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May 16, 2014 Local News
Search for Missing Cat in Fukuoka Subway Continues
The search for a pet cat who went missing in the city subway tunnels continues. At around 21:00 on May 4, Akihiro Yamane, a 19-year student at Fukuoka University, was waiting on th...
May 12, 2014 Local News
Gifted 10 Year Old Fukuoka Artist – Mondo Okumura
Mondo Okumura (AKA Mondo-kun) an elementary school fifth grader in Chuo-ku, Fukuoka City, is under the spotlight for his unique drawings of the world’s star musicians. “It is relen...
May 9, 2014 Local News
2014 International Artists-in-Residence Program in Aso
Applications are open for the 2014 International Artists-in-Residence Program. The purpose of this program is to offer a creative environment for emerging overseas artists in Aso d...
May 9, 2014 Local News
Regional Towns Continue to Lose Women to Tokyo
On May 8, a subcommittee of the Japan Policy Council, a group of business leaders and scholars, released a population forecast for 2040. The forecast declared that if migration to ...
May 9, 2014 Local News
Fukuoka Sister City Homestay Program Opportunity
The Fukuoka City International Foundation is running a homestay program that sends senior-high school students, currently living or studying in Fukuoka City, to two of Fukuoka’s si...
May 8, 2014 Local News
Horse-Drawn Carriage Ride in Fukutsu City
Take a horse-drawn carriage ride in Fukutsu City this May for just ¥500! The carriage service is being run by Fukutsu local market “Anzu-no-satoichi”. Every 15 minute carriage ride...
May 8, 2014 Local News
Rainy Season Comes Early in Okinawa
The Okinawa Meteorological Observatory announced that this year’s rainy season in Japan started in Okinawa on May 5. This is four days earlier than usual and five days ahead of 201...
May 2, 2014 Local News
Nishitetsu x Fukuhaku’s Green Tea Potato Chips
Nishitetsu and local snack company Fukuhaku have collaborated to create “Potecha” - potato chips flavored with tea leaves from Hoshinomura, Yame City. The chips are part of a proje...
May 2, 2014 Local News
Chuo-ku to Get Mobile H2 Filling Station
A mobile hydrogen filling station will be installed in Chuo-ku sometime within the fiscal year in preparation for the fuel cell vehicles (FCVs) slated to go on sale in 2015. Osaka-...
May 2, 2014 Local News
Kitakyushu Universities Team Up on Self-Driving Car Project
The Kyushu Institute of Technology, the University of Kitakyushu and the Waseda University Graduate School of Information Production and Systems have agreed to open a joint researc...