August 9, 2013 Ryukyu Shimpo
In the morning of August 8, a charter flight organized by Jumbo Tours in Naha brought 288 people from Bangkok to Naha. That same day, 282 people departed from Okinawa for Thailand. This is the second charter flight between Naha and Bangkok in 2013.
The Thai tourists will stay for five days in Okinawa, during which they will visit Okinawa World in Nanjo and go sightseeing and shopping.
Jumbo Tours is planning to operate four charter flights between...
August 9, 2013 Ryukyu Shimpo
JX Nippon Oil & Energy Corporation plans to build a 12 megawatts solar power plant in Uruma. Involving a total investment of about 3.5 billion yen, it aims to start operating the plant in March 2015. The company is making use of the land in Uruma owned by the...
July 30, 2013 Ryukyu Shimpo
Kin Town announced on July 30 that Hilton Worldwide, an American global hospitality company, will manage a large resort hotel at a site on the former U.S. military Gimbaru Training Area, which the U.S. military returned to Kin Town and other owners in July 2011....
July 25, 2013, Ryukyu Shimpo
The Uruma-Bio Co. based in Uruma and Okinawa World in Nanjo have developed a cosmetics facial mask sheet that uses the extract of the habu (pit viper). The mask sheet is available from July 24 at Okinawa World and in hotels and gift shops in the prefecture....
July 18, 2013 Ryukyu Shimpo
Orion Breweries and Asahi Breweries held a press conference at the Tokyo Chamber of Commerce and Industry Hall in Marunouchi, Chiyoda, Tokyo on July 17. They announced that they will sell their new jointly-developed product “Asahi Orion Okinawa-dayori”...
July 7, 2013 Sadaharu Shimabukuro of Ryukyu Shimpo
Three thousand employees of JFE Engineering have begun wearing kariyushi shirts in the company’s offices from July. Twelve branches nationwide from Hokkaido to Kyushu, including the main office at Yokohama in Kanagawa Prefecture,...
July 19, 2013 Ryukyu Shimpo
Tokyo-based Toyo Keizai magazine announced their annual ranking of the Japan’s most livable cities for 2013. In Okinawa, Tomigusuku came 1st followed by Uruma and Nago. The previous year Nago came 2nd ahead of Uruma.
In the national rankings, Tomigusuku...
July 4, 2013 Ryukyu Shimpo
On July 3, Air China restarted its Naha-Beijing service that had been suspended from October 10, 2012 because of the Senkaku Islands dispute between Japan and China. At 7:00 p.m. that evening 136 people arrived at Naha Airport from Beijing and 59 people went to Beijing...
June 19, 2013 Ryukyu Shimpo
The Sweet Bakery Porsche Co. has won the Honorary President Award in the technical section of the 26th National Confectionery Great Exhibition held in Hiroshima with its Princess Moon Mango & Shikuwasa set.
First released in June 2011, this sweet...
June 14, 2013 Wu Li Jun of Ryukyu Shimpo
China Eastern Airlines has increased its Shanghai – Naha flights from four round-trips a week to one per day. With relations between Japan and China deteriorating over the Senkaku Islands issue, since September 2012 the company had reduced the...
June 8, 2013 Ryukyu Shimpo
On June 7, the Okinawa Prefectural Government (OPG) announced the results of a survey on international tourists’ level of satisfaction with tourism in Okinawa in fiscal 2012. Revenue from tourism increased 36 percent to 22.7 billion yen because in comparison...
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