May 23, 2014 Wu Li Jun of Ryukyu Shimpo
Tianjin Airlines, based in Tianjin, China, will operate its charter flights to Naha from June 1. Charter flights by Tianjin Airlines will run every Thursday and Sunday for one year.
Since September 2012, when the relationship between Japan and China began to worsen after the Japanese government nationalized the disputed Senkaku Islands, this is the first charter flight to Okinawa that the government of China has approved. It is also the airline’s...
May 21 2014 Ryukyu Shimpo
The Okinawa Prefectural Government (OPG) announced a plan to attract more tourists to Okinawa in the 2014 fiscal year on May 20. The government has aimed to attract 6.9 million tourists to Okinawa. The number has increased by 4.9 percent from the number of tourists...
May 15, 2014 Ryukyu Shimpo
All Nippon Airways (ANA) has started new cargo flights between Okinawa and Singapore as part of its international cargo project. The cargo flight on this route left for Singapore at 5:00 a.m. on April 14.
There will be six flights per week from Okinawa, with...
May 19, 2014 Ryukyu Shimpo
The world’s largest convenience store operator Seven-Eleven, Inc. plans to tap into markets in Okinawa. The company is negotiating with Okinawan companies about affiliating, building stores, and acquiring factories.
Seven-Eleven is targeting Okinawa as...
May 16, 2014 Ryukyu Shimpo
In fiscal 2014, the Okinawa Prefectural Government (OPG) will work on a project to train people who speak foreign languages to become diving guides.
The OPG aims to equip job seekers who can speak foreign languages with the diving expertise and skills needed...
May 13, 2014 Ryukyu Shimpo
Three mega solar power plants, constructed by the Orion Beer company in Okinawa, have been switched on. On May 12, at the Orion Arashiyama Mega Solar Power Plant at Kogachi, Nago, the company held an opening and celebration. Orion Beer is the first food and beverage...
May 6, 2014 Ken Sasaki of Ryukyu Shimpo
An Okinawa resident and game creator Ryo Agarie has co-developed a top-ranking smartphone game app, working from his home in Naha. Since it was sold this February, the Japanese-mythology themed puzzle game is currently first place out of 19 countries...
April 27, 2014 Ryukyu Shimpo
The Okinawa Churashima Foundation opened an Okinawa Churaumi Aquarium merchandise shop on Kokusai Street in Kumoji district of Naha on April 26. Many people visited the shop to buy products that were previously only sold at the aquarium and in the Yambaru areas...
April 22, 2014 Ryukyu Shimpo
On April 21, the Okinawa Prefectural Government announced the number of tourists who visited Okinawa from April 2013 to March 2014 was 6,580,300, a new annual record. This represents an 11.1 percent increase from the previous year. It exceeded the previous record...
April 25, 2014 Ryukyu Shimpo
The Singapore-based Tuttle Publishing Company published an English tourist guidebook on Okinawa Okinawa and the Ryukyu Islands on April 24. The book targets foreign tourists visiting Japan and Okinawa. The company plans to publish 16 countries and regions...
April 25, 2014 Ryukyu Shimpo
Hotels and travel agencies expect a bumper Golden Week this year, with an increase in domestic and international tourists.
According to JTB Okinawa, domestic customers’ bookings for hotels in Okinawa were up about 20 percent from the same period last...
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