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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
Teenage boy dies in motorbike accident [News]
A 15-year-old boy died when he hit his head on the road after a 125cc motorbike he was riding with two other teenagers hit a road curb and fell down about midnight Saturday. In add...
Woman arrested on charges of attempted murder [News]
Ginowan Police arrested 24-year-olf Rio Garcia Friday on suspicion of attempted murder. She is suspected of stabbing her 29-year-old boyfriend on the right side of his chest in an ...
Hackers deface websites of local companies [News]
Okinawa Prefectural Police Cyber Crime Control Office warned Thursday that there have been many cases of Okinawan business websites being attacked and defaced, prompting the police...
Naha City surveying private vacation rentals [News]
Naha City allocated \5 million for a survey of private vacation rentals in its draft budget for fiscal 2017. The city aims to execute the survey using a one-time lump sum that will...
Uruma Municipal Office receives excellence award [News]
The Uruma Municipal Office in the East Building of the City Office, the construction of which was completed at the end of 2015, has been awarded a special award by the Architectura...
Woman takes ¥21.9 million by fraud [News]
Ginowan Police sent papers concerning a criminal case against 43-year-old Asaka Higa to Naha District Public Prosecutors Office on Monday. Higa is suspected of cheating a total of ...
Restaurant, three other Okinawa facilities picked for top 100 list [News]
“Suitenrou,” a restaurant serving traditional Ryukyu cuisine on Kokusai Street in Naha, was selected for the first time to the list called “The Pros’ Recommended Top 100 Facilities...
111 people involved in marine accidents in 2016 [News]
According to the 11th Regional Coast Guard Headquarters statistics, 111 people were involved in marine-activity related accidents in Okinawa in 2016. The number is the highest sinc...
Okinawan gelato wins 2nd prize at worldwide fair [News]
Masaya Yonemori, a 21-year-old gelato store manager from Tomigusuku, won the second prize in the free style category at SIGEP 2017 International, an annual trade fair dedicated to ...
Large rock from quarry hits public hall in Nago [News]
A large rock slipped down from a quarry in Nago around noon Thursday, an hit the wall of “Buumakami Asagi Hall” about 80 meters below. No one was injured, but a water pipe in the h...
U.S. Marine arrested for DUI [News]
Tomigusuku Police arrested 20-year old LCpl Melvin Leonard Nunes Sunday on suspicion of driving under influence. According to police, Nunes has admitted to the charge saying, “I su...
Dependent son of U.S. Marine arrested for robbery [News]
Police have arrested a 18-year-old high school boy, a son of a Marine stationed on Okinawa on suspicion of a robbery and theft. According to Okinawa police, the owner of a deli cal...
189 passengers stranded on KAB for 2.5 hours [News]
Because of a mishap by JASDF fighter aircraft caused the temporary closure of the runway at Naha Airport, Japan Airlines flight 909 from Haneda to Naha was diverted to Kadena Air B...
JASDF fighter mishap closes Naha airport for 2 hours [News]
Naha Airport was closed for about two hours Monday afternoon after the front wheel of a Japan Air Self Defense Force F15FJ fighter jet came off just as the aircraft was about to ta...
All-electric houses to get 10% cut in power bills [News]
The Okinawa Electric Power Company announced Friday that it’s revising the pricing plan for all-electric houses from April 1st. Currently, there are three different pricing plans f...
Two in Okinawa win ¥100 million in year-end lottery [News]
Mizuho Bank Lottery services division announced Sunday that two people won ¥100 million in the year-end nationwide lottery. Both winning tickets had been sold in Nago, Tickets for ...
Urasoe man arrested for stalking [News]
Urasoe Police arrested a 36-year-old Urasoe man on suspicion of violating the nation’s recently revised anti-stalking laws. According to Police, 36-year-old Shinichi Komuda was arr...
Okinawa on top of DUI stats for 27th consecutive year [News]
Okinawa Prefectural Police Traffic Planning Division has announced that a total of 5,491 traffic accidents occurred in Okinawa in 2016. 109 of the accidents were related to consump...
Okinawa Latina to hold music auditions for overseas Japanese [News]
Music event “Okinawa Latina,” produced by Albert Shiroma, the leader of Latin music band Diamantes, has started a project to discover and recruit talented artists of Japanese desce...
Piece of earthenware from eastern Japan found in Chatan [News]
Chatan City Board of Education announced Tuesday that a piece of earthenware found in Hanzanbaru B excavation site in Chatan possibly comes from an earthenware of Ohhorakei of the ...
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