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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
Hiroshima Carp donates ¥100 million to Okinawa City [Sports]
Hiroshima Toyo Carp, a Japanese professional baseball team, made a donation of ¥100 million to Okinawa City on Monday. In a press conference on Tuesday, Okinawa City Mayor Sachio K...
First time participants win Sunday’s Okinawa Marathon [Sports]
The 24th Okinawa Marathon took place Sunday in the central part of the island with both start and finish line at the Okinawa Prefecture Comprehensive Athletic Park in Okinawa City....
2016.02.18
Marathon runners take over roads Sunday in central Okinawa [Sports]
The 24th Okinawa Marathon this Sunday is the second largest road race on the island after Naha Marathon that attracted more than 11,000 runners last year to the starting line at Ok...
Japan’s national women’s soccer team holds camp [Sports]
Nadeshiko Japan, the Japanese national women’s soccer team, preparing for the final Asian qualifier matches for the Rio de Janeiro Olympics, has been conducting a training camp at ...
Yomiuri Giants start annual spring training camp in Naha [Sports]
Arguably the most storied team in the Japanese professional baseball, Yomiuri Giants, started its annual training camp at Cellular Stadium in Onoyama, Naha City on Feb. 16th. This ...
Karate gets own division in Okinawa government [Sports]
The Okinawa Prefectural Government has decided to set up a new division to promote karate and ancient Japanese martial arts. The new division that will start working from April wil...
2016.02.11
Kings drop to third place after splitting weekend series against Kyoto [Ryukyu Golden Kings]
The weekend pair of on-the-road games against Kyoto Hannaryz started well enough for the Ryukyu Golden Kings as they won the Saturday’s game 84-76 in front The game was pure ecstas...
2016.02.03
Kings split home series against Oita-Ehime Heat Devils [Ryukyu Golden Kings]
3,746 people were in audience on Saturday to witness the Ryukyu Golden Kings to win handsomely 101-80 on their home turf against visiting Oita-Ehime Heat Devils. However, the home ...
Runners invited to Nanbu Trim Marathon [Sports]
The 28th Nanbu Trim Marathon is scheduled to take place Sunday, Mar. 20th. The trim marathon was first organized in April 1989, and has by now grown to become one of the largest fa...
2016.02.01
Okinawa welcomes annual baseball spring training camps [Sports]
As February begins, so begin the annual Japanese pro-baseball spring camps on Okinawa. During the month, nine of the 12 Japanese top league professional baseball teams will hold th...
Kume Island Triathlon invites participants [Sports]
The 2nd Kume Island Triathlon scheduled for Sunday, Feb. 28th, is now accepting registrations for participants through Jan. 31st. The race is touted as being the earliest triathlon...
2016.01.28
Golden Kings’ Shuhei Kitagawa elected TKbj-League MVP of the Week [Ryukyu Golden Kings]
Shuhei Kitagawa of the Ryukyu Golden Kings was elected the TKbj-League MVP of the Week on the week of Jan. 2nd to 19th for his performance in the Kings’ home game against Hamamatsu...
2016.01.28
Minions to take over Bibi Beach in March Funrun & Music Festival [Sports]
‘Minions’ are a set of characters based on a 2015 Universal Pictures film that, despite of a rather damning view of most critics, went on to become the 11th highest grossing film o...
Runners sougth for Round Iejima Marathon [Sports]
The 24th Round the Iejima Marathon is now accepting registrations through Feb. 10th. The running event consists of four races; 3 km, 5 km and 10 km road races and a half marathon. ...
2016.01.19
Golden Kings back on second place in Western Conference [Ryukyu Golden Kings]
The Ryukyu Golden Kings delighted their fans on their home court in Okinawa City Gym by winning both games of the weekend series. That also means that the team is back on the secon...
J-League teams to start winter training on Okinawa [Sports]
Okinawa is getting more popular by the year as a location for professional sports teams’ winter training camps. 17 top soccer teams of men’s professional J-League are scheduled to ...
2016.01.06
Kings splits New Year series with Kanazawa Samuraiz [Ryukyu Golden Kings]
The Ryukyu Golden Kings started their new year with a somewhat less auspicious way as they lost their first match of the year against Kanazawa Samuraiz 84-86 at Okinawa City Gym on...
Japan’s judo team holds training camp in Tomigusuku [Sports]
The 24 members of Japanese men’s national judo team came to Okinawa Jan. 4th to train for the Olympic Games in Rio de Janeiro scheduled for this summer. The team is holding a five-...
2015.12.29
Golden Kings bring present of two wins from Christmas game series [Ryukyu Golden Kings]
In the year’s last series of matches, the Ryukyu Golden Kings, playing on the road, presented a Christmas gift to their fans by winning both contests against Yokohama B-Corsairs. T...
2015.12.22
Golden Kings again split weekend road game series [Ryukyu Golden Kings]
The Ryukyu Golden Kings were against the Fukushima Firebonds in the weekend game series that was played at Koriyama Sogo Gymnasium in Fukushima Prefecture. Things quite did not go ...
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