January 10, 2019 Ryukyu Shimpo
MRO Japan, who operates the aircraft maintenance facility at Naha Airport, began their aircraft maintenance business January 7. On January 9, the company invited various media outlets to come and see the business in operation. They plan on receiving 20 planes for servicing through the end of March.In the future, the company is looking to start receiving aircraft for maintenance from the wider Asian region. The company has plans to hire locally within Okinawa.On...
December 16, 2018 Ryukyu Shimpo
The Shimojishima Airport Management Co., Ltd. (SAMCO, Kentaro Tomono, Representative Director) in Miyakojima, which is set to open a passenger terminal at Shimojishima Airport on March 30, 2019, is working with around ten airlines to establish new...
December 6, 2018 Ryukyu Shimpo
By Taichi Hirayasu
A new plan is being put into action to increase the consumption of Ryukyu Awamori, which has seen a recent downward trend in consumption, by promoting exports.
In addition to the “Ryukyu Awamori Export Project,”...
November 22, 2018 Ryukyu Shimpo
By Ryota Nakamura
Couples that come to Okinawa from abroad to submit their wedding registration and receive their wedding certificates in civil ceremonies referred to as “legal weddings” continues to increase and is taking hold on the island. In 2017,...
October 23, 2018 Ryukyu Shimpo
The Okinawa Resort Wedding Committee (Yoshiaki Ogawa, spokesperson), made up of representatives from wedding-industry companies, has been working to develop the Chinese market. The committee is looking to establish a “Resort Wedding Tourism” business model...
October 16, 2018 Ryukyu Shimpo
Okinawa Prefecture, who along with Mitsubishi Estate Co., Ltd. and Miyakojima City have been working to renovate the passenger terminal facilities at Shimoji-shima Airport, held a press conference October 15 at the Okinawa Prefectural...
August 28, 2018 Ryukyu Shimpo
By Taichi Hirayasu
“Martial Arts Tourism,” the new tourism initiative in Okinawa that hopes to attract Karate-ka from all over the world for things such as training, has been garnering a lot of attention.
There are...
July 24, 2018 by Ryukyu Shimpo
The Okinawa Department of Culture, Tourism, and Sports announced the results of their Okinawan resident tourism awareness survey July 23.
This is the first time the department has conducted such a survey on Okinawan residents.
When...
July 14, 2018 Ryukyu Shimpo
The Daiichi Koutsu Sangyo Co. Ltd. is participating in a plan to run a high-speed ferry connecting Naha and Motobu Ports.
With the increase of rental cars used by tourists visiting Okinawa, congestion on the roads continue to worsen,...
July 1 2018 Ryukyu Shimpo
The Okinawa Convention & Visitors Bureau (OCVB), which promotes an initiative that invites students from abroad for educational travel, reported on June 30 that the number of students who came to Okinawa in 2017, as far as the OCVB know,...
April 14, 2018 Ryukyu Shimpo
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