October 3, 2012 Ryukyu Shimpo
As part of an ongoing business model project, the Naha Port Authority will start a pilot program to export used cars to Africa. The project has been carried out previously with Taiwan in order to establish a logistics business model.
On October 2, 2012 the council held its first meeting of the year in the passenger area of Naha Wharf.
The Naha Port Authority already exports less-than-container load cargos to Hong Kong and Taiwan. In fiscal...
October 4, 2012 Ryukyu Shimpo
In the morning of October 4, 245 people arrived at Naha Airport from Bangkok on a charter flight operated by Thai Airways International, the largest airline in Thailand. The Okinawa Convention & Visitors Bureau held a welcome ceremony for them in the international...
September 26, 2012 Ryukyu Shimpo
On September 25, Nissin Holdings Co., Ltd. officially launched a renewable-energy project using feed-in tariffs. The company has been working on projects to sell solar generated electricity by leasing the roofs of residential housings, and will sell all of the...
September 19, 2012 Ryukyu Shimpo
In October 2013, film production company Sugar Train, Inc., will open a permanent theater for plays composed of Okinawan performing arts such as Ryukyuan dance, eisa, and karate. The Okinawan Nonverbal Entertainment Performance “Tee! Tee! Tee! Project”...
September 21 Ryukyu Shimpo
On September 20, the Okigin Economic Institute estimated that the 28th All Japan Triathlon Miyakojima pumped about 330 million yen into the Okinawan economy, which increased in activity by 1.7 % over the previous year. The main effects on the economy were in the service,...
September 20, 2012 Ryukyu Shimpo
Increasing numbers of Chinese, who planned travel to Okinawa, and Okinawans who had booked travel to China, have canceled trips due to protests in China against the Japanese government’s purchase of three of the disputed Senkaku Islands. Chinese organizations...
September 15, 2012 Ryukyu Shimpo
On September 14, at the Okinawa Prefectural Museum & Art Museum the International Content Business Symposium, “Globalizing Okinawan cultural content – Learning from Canada-Quebec how to promote local culture” was held to consider how to use Okinawan...
September 8, 2012 Wu Li Jun Ryukyu Shimpo
From 2003 to the end of August 2012, the Okinawa Film Office supported the filming of a total of 822 projects. This includes subsidizing the cost of the production of the Japanese-Canadian movie Karakara, which won the Public Award for the most popular...
September 18, 2012 Ryukyu Shimpo
Fourteen Okinawan companies and organizations took part in the 16th China International Fair for Investment and Trade held in Xiamen, Fujian, from September 8 to 11. According to the Okinawa Industrial Promotion Public Corporation, the deals organized by the...
September 15, 2012 Ryukyu Shimpo
On September 14, the Okinawa Prefectural Government (OPG) Department of Culture, Tourism and Sports announced that the number of tourists who visited Okinawa this August was 607200 people. This represents a 2.4 percent increase over the same month last year,...
August 23, 2012 Ryukyu Shimpo
On August 22, the Jalan Research Center, which is affiliated to the travel division of Recruit, a major company in Tokyo, released the results of Jalan Travel Research 2012. It provides a ranking for prefectures in eight categories, including the new category of...
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