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Last Update: September 7, 2012

News

[07/20] Campaign under way to curb plastic bag use
[07/20] Tickets for illegal parked cars improve traffic flow
[07/20] Awase development project worries Koza businesses
[07/20] Fuji gets starring role in new documentary
[07/20] Typhoon Man-Yi leaves three dead in its wake
[07/20] Two retailers join forces with trading company
[07/20] Consumers wary of imported Chinese food product safety
[07/20] Abe drops Okinawa visit to focus on earthquake
[07/20] Court rules in favor of hit and run victim
[07/20] Nago sues construction company over missing floodgate valves
[07/20] Company scams investors, then files for bankruptcy
[07/20] Driver alive after car plunges into water

Culture

Ginowan to resurrect an old, old tradition

What do Naha City, Nishihara Town, Itoman City, Yonabaru Town and Oyama have that Ginowan City doesn't? A tug-of-war, the symbol of summer in Okinawa, that's what. And Ginowan City, after a decades-long departure from the Okinawa tradition, is prepared to rejoin the tug-of-war fray on July 29th. Read More!

Winners

Japan Update Weekly Winners - 2007/07/20

Josephine Turner is this week's winner of two Y3,000 dinner tickets to Yakiniku Kinjo Restaurant in Hamby. She is born in the Philippines and has lived on Okinawa one year, a time she describes as "Very good!" She likes to go shopping and hit the beaches whenever she has time off. Read More!
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Travel

Hong Kong to become regular Okinawa flight destination

Only months after beginning charter air flights to Okinawa, Hong Kong Express Airlines has announced plans to begin commercial and cargo flights to Okinawa. The Hong Kong Express Airline Company's vice president has already visited Okinawa Governor Hirokazu Nakaima to discuss the new service, which he expects to begin in September. Read More!

Entertainment

Hot summer parties derailed by typhoon rescheduled

A three-day set of parties is being staged by World Wide Soul Music scheduled for last weekend, and deferred by Super Typhoon May-Li, is still on. In what it calls "a summer party series to beat and enjoy this steamy hot summer," the parties will take place the last weekend in July. Read More!