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Nov 2, 2020 Local News
Tour de Kyushu – Yamaguchi to Start in 2023
A new international bicycle race will be held in the Kyushu-Yamaguchi area from 2023.The Kyushu Regional Strategy Council, which currently discusses the matter, aims to hold the ev...
Oct 27, 2020 Local News
Softbank Hawks Win Pacific League Championship 2020
While our hometown heroes, the Softbank Hawks, won the Nippon Series the last three years in a row (2017, 2018, and 2019), tonight, they were crowned the Pacific Champions for the ...
Sep 30, 2020 Local News
Tokyo 2020 Torch Relay Coming to Fukuoka in May
On Sep. 28, the prefecture rekindled the countdown as the organizing committee announced revised details for the delayed torch relay. The torch would begin its Kyushu journey from ...
Sep 25, 2020 Local News
Softbank Hawks Launch Multilingual Game Highlight Stream
Softbank Hawks plans to stream game highlights of the regular season in English, Chinese (traditional) and Korean. Beginning on September 19, the baseball team will post twenty-two...
Jul 20, 2020 Local News
Fiji-native Joins Fukuoka Rugby Team
Fukuoka-based female rugby team, Nanaimo Prism, welcomes Mateitoga Bogidrau Mainadevi from Fiji. The 36-year old athlete belonged to Saitama Driving School as a rugby player and pl...
Jul 15, 2020 Local News
Kyushu Sumo Basho Relocated to Tokyo for 2020
The Nihon Sumo Kyokai announced the relocation of the all Kyushu Basho matches to Tokyo. While the association announced the resumption of admitting live audiences to Ryogoku Kokug...
Jul 14, 2020 Local News
Kyushu Sangyo University Unveils Large High Tech Sports Arena
Kyushu Sangyo University unveiled its new gymnasium, Okusu Arena 2020, to the media on July 9. The high-tech arena is equipped with thirty ceiling cameras that can provide video an...
Jun 30, 2020 Local News
Rugby World Cup Created 15.4 billion in Economic Benefit for Fukuoka Prefecture
According to a report by Japan Rugby Football Union, the games of Rugby World Cup 2019 created an economic impact of ¥15.4 billion in Fukuoka Prefecture. The benefit totaled ¥48.2 ...
Jun 29, 2020 Local News
Fans to Return to Watch Live Softbank Hawks Baseball
After the Nippon Professional Baseball league decided to allow live audiences in for games on July 10 and later, detailed guidelines for watching games at PayPay Dome were announce...
Jun 19, 2020 Local News
Live Professional Sports Returns To Kyushu
Softbank Hawks announced an updated VR service for fans to enjoy non-audience games. It newly introduces a view from the ‘Coca Cola Seat’ inside the PayPay Dome to give a more real...
