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[2010-09-02] It was a long weekend for the number one ranked Ladies Professional Golf Association player, Okinawa’s Ai Miyazato, who couldn’t find the range in the CN Canadian Women’s Open.
Michelle Wie tallied a final round 2-under-par 70 Sunday to win the event, her second on the LPGA tour, earning a $337,500 prize in the $2. Read More! [2010-09-02] If the Naha District Prosecutor has his way, U.S. Read More! [2010-09-02] Typhoon Kompasu roared across central Okinawa Tuesday afternoon and evening, packing wind gusts of up to 134 miles per hour as it continued its Pacific travels en route to a Thursday collision with North and South Korea.
It was the first typhoon to strike Okinawa since July 2007, when Man-Yi unleashed its devastation in the region. Read More! [2010-09-02] It took only minutes for Okinawa mayors angry at the prospects of a replacement airfield for Futenma Marine Corps Air Station being built in northern Okinawa to begin venting their displeasure over a report released by the Japanese and U.S. Read More! [2010-09-02] Ichiro Ozawa says he’ll challenge Prime Minister Naoto Kan for leadership of the Democratic Party of Japan, a move that could alter the balance of power in Japan once more.
Traditionally, the head of the party in power—in this case the Democratic Party of Japan—becomes the country’s Prime Minister at the same time he takes the reins as party president. Read More! [2010-09-02] A mainland Japanese tourist who stole another tourist’s handbag at Azama Sun-Sun Beach tells police he did it because “I was so interested in the girl’s personal goods.”
The 28-year-old Yusuke Kawahara didn’t fit the ordinary mold of a thief, police say of the incident at Nanjo City’s Chinen area. Read More! [2010-09-01] More than 140 flights in and out of Naha Airport have been cancelled Tuesday afternoon as Typhoon Kompasu churns toward the prefecture from the southeast.
Typhoon Kompasu is expected to cross over Okinawa about 7~8 p. Read More! [2010-09-01] It’s been more than six decades since the thermometers registered so hot in Japan, with the Japan Meteorological Agency reporting the hottest temperatures on record since the end of World War II.
A preliminary report released one day before August ended shows only Okinawa and Amami managed to escape the sweltering temperatures that plagued the nation. Read More! [2010-08-26] More than 4,500 Okinawans pressed into the Naha International Airport terminal Sunday evening to welcome home the Konan High School baseball squad that made history a day earlier, becoming the first Okinawa high school to win the summer National High School Baseball Championship.
“Our team and the people of Okinawa were looking forward to this day,” says Masaru Gakiya, the Konan manager, as he spoke of winning the title in front of 47,000 fans at Koshien Stadium in Hyogo Prefecture. Read More! [2010-08-26] Ginowan City’s fiery anti-American bases mayor is telling supporters he will challenge Hirokazu Nakaima in November’s Okinawa gubernatorial election.
The 58-year-old Yoichi Iha has long been a leading opponent of American bases being in Okinawa, and has often called for the Marine Corps’ Futenma Marine Corps Air Station in his city to be closed and the troops and aircraft moved off Okinawa. Read More!
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