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Nov 2, 2021 Local News
Google To Open Office in Fukuoka City
Google LLC plans to open a new office in Fukuoka City. The American technology company reportedly is considering opening an office inside the recently completed Tenjin Business Cen...
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Oct 27, 2021 Local News
Umbrella Sharing Service Switches to Brighter Design
The umbrella sharing service, Aikasa, debuted new umbrellas featuring a design that allows users to enjoy the blue sky painted inside. The environmentally-conscious service rents.....
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Oct 21, 2021 Local News
Fukuoka’s First Public Piano
The first street piano in Fukuoka City was introduced on the 1st floor of Solaria plaza in Tenjin. On the morning of Oct. 20, local jazz pianist Futa Kojo filled the place with bea...
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Oct 15, 2021 Local News
One Kyushu Museum Event at Nishitetsu Grand Hotel
The project is a social trial to invigorate the economy and community by using a hotel as the venue to showcase top-level local ceramics, glassware, textile, and wines from around ...
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Oct 14, 2021 Local News
Kego Park To Be Closed During Halloween
Kego Park will be closed off to the public during the Halloween weekend. According to Fukuoka City’s report, the park attracted some 6,000 visitors during Halloween 2020. Some of t...
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Aug 31, 2021 Local News
IMS Building in Tenjin Closes Permanently Today
Sadly the IMS (Inter Media Station) building in Tenjin will close permanently today. Opened in 1989 as an "information and culture transmission base" and considered a trendsetter f...
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Aug 23, 2021 Local News
New E Sport Complex in Tenjin
Challengers ' Park opened one of the largest e-sport complexes in Western Japan, in Tenjin on Aug. 20. Located on the 8th floor of Tenjin Loft Building, the 610-m2 facility offers ...
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Aug 5, 2021 Local News
Redevelopment Plans Include Saving Over One Hundred Trees
Fukuoka City announced that it would preserve 101 trees on the redevelopment site of Susaki Park. Changing from the original plan that would remove 383 of 400 trees grown on the si...
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Jul 28, 2021 Local News
NEC To Move Over a thousand Employees to Tenjin Business Center
NEC Corporation announced the opening of a new large-scale office inside the soon-to-be-completed Tenjin Business Center. It will relocate all seven of its offices elsewhere in Fuk...
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Jul 7, 2021 Local News
Guinness World Record Attempt Crashes Down in Tenjin
A toy-block stacking event was held in an attempt to break a Guinness World Record. The event was held inside IMS Building in Tenjin on Jul. 3 and 4. The two-day project’s goal was...