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Okinawa Beach Opening Information 2025 [Nature & Environment News]
Okinawa Beach Opening Information 2025 Ginowan Tropical Beach (Apr. 26) Chatan Sunset Beach (Apr. 11) Chatan Araha Beach (Mid. Apr.) Nish...Read More
OkiEvents This Week!! [CURRENT ISSUE ENTERTAINMENT Festival News]
・11/26 Nago Autumn Fireworks Festival @ Nago Fishing Port 17:00~21:00 (Fireworks 20:00~) Free to enter https://r.goope.jp/srb-47-37/info/479...Read More
The Okinawa Zoo needs your help [News]
The Okinawa Zoo is now asking for Crowd-Funding support in order to raise money to help feed the animals at the zoo. Due to COVID19, attenda...Read More
Teddy bears made of abaca cloth preserve tradition [News]
Abaca cloth, a traditional textile in Okinawa with hundreds of years of history since the times of the Ryukyu Kingdom, is still made in small workshops here and its weavers are con...
U.S. military grants to Japanese universities [News]
According to an analysis of documents of the U.S. Department of Defense, the U.S. military had paid researchers at Japanese universities and public organizations at least ¥880 mill...
12-year-old driver DUI in fatal motorbike crash [News]
Investigators have determined that a 12-year-old boy was the driver in a motorcycle crash that occurred on Feb. 12th on Highway 58 in Yamada, Onna Village, in which a 15-year-old b...
New multilingual Kokusai Street map now available [News]
To meet needs of an increasing number of foreign tourists, the Naha City Kokusai Shopping Street Promotion Association has created a map of Kokusai Street in English, Chinese, and ...
Government “Premium Friday” campaign starts Friday [News]
A government-launched campaign called “Premium Friday” to urge Japanese civil servants and office workers to leave the office earlier, like 3 or 4 p.m., on the last Friday of every...
Sidewalk on Hwy 58 collapses because of corroded drainpipe [News]
A garbage truck got stuck in a sinkhole about 3 a.m. when a part of the sidewalk along Highway 58 collapsed in Ginowan. The driver of the struck made an emergency call to Ginowan P...
Makishi Public Market website goes multilingual [News]
Tomomitsu Aguni, the head of Naha City Makishi Public Market Merchants Union, and Hiroshi Shimada, the CEO of Tida Square, a company that manages “Tida Blog” website, announced Fri...
Whale carcass found on beach in Kadena [News]
A carcass of a whale was found on a beach in Kaneku Kaihin Park in Kadena Town on Sunday. According to the staff from Okinawa Churashima Foundation who inspected the carcass on the...
U.S. Army corporal nabbed on suspicion of DUI [News]
Tomigusuku Police arrested a 23-year-old U.S. Army corporal on suspicion of DUI early Sunday morning in Naha. According to police, a police patrol stopped U.S. Army Cpl. Evan DeAnd...
Three killed in weekend motorbike accidents [News]
Three men were killed in two separate motorbike accidents on Sunday. Two motorcycles crashed into a mini car making a U-turn on Highway 58 at Kina, Yomitan Village, Sunday afternoo...
2/3 of working women don’t take maternity leave [News]
The Okinawa General Bureau announced the results of a survey of women in their 20’s to 40’s living in Okinawa. According to the survey, 75.5% of the women had left or changed the c...
School office worker found embezzling from PTA [News]
Officials at a high school in the mid-island area announced Thursday that a female temporary office worker had embezzled ¥232,574 from the school PTA and School Safety Promotion As...
Okinawa City looks for private residences to alleviate lodging shortages [News]
Okinawa City Tourism & Products Association is planning to implement an “Event Vacation Rental” program, the first of its kind in Okinawa in conjunction with “Hiroshima Toyo C...
Nago Municipal Stadium to be demolished next month [News]
Th Nago Municipal Stadium, famous for hosting the Nippon Ham Fighters pro baseball team during their spring training camp for a long time, will be demolished after this year spring...
New Naha Makishi Public Market to open in 2022 [News]
A plan to re-develop the Makishi Public Market in the Heiwa Dori area of Naha City has been in the works for years, and the city finally published a schedule for the redevelopment ...
Vietnamese man arrested for attempted murder [News]
Naha Police arrested Tran Van Kwan, a 24-year-old Vietnamese national, Monday, on suspicion of attempted murder of a 22-year-old Vietnamese student. According to Naha Police, Kwan ...
Okinawa Comprehensive Park gets brick pizza oven [News]
Visitors to Okinawa Comprehensive Park camping site can now try their hand in baking their own pizzas. A sampling party was held at the camping site in Okinawa Comprehensive Athlet...
Teacher arrested for paying underage girl for sex [News]
Ginowan Police has arrested a junior high school teacher on suspicion of indecent acts with a minor. According to police, 43-year-old Yoshinori Shinzato, a teacher at a public juni...
Nepali student found dead after fall from balcony [News]
A 21-year-old student of Japanese language from Nepal was found dead lying on a sidewalk in front of a student dormitory on Highway 58 in Nakanishi, Urasoe City early Tuesday morni...
Elderly school bus driver arrested for hit-and-run [News]
Yonabaru Police arrested a male 73-year-old school bus driver Friday on suspicion of hitting a parked car and then driving away from the scene. No one was injured in the accident. ...
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