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Nov 27, 2014 Local News
Fukuoka City To Increase School Lunch Prices
The Fukuoka City Board of Education has agreed on a plan to raise the price of school lunches at public elementary and junior high schools next fiscal year. Set to be the first pri...
Nov 26, 2014 Local News
Itoshima Dubs Exchange Students Tourism Ambassadors
Itoshima City has appointed 19 foreign exchange students studying at Kyushu University as Itoshima International Tourism Ambassadors. Timed to coincide with the opening of a new st...
Nov 26, 2014 Local News
Kumamoto Man is World’s No.1 Santa
Kohei Yamashita, a seafood processing worker from Amakusa, Kumamoto, was named the Santa of the Year 2014 at the annual Santa Winter Games held in Gällivare, Sweden on Nov. 22. Thi...
Nov 13, 2014 Local News
Dangerous Redback Spiders Found inside Kyushu University
On Nov.11, Fukuoka City and Kyushu University found 106 redback spiders and 197 eggs on the grounds of Ito Campus in Nishi-ku. They were promptly exterminated. According to Kyushu...
Nov 10, 2014 Local News
Kirameki-Dori To Go Car-Free
On Nov. 6 Fukuoka City announced it will turn Kirameki-dori Ave. into a pedestrian zone Nov. 22~24 for a National Strategic Zone kick-off event. The event, which will feature bands...
Nov 10, 2014 Local News
Kyushu-Made Satellite Successfully Launched
On Nov. 6, the QSAT-EOS satellite, an Earth-observing microsatellite developed by a Kyushu University-led consortium, was launched into space on a Russian rocket and successfully e...
Nov 5, 2014 Local News
Fukuoka Is Full Of Single Women
Despite Fukuoka’s ability to attract young people from around Kyushu, statistics show that 34.5% remain unmarried (as of 2010). This figure is higher than the national average of 2...
Oct 17, 2014 Local News
Foreign Residents And Visitors – Business Chance For Fukuoka?
This Saturday TVQ airs a special 30-minute report on the growing business potential for shops and companies willing to cater to foreign residents and visitors from overseas. Fukuok...
Oct 17, 2014 Local News
Butterfly from Kyoto Spotted in Dazaifu
A chestnut tiger butterfly photographed in Dazaifu has been confirmed as one that was released over 500km away in Kyoto on Sep. 18. On Oct. 11, an amateur photographer from Fukuoka...
Oct 17, 2014 Local News
Only Half The Average Pollen Rate for Kyushu’s Next Spring
Japan Weather Association predicts that the airborne pollen level (Japanese cedar, hinoki cypress) of August 2015 in Kyushu will only be 50% of the average value (2005~2014). This ...