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Three main events headline Sunday’s Tenk… [Sports]
Jujitsu skills are on display Sunday afternoon at the Tenkaichi Super Fights in Koza Music Town, when the welterweight title match is on the...Read More
New Naval Hospital opens era of increase… [Military]
By Bill Charles From tents to Quonset huts to a four-story concrete building to a new multi-million dollar U.S. Naval Hospital just opened o...Read More
Akebono, Keiji Mutoh headline Pro Wrestl… [Sports]
Akebono’s moved from sumo to wrestling, and he’s on one of seven professional wrestling cards March 20th at Okinawa Comprehensive Athletic P...Read More
Yokohama outlasts Fukuoka to win BJL championship [Sports]
The Yokohama B-Corsairs fought long and hard Sunday afternoon to outplay the Rizing Fukuoka and set some records while winning the Basketball Japan League championship. For starter...
2013.05.24
Home-grown boy named Golden Kings head coach [CURRENT ISSUE Sports]
Little more than a week after the Ryukyu Golden Kings were stunned and eliminated from the Basketball Japan League championship series, management has shaken things up by replacing...
Marine Corps Base Butler wins 2013 environmental award [Military]
Marine Corps Base Camp Smedley D. Butler’s environmental program has been recognized by the Department of Defense as part of the 2013 Secretary of Defense Environmental Award...
2013.05.23
Unidentified submarine spotted near Okinawa [News]
Japan’s Defense Ministry confirms a submerged submarine was spotted near Okinawa several days ago, but won’t spill details on whose country it comes from. Defense Minister Itsunori...
LDP can’t get Okinawa chapter support [Politics]
The ruling Liberal Democratic Party and its local chapter in Okinawa Prefecture are at odds over how the relocation of the U.S. Marine Corps’ Futenma base should be handled i...
House Councilors election candidates come forward [Politics]
Three hopefuls are announced to start their campaigns to compete for the single seat that Okinawa has available in the next House of Councilors or Upper House of the Diet election ...
ANA expanding its air cargo network [Business]
All Nippon Airways, better known as ANA, has announced the start of two new air cargo lines with Naha Airport as its hub, from August 28th, one domestic and one international. The ...
Fireflies show up at Kijoka [News]
Fireflies have appeared at the Kijyoka district of Ogimi Village marking the start of the rainy season in Okinawa. In the northern part of Okinawa, first fireflies were observed in...
2013.05.23
And this week’s winner is… [Weekly Winners]
The lucky winner of this week’s JU raffle is Nguyen Trinh, who won ¥2,500 worth of meal tickets to Balinese Restaurant Sama Sama in Hamby. Trinh is from Philadelphia, PA, and has b...
Man kills acquaintance with concrete block [News]
Naha police arrested a man suspected of killing his acquaintance by throwing a concrete block that hit the man’s head in the evening of May 16. According to investigators, 52...
Two bodies found in ocean [News]
A man who had gone fishing from a breakwater at Naha New Port, called the police emergency number reporting something that looked like a human-shaped doll or mannequin floating off...
Heavy rainfall, lightning strike cause damage [News]
Okinawa main island experienced heavy rainfall and thunderstorm on May 15 that caused some damage and power outages in Naha and Urasoe areas. In Matsuo, Naha City, a part of retain...
Fire at Uruma kills one [News]
A concrete two-story house caught fire in Kanekadan in Uruma City, Saturday evening. Uruma City Fire Department sent four fire engines, and two ambulances to the scene after they r...
Japan Coast Guard enhances Okinawa operations [News]
Japan Coast Guard, formerly known as the Maritime Safety Agency, has now a new office in Naha tasked with providing security in the area west of Okinawa. Specifically, the new offi...
2013.05.19
Koza Street Dance Festa looking for a champion [Sports]
Entrants are still being sought for the Saturday, May 25th Koza Street Dance Festa taking place in the Music Space in Koza Music Town Oto-Ichiba. Entries are being accepted 11:30 a...
2013.05.19
Karate Tournament heading to Ginowan [Sports]
The main arena of the Ginowan Civic Gymnasium is the venue for the Fighting Karate Open Tournament on May 26th. Doors to the Sunday events, which are free to the public, open at 9 ...
Futenma relocation timeline again slipping [News]
A senior U.S. Marine Corps officer has hinted that the site of an air base in Okinawa Prefecture may not be returned to Japan in fiscal 2022, the earliest possible time the United ...
U.S. recognizes Japan sovereignty over Okinawa [Politics]
The United States recognizes Japanese sovereignty over Okinawa, a Department of State spokesman said Thursday. Patrick Ventrell, the department’s acting deputy spokesman, mad...
Se-fa Utaki breaks visitor record during Golden Week [News]
One of the most important holy places of the Ryukyu Kingdom, “Se-fa Utaki” in Nanjo City, counted the highest number of visitors in one day on May 4 when 3,146 people visited the s...
Large hime habu captured in Kunigami [News]
Yasuhiro Makishi captured an unusually large Himehabu snake (Okinawa pit viper) on a forest road in the Sosu district of Kunigami Village around 2 a.m. on May 13. According to a pr...
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