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Jul 2, 2012 Now Reports
Tours of Yamakasa Floats on July 8
We Love Tenjin Association is organizing a walking tour of the floats used in the Yamakasa festival. The tour starts at 13:00 on July 8 at Lion Square in front of the Mitsukoshi De...
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Jun 28, 2012 Now Reports
July 2012 Fukuoka Now Magazine
This summer in Fukuoka is going to be HOT! This issue, we get ready for the summer's biggest festivals– Red Bull Sound Voyage, Sunset Live and Isla de Salsa –whilst cover model Tam...
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Jun 28, 2012 Now Reports
The Nagare Community
The history of one of Hakata’s best known festivals, the Hakata Gion Yamakasa held in July, dates back more than 700 years. It is a compelling sight to watch loincloth-clad men run...
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Jun 27, 2012 Now Reports
TRIAL to Hire International Students
Discount Store TRIAL has announced it will hire 200 staff next spring, double its hires this year. Of this, about 20 will be international students. They are planning to move into ...
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Jun 27, 2012 Now Reports
Gaikokupedia
If there’s anything I don’t know about Japanese history, architecture, culture or politics, I find the longest answers often come by asking a random gaikokujin a completely unrelat...
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Jun 25, 2012 Now Reports
Micaela Braithwaite
Micaela first started making YouTube videos to assure her concerned parents of their teenage daughter’s safety in Japan. “I was living in Kumamoto and I was 18 years old. The inten...
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Jun 21, 2012 Now Reports
Canada Day Hats and Leis!
A huge box of decorations for the Fukuoka Canada Day Party arrived at the Fukuoka Now office today and we wasted no time in trying the goods on! We got Canadian flag paper plates, ...
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Jun 19, 2012 Now Reports
Fukuoka City Ranked 12th Best City in the world!
Fukuoka City Ranked 12th Best City in the world! 福岡市「世界BESTシティ12位」にランクイン! Wow-wow-wow! …the world is finally getting it. Fukuoka ranked yet even higher this year’s prestigiou...
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Jun 19, 2012 Now Reports
First Rock Climbing Facility in Tenjin
Bravo Climbing have opened an indoor rock climbing facility in Tenjin. With up to nine levels of difficulty on the walls there is a climb for everyone. The joining fee is ¥1,575 an...
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Jun 19, 2012 Now Reports
Goats to Ward Off Wild Boar in Nagasaki
As many as 50 towns in Nagasaki will start to use goats to ward off wild boar which destroy valuable farm crops. In 2010 in Nagasaki alone, there was ¥400 million damage recorded. ...