December 13, 2013 Ryukyu Shimpo
Night-time illumination has started at the American Village in Mihama, Chatan. It will run until the end of February 2014.
Visitors can enjoy the decorations during the day and a spot for taking photographs has been set up in front of the Ferris wheel. The opening ceremony attracted many...
December 6, 2013 Ryukyu Shimpo
The charter cruise ship the Costa Atlantica (about 85,000 tons), carrying 2,389 Chinese tourists, called at Naha Port on December 5. Visits by Chinese charter cruise ships were cancelled when the Senkaku Islands dispute occurred, so this is the first visit in...
December 4, 2013 Ryukyu Shimpo
Yanbaru Harusaa’s Table Kaito＋, a cafe located within the Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology (OIST), has won the excellence award in the sales and consumer promotion section of Food Action Nippon 2013. Food Action Nippon is a project designed to recognize...
November 27, 2013 Wu Li Jun of Ryukyu Shimpo
The Okinawa Convention and Visitors Bureau (OCVB) has called upon Okinawa companies to improve their translated materials and public wireless network (WiFi). The bureau aims to enhance the level of hospitality provided for foreign tourists. As of...
November 29, 2013 Ryukyu Shimpo
The shipping of Japanese tiger prawns has begun in Okinawa before entering the month of December. Prawns are popular as year-end gifts.
Staff at the Ginoza Prawn Farm were busy on November 28 picking and boxing the prawns caught in the local outdoor aquafarm....
November 19, 2013 Ryukyu Shimpo
The kariyushi shirt market remains strong. According to the Okinawa Clothing Sewing and Manufacturing Industrial Association, the shipping volume of these shirts from January to October totaled 398,413 items, which breaks the record of 385,965 set in...
November 14, 2013 Ryukyu Shimpo
Travel agency H.I.S. plans to charter direct flights between Naha and the cities of Vladivostok and Khabarovsk in the Russian Far East for six months from mid-May 2014. The first program charter between Russia and Okinawa, it will involve four flights a week,...
November 13, 2013 Ryukyu Shimpo
The Naha City-based Okinawa Tourist Service has issued an English version of the booklet entitled...
November 15, 2013 Ryukyu Shimpo
South Korean carrier Asiana Airlines commenced flights between Naha and Busan on November 14. These...
November 15, 2013 Ryukyu Shimpo
The pre-trade fair for the Okinawa Great Trade Fair, the largest international business convention...
November 8, 2013 Ryukyu Shimpo
The building company Future Planning has started selling a product called “photic curtain.”...
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