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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...
Aug 1, 2009 Food & Drinks
The Craic & Porter Beer Bar
Popular with foreign visa-runners visiting from all over Asia looking for a taste of home, Craic & Porter might be packed out with old-hands one night and fresh faces the next.
Aug 1, 2009 Food & Drinks
Fubar
A fixture of the Oyafuko-dori scene, Fubar's infamous nomihodai is a favorite of JETs and young groups of internationals, and the bar is run by experienced crowd-pleasers with a re...
Jul 5, 2009 Gallery
Fireworks After-Party 2009
This year even more people (347) turned out to FN's annual Summer Party at La Boheme Qualita. And many wearing colorful yukata and jinbei. From the roof-top patio we could see the ...
Jul 2, 2009 Gallery
Canada Day Party 2009
Flags were flying at Fukuoka Now’s annual Canada Day party. The Dark Room was decked out in multitudes of maple leaves and served up tasty Canadian specialities like grilled salmon...
Jul 1, 2009 Now Reports
Mame Fara Diouf
Fara first came to Japan in 1999 on tour with Mama Africa, a drumming troupe from his native Senegal, and has been based in Japan since 2002, finally settling in Fukuoka three mont...
Jul 1, 2009 Now Reports
The Yamakasa Happi
It’s no wonder that everyone who sees the Hakata Gion Yamakasa festival thinks it’s terrific. Older men clad in business suits who seem so tired of life, and young people too, seem...
Jul 1, 2009 Now Reports
I’d like to teach the world to surf
"Nihon de no mokuteki wa nan desu ka?"... I confess to being lost for words recently when a Japanese colleague asked me this deceptively simple question. Did he mean professionally...
Jun 1, 2009 Now Reports
New Multicultural Milestone – Fukuoka Masjid
This month Fukuoka Now reports on a significant landmark of internationalization in Fukuoka: the opening of Kyushu's first mosque, Fukuoka Masjid and Al-Nour Islamic Cultural Cente...
