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Mar 14, 2022 Event
KITANO Picnic
Kitano Town, Kurume City, is famous as a major producer of leafy vegetables. Many foreign technical intern trainees live in this town, and globalization is progressing...
Mar 4, 2022 Event
Discover Kurume Kasuri Market!
The "Kurume Kasuri Ai, Ai, Deai (Indigo, Love, Encounter) Festival," as the Kasuri event is affectionately known, has been revamped for its 25th anniversary with the theme of "disc...
Feb 4, 2022 Event
Ishibashi Cultural Center Spring Flower Festival
The Ishibashi Cultural Center boasts at least 140 red and white blooming plum trees, including the "spring plum tree" donated by Hefei City, China, a friendship city of Kurume City...
Dec 17, 2021 Local News
Kurume Elementary Students Receive 9,000 Apples From Aomori
Twenty elementary schools in Kurume City received 9,000 apples from Aomori Prefecture. The delicious gifts convey appreciation from JA Tsugaru Mirai after the region got a lot of s...
Nov 8, 2021 Local News
Kurume-based Ice Cream Company To Release Fanta Flavor
Kurume City-based ice cream manufacturer Marunaga Confectionery Co., Ltd. reached an agreement with the Coca-Cola Company in the U.S. to sell the first-ever Fanta-flavor ice popsic...
Oct 13, 2021 Local News
Kurume University Collaborates With Bridgestone To Solve Sleep Debt
Kurume University and Kurume City partnered with Bridgestone Corporation and three other organizations to solve ‘sleep debt’ matters. The government-industry-academia collaboration...
Jun 10, 2021 Local News
First Extreme High Temperature Issued in Northern Kyushu
Outside temperature exceeded 35°C in Kurume City at around 13:30 on June 9, making for the first Extreme High Temperature (‘mousho -bi’) report for 2021 in Japan. Daytime high rose...
May 18, 2021 Local News
Kazakhstan Canceled Pre-Olympic Training in Kurume
The national Olympic committee of Kazakhstan canceled its pre-Olympic training in Kurume City. Reflecting on the current spread of the new coronavirus, Kazakhstan athletes would he...
Apr 26, 2021 Local News
Request for Business Regulations Expanded to Kurume City
Fukuoka Prefecture expands the request for business regulations to Kurume City following a task force meeting on Apr. 22 to discuss...
Mar 21, 2021 Now Reports
Kurume Kasuri Guide 2021
Kurume Kasuri is a traditional textile from the Chikugo region that has been handed down over the generations. It is currently produced in Kurume City, Hirokawa Town (in Yame Distr...