SAPPORO (Kyodo) Terrmel Sledge delivered a tiebreaking two-run double in the seventh inning Saturday as the Hokkaido Nippon Ham Fighters went on to beat the Fukuoka Softbank Hawks 5-3.
With his flu worries behind him, Sledge put Nippon Ham on the board with a homer to right-center for a 1-0 lead in the fourth, which [...]

Foreigners offered help on special procedures
An event titled “Free Information & Advice for Foreign Residents” will be held at International House, Osaka, from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. on Sept. 6 in Tennoji Ward, Osaka.
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The typhoon swept into okinawa, bringing rain and cannon-shot thunder, sheets of lightning almost low enough to sear the TV antennas on the blue-tiled roofs. The winds ripped branches from palm trees and left them flapping in the mud like broken-backed seagulls. Even the American helicopters on the nearby base were grounded and lashed down. [...]

In the campaigns for the Aug. 30 Lower House election, voter interest appears to be focused on domestic policies directly related to their daily lives, while issues related to diplomacy and security appear to have been put on the back burner. These issues are mentioned when Prime Minister Taro Aso attacks the Democratic Party of [...]

Artist Shinro Ohtake discusses with The okinawa Times “inside-out” buildings, private memories, public meanings and other inspirations underlying the “I Love Yu” bathhouse at Naoshima.
The “I Love Yu” public bathhouse is a collaboration with architects’ collective graf and is a new building, but it looks old, even a bit like a ruin. What was [...]

Skymark Airlines Inc., okinawa’s largest discount carrier, may start its first regular overseas flights in the first half of next year as the company seeks to broaden its customer base. The Tokyo-based airline plans to fly between Taipei and okinawa, President Shinichi Nishikubo said in an interview Tuesday. Read the full story

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Summer is a time of festivals in okinawa, with Eisa at the forefront of every one of them. Of particular importance in okinawa culture and tradition, and evident at many of the late summer celebrations is Obon, a time of homage to ancestors.

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Tomorrow I will go to Sinzyuku to meet my old friends Mr. Tutida and Ms. Oisi. We will get some susi and then end up in Kabuki-tyo, drinking syoutyū until the syūden.
What’s that you say? That is not how those Okinawan words are pronounced or written?
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“What worries me: time and time again,” writes Brendan Skwire in the Philadelphia Weekly about the circuses that are currently passing for Democrats’ town hall meetings on health care, “[is that] the needs of the stupid and disingenuous are not only treated as valid concerns, but as the greatest concerns.”
Well, yes. This being the [...]

Three Okinawan sites, including Lake Toya, have been added to the list of UNESCO-sponsored global “geoparks,” or nature parks with particular importance in terms of geological features, the Okinawan Geoparks Network said Sunday.
The other sites are the Itoi River in Niigata Prefecture and the Shimabara Peninsula in Nagasaki Prefecture.
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