levanga Hokkaido in weekend road game [Ryukyu Golden Kings]
The Ryukyu Golden Kings earned a much welcomed weekend swipe in their last pair of games of 2016 in a road game at Hokkai Kitaeru Sports Center in Sapporo, Hokkaido, on Dec. 30 and...
2016.12.27
Kings woes continue with split weekend series [Ryukyu Golden Kings]
The Ryukyu Golden Kings faced Akita Northern Happinets in its Christmas game series last weekend. The result was a split series; the Kings won on Saturday and Happinets took the po...
Kings go down to second weekend of defeat [Ryukyu Golden Kings]
Golden Kings’ archrival since the days of the now defunct bj-Legue, Osaka Evessa, handed the visiting Kings another pair of bitter defeats in the weekend road game at Ikeda City Gy...
Women’s National Softball Team training in Yomitan [Sports]
The Japan Women’s National Softball Team arrived at Yomitan Village Thursday to start training for the 2020 Tokyo Olympic Games. The training camp is the team’s first since Reika U...
Samurai Japan wins its first Asia championship [Sports]
The Japanese youth baseball team “Samurai Japan” won its first U12 Asian Championship at the 9th BFA U12 Asian Baseball Championships in Zongshan, China. The Japanese team won the ...
2016.12.13
Double loss puts Kings back to 5th place in conference [Ryukyu Golden Kings]
Over the weekend, the Ryukyu Golden Kings encountered one of the strongest and most popular teams in the B. Legue, Tochigi Brex, on the Kings’ home court in Okinawa City Gym....
2016.12.06
Kings swipe Sendai 89ers in pair of road games [Ryukyu Golden Kings]
Some smiles must have broken out on the faces of players and officials of the Ryukyu Golden Kings, as the team broke their row of four consecutive defeats in the road game series a...
Three Kings’ players picked for first B. League All Star Game [Sports]
The Japanese pro-basketball B. League just started this October, but it will hold its first All Star Game on Jan. 15th at Yoyogi National Arena in Tokyo. The voting by fans for pla...
Onaga gives up on 2020 Tokyo Olympics kata contest [Sports]
Okinawa Governor Takeshi Onaga announced Tuesday afternoon that it would be very difficult to have the Kata Competition of karate of the 2020 Tokyo Olympic Games held in Okinawa. I...
2016.11.29
Four consecutive losses drop Golden Kings down to 5th place [Ryukyu Golden Kings]
The Ryukyu Golden Kings played a pair of weekend road games in Kariya, Nagoya Prefecture against Seahorse Mikawa, the top placed team in the Western Conference, and were swiped bot...
2016.11.25
Kings take beating from Kyoto Hannaryz in Wednesday game [Ryukyu Golden Kings]
The Ryukyu Golden Kings faced Kyoto Hannaryz on Wednesday night in a single match at Okinawa City Gym. Wednesday was a Japanese national holiday, but the Hannaryz team did not take...
2016.11.22
Kings split weekend against Nagoya Diamond Dolphins [Ryukyu Golden Kings]
The Ryukyu Golden Kings played against Nagoya Diamond Dolphins a series of road games last weekend in Nagoya. On Saturday, the Kings won 74-66. The game was also the debut match of...
Okinawa-born Roberts selected MLB National League Manager of the Year [Sports]
The awards for the best U.S. baseball team managers were announced Tuesday. 44-year-old Dave Roberts, who was born in Naha City was named for the Manager of the Year from the Natio...
2016.11.10
Slackline challenges sense of balance and provides good workout [Sports]
Slacklining is one of the new trends of street workouts that is gaining popularity in various parts of the world including Japan. Persons engaged in slacklining walk or balance alo...
Reyshawn Terry joins Ryukyu Golden Kings [Ryukyu Golden Kings]
The Ryukyu Golden Kings signed Nov. 7 a contract with Reyshawn Terry, a native of North Carolina, to play with the team as a forward. His first appearance on the court will be the ...
2016.11.07
Osaka beats Kings in weekend series [Ryukyu Golden Kings]
Osaka Evessa greased the floor with the Golden Kings on Saturday in front of the King’s home crowd, and the added insult to injury by scoring the winning points in the Sunday match...
Okinawa men’s team wins Karate Kata gold medal [Sports]
The Karate World Championships final was held last Sunday in Linz, Austria. At the final group competition of Kata, the Japanese men’s team won France 5 – 0, while the Japane...
Kings split weekend for second time in row [Ryukyu Golden Kings]
The Golden Kings played against Shiga Lakestars Sunday and Monday in a road game in Otsu, Shiga Prefecture, and ended up for the second time in a row with a spilt weekend series. T...
Mo Charlo, Kings separate [Ryukyu Golden Kings]
The Ryukyu Golden Kings announced that the team and forward Mo Charlo who joined the team this season, have mutually agreed to part ways. No specific reason was given. Mo Charlo, w...
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