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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
Arashiro 27th in Rio Olympics bicycle road race [Sports]
Two competitors from Okinawa representing Japan took part in men’s bicycle road race in the Rio Olympics on Aug. 6th. Yukiya Arashiro finished the race in 6 hours 19 minutes and 43...
2016.08.03
Far East Bodybuilding Competition presents ‘Beasts of the East’ [Sports]
The MCCS Far East Bodybuilding competition is known as one of Semper Fit’s biggest events of the year and after a four-year hiatus, it finally returned last year. This year, it’s b...
Urashiro elementary school girls’ team wins Japan handball title [Sports]
Urashiro Elementary School Girls’ Handball Club from Urasoe City won the Japan National Elementary School Handball Championship Tournament at Tanabe Central Athletic Gym in Kyoto P...
Sumo tournament in Okinawa scheduled for December [Sports]
A grand sumo tournament is scheduled for Okinawa Convention Center in Ginowan, on Dec. 17 and 18, 2016. The Japan Sumo Association decided to organize the tournament on Okinawa bec...
2016.07.28
FC Ryukyu and Ryukyu Bank host soccer festival 2016 [Sports]
Bank of the Ryukyus presents the Okinawa Island-wide Soccer Festival 2016 that takes place at Okinawa Comprehensive Athletic Park on July 31st. The stadium was renovated one and ha...
Kadena High School to represent Okinawa at Koshien [Sports]
The Kadena High School baseball team from Kadena Town earned the coveted trip to play at the 98th Japanese National High School Baseball Championship Tournament at Koshien Stadium ...
Kishimoto chosen to Japan National Basketball team [Sports]
Japan Basketball Association announced Monday the names of 14 members for the national team to play in the 38th Men’s William Jones Cup tournament, which runs from July 23rd throug...
3rd generation Okinawan to represent Brazil in judo [Sports]
26-year-old Charles Chibana, whose grand parents emigrated from Yomitan Village to Brazil, has been selected to the national judo team of Brazil to represent his country at the Rio...
Okinawan boxer wins OPBF championship [Sports]
Daigo Higa, a 20-year-old pro-boxer from Urasoe, won the Oriental and Pacific Boxing Federation (OPBF) Championship title in a match held at the Kourakuen Hall in Tokyo on July 2nd...
Golden Kings contracts new forward for season 2016-17 [Ryukyu Golden Kings]
The Ryukyu Golden Kings announced June 28th the addition of 23-year-old Naoki Tashiro from Chiba Prefecture to the team roster. Tashiro is 190 cm tall, weighs 90 kg and will play a...
Player from Okinawa elected to Japan Olympic Volleyball Team [Sports]
Japan National Volleyball Association announced Monday the selection of the 12 members of the national team in women’s volleyball in the Rio Olympic Games. Kotoki Zayasu, a 26-year...
Three Golden Kings’ players leave team [Ryukyu Golden Kings]
The Ryukyu Golden Kings, Okinawa’s pro-basketball team, scheduled to join the first division of the new unified Japanese pro-basketball league called B.League, announced that three...
2016.06.20
International Sports Day wants participants [Sports]
Ginowan City International Friendship Exchange Association and Okinawa NGO Center are organizing a Global Sports Day on Saturday, Jul. 2. The event will take place at Ginowan City ...
Hiroto to challenge World Lightweight title in July [Sports]
Hiroto Nema, a 32-year-old MMA fighter from Ishigaki who uses his first name only in the ring, is aiming to win the World Lightweight title in the match scheduled for Koza Music To...
Yomitan woman sets new world record in freediving [Sports]
A Yomitan woman set a new world record in a freediving competition held at the end of April in the Bahamas. 27-year-old Sayuri Kinoshita from Yomitan, Okinawa, set a new world reco...
Okinawan weightlifter Yoichi Itokazu earns ticket to Rio [Sports]
The Japan Weightlifting Association announced May 28th that Yoichi Itokazu from Okinawa was selected to compete in men’s 62-kg division in the Rio de Janeiro Olympic Games in Augus...
Golden Kings to face Alvark Tokyo in B. League opening game [Ryukyu Golden Kings]
The Japanese pro-basketball is opening a new era his fall when the new B’ League takes off in September. The Ryukyu Golden Kings will face Toyota Alvark Tokyo in the opening games ...
Okinawa City to build Kings’ arena on bullfighting ring site [Sports]
Okinawa City will build a new, large multi-purpose arena on the site of the current bullfighting ring in the Yamauchi area of the city. The new arena is a part of a project agreed ...
2016.05.17
Golden Kings capture final championship of bj-League [Ryukyu Golden Kings]
The Ryukyu Golden Kings, the home pro-basketball team of Okinawa, grabbed the championship of the TKbj-League, Sunday, at Tokyo Ariake Coliseum. This was the final season of the le...
TK bj-league finals play out this weekend [Sports]
Japan’s two rival pro-basketball leagues, the TKbj-League and NBL, the National Basketball League, will be unified for season 2016-17 into one professional top league called B. Lea...
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