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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
Chinese diving company plans to launch business in Okinawa [News]
Hairun, a dive shop from Dalian, China, is planning to open a branch store on Okinawa to prepare for selling scuba diving tours packages to Chinese tourists. The aim is to attract ...
Donation to abandoned animals made easy [News]
Homme femme Inc., a company running pet shops on Okinawa, has started a campaign asking a ¥20 donation from customers. The donation is made easy and requires just a scan of a barco...
Okinawa’s teams score awards at national robot tournament [News]
The “WRO Japan 2017 Tournament” finals were held in Tokyo Sunday. The tournament is a national contest for elementary school students in robotics, the winner of which then enter th...
Okinawa has nationally highest birth rate 43rd consecutive year [News]
According to the demographic statistics of Okinawa 2016, the birth rate per the 1,000 population is 11.6, a decrease of 0.3 points from the previous year, but still the highest in ...
Kokusai Street to be closed for bomb disposal Saturday [News]
An unexploded U.S. made bomb from WWII weighing 50 kilograms was unearthed at a construction site in Matsuo 2-chome, Naha City, Wednesday. The disposal of the bomb is scheduled for...
Singer Namie Amuro announces retirement next year [News]
Namie Amuro, a popular singer from Okinawa, announced on her official website that she would retire Sep. 16 next year. 40-year-old Amuro made her debut as a member of the band “Sup...
Blue Seal renews its “Polar Bear” [News]
Foremost Blueseal Ltd. renewed for its popular cockle sand ice cream product “Polar Bear” has stopped using a double-package to make it environmentally friendlies and enhanced its ...
OCVB and Nanpo Co. collaborate in making shortbread product [News]
Nanpo Co., and Naha based bakery, and Okinawa Convention Bureau (OCVB) announced Tuesday that they have jointly developed a cookie for sale as a souvenir called “Okinawa Seaside St...
Okinawa land prices rose average 2.9% in 2016 [News]
The Okinawa Prefecture Department of Planning published Tuesday results of a survey on benchmark land prices in the prefecture as of July 1st. On average, the price of all land exc...
8-year-old boy on bicycle fatally crashes into car [News]
A car fatally crashed into a 8-year-old boy riding on a children’s bicycle with a second boy on the back at an intersection in Yonashiro, Nichihara Town Sunday afternoon. According...
Uchina Farm wine wins gold medal second time [News]
Representatives of Uchina Farm visited Itoman City Office Sep. 8 to report winning the top award at “Japan Wine Challenge 2017”, Asia’s oldest, largest and most prestigious wine co...
Okinawa coffee shop owner wins coffee roasting championship [News]
38-year-old Yoshiyuki Nakamura, the owner of “Mame Polepole” home-roast coffee shop, is the first person from Okinawa to become the Japan Coffee Roasting Champion at a contest held...
Four boys nabbed for vandalizing Chibichiri Gama [News]
Kadena Police have arrested four boys on suspicion of vandalizing Chibichiri Gama cave in Namihira, Yomitan Village. The cave is a memorial for 85 local people who committed mass s...
43rd National Tree Planting Ceremony at Convention Center [News]
Okinawa Prefecture announced Thursday the holding of “The 43rd National Tree Planting Ceremony” at Okinawa Convention Center in the fall of 2019. A ceremony called “Oteue-shiki” to...
Young student dies of acute alcohol poisoning [News]
A 18-year-old student of Senshu University from Tokyo visiting Okinawa died of acute alcohol poisoning, Wednesday. The male student was staying at a bed and breakfast facility in O...
Itoman Farmers’ Market reaches 100-million visitor mark [News]
The number of visitors to “Farmers Market Itoman Umanchu Ichiba” since its opening exceeded 100 million on Wednesday. The JA Okinawa operated market opened about 15 years ago. The ...
Vandals damage Chibichiri-Gama cave [News]
A person or persons had broken into Chibichiri-Gama (cave) in Namihira, Yomitan Village, damaging the site. The site is a memorial where 85 people committed a mass suicide during t...
Okinawa fathers best in “family love” in Japan [News]
According to results of a survey “Ten thousand fathers in Japan” by Asahi Soft Drinks Co., Ltd., fathers in Okinawa were deemed to have the biggest love to their family, spending m...
Participants sought for Miss Okinawa 2018 pageant [News]
The Okinawa Convention and Visitors Bureau (OCVB) has started accepting applications for Miss Okinawa 2018 pageant. The new Miss Okinawa will be responsible for promoting the attra...
Concrete-block wall collapse crushes woman to death [News]
A concrete-block wall that workers were demolishing collapsed on the yard of a private house in Kiyuna, Ginowan City, Sunday morning, burying 84-year-old resident of the house. Acc...
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