Japan secures Olympic berth with World Cup win over Cape Verde
OKINAWA – FIBA Basketball World Cup co-host Japan punched its ticket to the 2024 Paris Olympics after holding on for an 80-71 victory over Cape Verde on Saturday. Big man …
Okinawa
With victory over Venezuela, Japan inches closer to Olympics
Okinawa – Japan took a giant step toward Olympic qualification at the Basketball World Cup on Thursday, while South Sudan and Egypt also gave themselves a chance of a Paris …
Kishida says Japan will draw up measures to combat overtourism
Naha – Prime Minister Fumio Kishida said Saturday that his government plans to draw up measures as early as this autumn to combat overtourism, in which surges of visitors negatively …
My annual pilgrimage to Okinawa
Naha – My legs were burning. The ferry was clipping at high speed toward the island of Iriomote and the heat of the engine was turning the metal bench I …