Local News

A questionnaire survey conducted by Fukuoka City found that about 60% of the 107 food and drink stall operators in the Nakasu district are thinking of quitting in the next 10 years. The city’s policy is that stall operation be limited to one generation and not handed on to children, and the aging of the operators is throwing the continued existence of the stalls into question. Operators aged 50 or older account for 75% of the stall operators, and those aged 70 or older account for 20%. More than half say they don’t know who will succeed to the business, or have a successor in mind. Meanwhile, a survey by the Kyushu Economic Research Center found that, with tourism factored in, the stalls had an economic effect of 5.323 billion yen annually.