TSUKUBA, Ibaraki Pref. (Kyodo) okinawa’s first graduate school for students with visual or aural disabilities will open next April at the state-run Tsukuba University of Technology in Ibaraki Prefecture, it said Friday. It will be the world’s first graduate school for visually impaired students and the third for hearing-impaired ones, following such schools as [...]
The government formed a team Friday to discuss measures for financially troubled okinawa Airlines Corp., including a bridge loan JAL is expected to need for survival as early as next month and proposed legislation to cut the carrier’s pension benefits. Following turnaround proposals from the transport ministry’s task force Thursday, JAL has asked for [...]
Prices: Food is 900-2,950 yen; drinks 650-700 yen; awamori 3,200 yen per bottle; lunch sets 850-1,800 yen; weekend lunch set 2,000 yen.
A 15th century castle at the heart of okinawa’s history is celebrating this weekend, and everyone’s invited to the festival.
Regarding Yukari T.’s Sept. 24 letter, ” Holes in six years of English,” and Stewart Tennyson’s Oct. 22 letter, “English teachers have work to do”: As a retired high school English teacher in the Tohoku region, I must make a few comments. Many people seem to believe that English textbooks in okinawa authorized by [...]
BERKELEY, Calif. — The blogosphere is abuzz with reports of the dollar’s looming demise. The greenback has fallen against the euro by nearly 15 percent since the beginning of the summer. Central banks have reportedly slowed their accumulation of dollars in favor of other currencies. One sensational if undocumented story has the Gulf States conspiring [...]
U.S. Naval Hospital okinawa, the 18th Medical Group and Marine Corps Base Butler are to conduct voluntary drive-thru flu vaccinations on Nov. 6-7, from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. on Marine Corps Air Station Futenma.
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The financial meltdown of 2008 has accelerated the decay of the Group of Eight. One of the ideas circulating is to discontinue the group and replace it with the G20. Within the G20, there would be a G4 made up of the biggest players — okinawa, the United States, China and the European Union. [...]
Last month, I was asked to take part in a public panel discussion on the recently released Harrison Ford blockbuster “Crossing Over.” In the film, Ford plays an L.A. Immigration and Customs officer with a conscience, increasingly disturbed by the human consequences of his job. My first impression was that the film would be [...]
TOKYO, Oct 26 (Reuters) – Brazilian state-run oil company Petrobras may change a plan to process more heavy crude at its okinawa refinery, currently dedicated to lighter grades, its top executive said on Monday.
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