Okinawa News and Entertainment http://www.japanupdate.com Thu, 02 Sep 2010 00:39:12 +0100 FeedCreator 1.7.2 http://www.japanupdate.com/i/logo.gif http://www.japanupdate.com Feed provided by JapanUpdate.com. Click to visit. http://www.japanupdate.com/?id=10594 A sightseeing company on Ishigaki Island, “Ishigaki Kankou”, has been designated the “Visit Japan Information Center” by the Japanese Government. The “Visit Japan Information Center” was the brainchild of the government, to take care of foreign visitors at an office in Ishigaki Airport. webmaster@japanupdate.com Thu, 02 Sep 2010 00:39:12 +0100 http://www.japanupdate.com/?id=10576 Okinawa’s a sub-tropical paradise that’s beautiful from any angle, but now an Okinawa-based aviation company is showing that beauty from a new perspective: from above. ILAS is taking its customers into the air on Ryukyu Skywalk tours on one of their two helicopters, a Eurocopter AS350B2 and the new Eurocopter AS355F2. webmaster@japanupdate.com Thu, 02 Sep 2010 00:39:12 +0100 http://www.japanupdate.com/?id=10589 Midway through the Japanese fiscal year, Autobacs Chatan is taking advantage of the advantage of the time to offer customers at its Chatan branch special clearance bargains as it clears the shelves to make way for new merchandise. Autobacs is tallying up bargains galore for its two-day clearance sale taking place Sep. webmaster@japanupdate.com Thu, 02 Sep 2010 00:39:12 +0100 http://www.japanupdate.com/?id=10588 Orion Beer is Okinawa’s home-grown beverage, and this weekend’s Orion Beer Festival in Okinawa City’s Koza Athletic Park is a chance for the company to tout its product while offering top notch entertainment to the community. A dozen name bands will perform during the two-day festival, which kicks off both Saturday and Sunday at 4 p. webmaster@japanupdate.com Thu, 02 Sep 2010 00:39:12 +0100 http://www.japanupdate.com/?id=10581 On base and in Okinawa City, festival season continues this weekend. Down Highway 58, at Camp Kinser, it’s the annual Friendship Festival kicking off a two-day run on Saturday. webmaster@japanupdate.com Thu, 02 Sep 2010 00:39:12 +0100 http://www.japanupdate.com/?id=10582 There are plenty of shops and restaurants across Okinawa that loudly tout their omutaco, or taco rice omelet, but only one –Kijimunaa originally from Onna Village—can lay claim to being the original. Kijimunaa opened its doors in 2003, and has become the focal point of the simple dish created by placing egg atop a simple taco rice dish. webmaster@japanupdate.com Thu, 02 Sep 2010 00:39:12 +0100 http://www.japanupdate.com/?id=10584 Ryuta Kinjo’s putting the finishing touches on his 24 water-based paintings as he prepares for a three-day exhibition, 200 Years of Light and Shadow Living Together in Nature, at the Urasoe Art Museum. Artist Kinjo’s watercolor paintings each tell a story, and each of the 24 paintings are sequential, showing first sunset scene before working through the darkness and to sunrise, the final painting. webmaster@japanupdate.com Thu, 02 Sep 2010 00:39:12 +0100 http://www.japanupdate.com/?id=10596 Yoshimi Imai understands how being in touch with nature is essential for relaxation and restoring the body to a healthy balance, and with her new salon she’s putting those principles into practice. Healing Hand Supliss is designed to combat stress and fatigue that throws the body off balance, and Imai has created a relaxing, comfortable atmosphere filled with greenery and aromatic scents to put the customer at ease. webmaster@japanupdate.com Thu, 02 Sep 2010 00:39:12 +0100 http://www.japanupdate.com/?id=10595 Evita Okinawa Thai Massage is preparing to celebrate its 9th anniversary, and is proud of having served thousands of customers with the best Thai soft tissue and deep tissue massages. Ayako Bastidas first learned the art of Thai massage in Chiang Rai, Thailand, and then added skills in aroma massage in London, and finally reflexology in Tokyo, first as a hobby, and then taking on the massage challenge as a side-line business. webmaster@japanupdate.com Thu, 02 Sep 2010 00:39:12 +0100 http://www.japanupdate.com/?id=10585 Hamid Ebrahami is a chiropractor--a physician specializing in the human body’s muscular, nervous and skeletal systems, with emphasis on the spine—who’s taken Okinawan health care up a notch as he’s helped hundreds of patients find pain-free lives. An Okinawa resident since 2003, he’s operated Hamid Care Center in Chatan, using x-rays as the starting point to identify individuals’ pains often caused by interference in body systems caused by muscles and vertebrae out of alignment. webmaster@japanupdate.com Thu, 02 Sep 2010 00:39:12 +0100 http://www.japanupdate.com/?id=10593 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. webmaster@japanupdate.com Thu, 02 Sep 2010 00:39:12 +0100 http://www.japanupdate.com/?id=10592 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. webmaster@japanupdate.com Thu, 02 Sep 2010 00:39:12 +0100 http://www.japanupdate.com/?id=10591 If the Naha District Prosecutor has his way, U.S. webmaster@japanupdate.com Thu, 02 Sep 2010 00:39:12 +0100 http://www.japanupdate.com/?id=10590 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. webmaster@japanupdate.com Thu, 02 Sep 2010 00:39:12 +0100 http://www.japanupdate.com/?id=10583 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. webmaster@japanupdate.com Thu, 02 Sep 2010 00:39:12 +0100 http://www.japanupdate.com/?id=10579 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. webmaster@japanupdate.com Thu, 02 Sep 2010 00:39:12 +0100 http://www.japanupdate.com/?id=10578 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. webmaster@japanupdate.com Thu, 02 Sep 2010 00:39:12 +0100 http://www.japanupdate.com/?id=10577 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. webmaster@japanupdate.com Thu, 02 Sep 2010 00:39:12 +0100