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Oct 1, 2009 Now Reports
Fukuoka City Retrospect
Fukuoka City was established on April 1, 1889, which means it is celebrating its 120th anniversary as a municipality this year. The Fukuoka City Museum is now holding an exhibit th...

Sep 1, 2009 Now Reports
Woon Tien Wei
This month FN showcases one of the young Asian artists whose work will soon be appearing in Fukuoka, in celebration of the 4th Fukuoka Asian Art Triennale. Although he hasn't been ...

Sep 1, 2009 Now Reports
Fukuoka Asian Art Triennale
Opened in 1999, the Fukuoka Asian Art Museum is one of only a few museums in the world to systematically collect and exhibit modern and contemporary Asian art.

Aug 1, 2009 Food & Drinks
Pub Morris
Pub Morris takes its name from two British style icons (inescapable wallpaper designer William Morris, and wood-fixtured mini-van the Morris Mini Minor) and with these as inspirati...

Aug 1, 2009 Now Reports
The Day I Became King
The day I became king, or at least felt like one, is every day; every day my foot crosses the threshold into a Lawson, 7-Eleven, dining, shopping, or customer service environment t...

Aug 1, 2009 Food & Drinks
International Bar
First opened in 1986, Fukuoka's longest-running International Bar is a comfortable, unpretentious place with the same aim as when it opened: to introduce Japanese and international...

Aug 1, 2009 Food & Drinks
The Dark Room
Always a little under the radar, The Dark Room is nonetheless deservedly a fixture on the Oyafuki-dori scene and offers a metropolitan pub feel with high-quality food and a wide an...

Aug 1, 2009 Now Reports
Rahmawati Hidayah (Yaya)
Yaya has a family history in Fukuoka: her father was an architecture ryugakusei for six years and president of Kyushu University Foreign Students Association. Yaya returned to Fuku...

Aug 1, 2009 Now Reports
Fukuoka City’s First Swimming Beaches
All of us enjoy sea bathing with friends and family during Summer vacations. The best beaches for swimming in Fukuoka that come to mind are Nokonoshima, Ikinomatsubara, and Obaru i...

Aug 1, 2009 Food & Drinks
Fire Ball Cafe
Fire Ball combines the ambiance of an American sports bar with a truly international worship of sport - any sport. With seven TVs and a big screen often displaying two or three dif...