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・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
Flu season begins [News]
The Ministry of Health, Labor and Welfare announced Dec. 1st that the seasonal flu epidemic has started, a little earlier than average. According to the ministry, the number of peo...
New website “Live Nuchigusui” introduces hands-on Okinawa [News]
Okinawa Prefecture has opened a new campaign website “Live Nuchigusui”. The website features the rich culture of Okinawa, and distributes information on available hands-on experien...
Civil servant arrested for sex with minor [News]
Ginowan Police arrested 64-year-old Toru Akachi, the chief engineer at the Prefectural Agriculture Research Center, Monday, on suspicion of “indecent act” with a 16-year-old female...
Okinawa City revokes Kurashiki Kankyo waste disposal license [News]
Okinawa City revoked Tuesday the business license of Kurashiki Kankyo, a waste service and industrial waste collection and transportation company. The company license had already b...
Princess Sarali Kitiyakara of Thailand tours Okinawa [News]
Princess Sarali Kitiyakara, a member of the Thai royal family and a TV personality, arrived at Okinawa Monday to make a TV program of overseas travel for the Thai national TV. She ...
Weightlifter Yoichi Itokazu wins silver in World Championships [News]
Yoichi Itokazu, a 26-year-old weightlifter from Nanjo City, Okinawa, won a silver medal in the Weightlifting World Championships held in Anaheim, California, in the men’s 62-kilogr...
Motorcyclists victims in 24 of total 41 fatal traffic accidents [News]
According to Okinawa Prefectural Police, there have been 41 fatal traffic accidents this year in the prefecture as of Nov. 29, and motorcycles have been involved in 24 of them. Thi...
Tomigusuku Police wants sleeping drunks off streets [News]
Tomigusuku Police issued Thursday a notice warning people found sleeping on city’s streets that anyone who is found for the third time passed out drunk will be arrested for traffic...
Foreign Minister wants Okinawan students in DoD schools [News]
The Japanese Foreign Minister has proposed starting a discussion with the US. military about allowing a number of Japanese students in Okinawa to attend DoD schools on U.S. militar...
“Noudai Burger” highlights Agricultural College Festival [News]
The 15th Okinawa Prefectural Agricultural College Festival is scheduled for Dec. 2. Visitors to the festival will be able to enjoy shopping green groceries, flowers and Japanese be...
Three Japanese men nabbed for targeting “foreigners” for theft [News]
The Okinawa Prefectural Police announced Monday the arrest and prosecution of three Japanese men who repeatedly entered and stole money and property from apartments of U.S. Militar...
Prefecture mulls introducing new “Lodging tax” in 2021 [News]
Okinawa Prefecture has restarted studying a new tax on tourism industry in fiscal 2021. Under consideration are three alternative taxes – “entry tax” for arriving tourists, “...
Number of single households exceed family households in Okinawa [News]
According to the national census of 2015, “one-person households” in Okinawa account for 32.4%, of the total exceeding the number of “households consisting of a couple and their ch...
Okinawa’s young women like traveling overseas [News]
17.7 percent of Okinawan women in their 20’s traveled overseas in 2016 making them the number one such group in the nation. Younger women in their early 20’s were on the fourth pla...
Okinawa-based fishing boat capsizes, seven crew missing [News]
A Naha Fisheries Association long-line tuna fishing boat was found capsized off Palau with all of its seven crew members missing. The 11th Regional Coast Guard Headquarters announc...
Lt.Gen. Nicholson apologizes Gov. Onaga for fatal accident [News]
Lt. Gen. Lawrence Nicholson, the head of U.S. forces in Okinawa, visited the Prefectural Office Monday afternoon to apologize for a fatal drunk driving accident caused by a U.S. Ma...
30 U.S. military personnel-owned cars smeared with graffiti [News]
About 30 Y-number cars of the U.S. military personnel and walls of their off-base residences were found Sunday smeared with graffiti in Chatan Town and Ginowan City. Okinawa Prefec...
Okinawan Frozen Beniimo Cheesecake Chinsuko wins Snack Grand Prix [News]
The 7th Nippon Local Snack Exhibition was held in Tokyo from Nov. 17th to 19th attracting products from all over Japan. The Frozen Beniimo Cheesecake Chinsuko cookie made by Ryukyu...
Sugar Train to open night show theater [News]
Sugar Train, Inc., an entertainment planning and production company that stages plays and events in Naha, is planning to open its own permanent theater in the middle part of Okinaw...
Tornado suspected at Peace Memorial Park Friday [News]
A broken prefab hut and fallen trees that were discovered at the Peace Memorial Park in Itoman Saturday morning are suspected of being damaged by a tornado sometime Friday evening....
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