Japan's Junglia Okinawa theme park gets opening date

Junglia Okinawa, a new nature-inspired theme park in Okinawa, Japan has set its opening date for 25 July. Covering an area of around 60 hectares, the new park is being built on the site of a former golf course stretching from the village of Nakijin to the city of Nago. It is developed by Katana, a marketing and entertainment firm working in the Japanese theme park industry. Katana CEO Tsuyoshi Morioka is known for reversing declining attendance at Universal Studios Japan in 2010. Not long after joining the park, he started working on plans to introduce a Wizarding World of Harry Potter land. “We’ve