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Apr 13, 2023 Local News
Nishitetsu Hotel Debuts Near Nanakuma Line Station
The Nishitetsu Hotel Croom Hakata Gion Kushida Shrine-mae opened on April 12th, featuring a location one minute away from the recently extended Kushida Shrine-mae Station on the Fu...
Apr 13, 2023 Local News
Electric Trikes Tested at Kyushu University Campus
Kyushu University and QTnet, a subsidiary of Kyushu Electric Power (Fukuoka City), began a demonstration experiment with electric three-wheeled bikes at the Ito Campus (Fukuoka Cit...
Apr 13, 2023 Local News
Swimming Championship Brings Economic Boost
As preparations for the World Aquatics Championships Fukuoka 2023 continue, the temporary venue is being set up at Marine Messe Fukuoka (Hakata Ward, Fukuoka City). The event, sche...
Apr 13, 2023 Local News
Nishi-Nippon Shimbun Raises Subscription Fees
Nishi-Nippon Shimbun has announced a 500 yen increase in its monthly subscription fees starting in May, due to the soaring cost of raw materials for newspaper production. The compa...
Apr 12, 2023 Local News
Defense Employee Arrested for Groping Teen
A 30-year-old employee of the Kyushu Defense Bureau of the Ministry of Defense was arrested yesterday for touching the body of a high school girl on a train. The suspect is an empl...
Apr 12, 2023 Local News
Sniffing Out Cancer: New Test for Dogs
A venture company that has commercialized a technology to detect cancer by having a creature called "nematode," known for their exceptional sense of smell, sniff human urine will b...
Apr 12, 2023 Local News
Wheelchair Tennis Returns to Iizuka
The "Iizuka International Wheelchair Tennis Tournament," where top wheelchair tennis players compete, is set to be held for the first time in four years. The annual "Iizuka Interna...
Apr 12, 2023 Local News
Fukuoka Braces for Incoming Yellow Sand
In Fukuoka Prefecture, the Meteorological Agency is calling for caution as yellow sand is expected to arrive from the morning of the 12th to the 13th. According to the Fukuoka Dist...
Apr 11, 2023 Local News
Vandals Cut Dozens of Wisteria Vines in Fukuoka’s Maizuru Park
According to Fukuoka City, more than ten branches and vines of wisteria in Maizuru Park were cut off, and the sections appear to have been sawed off flat as if using a saw. However...
Apr 11, 2023 Local News
Trolley Train on Former Coal Tracks Resumes Operation
After a hiatus of four years due to the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic, a trolley train that uses the tracks once used for coal transportation in Akamura resumed operation, attrac...