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Apr 19, 2023 Local News
Coast Guard Aircraft Emergency Landing: Instructor, Trainee Injured in Oita
On the morning of the 18th, a small Japan Coast Guard aircraft departing from Kitakyushu Airport for a training flight made an emergency landing in a field in Usa City, Oita Prefec...
Apr 19, 2023 Local News
Fukuoka Airport Busts Gold Smuggling Attempt
A South Korean man, aged 28, was taken into custody for purportedly attempting to transport around 2 kilograms of gold by concealing it around his abdomen.The individual arrested o...
Apr 18, 2023 Local News
Elderly Rampage: 90-Year-Old Batters Woman with Cane in Kitakyushu
In a horrifying twist of events, a 90-year-old man was arrested in Kitakyushu City after brutally assaulting an 88-year-old woman with his cane! This shocking incident took place i...
Apr 18, 2023 Local News
Wisteria Vigilante Comes Clean, Apologizes
Well, folks, we have an update on the wisteria cutting incident at Maizuru Park in Fukuoka City. A man, apparently trying to be some sort of hero...
Apr 14, 2023 Local News
Sun’s Egg Mangoes Fetch Record-Breaking ¥600,000
The first auction of the season for the "Egg of the Sun," a premium brand of mangoes from Miyazaki Prefecture, took place on April 13th, setting a record high price of ¥600,000 for...
Apr 13, 2023 Local News
Electric Trikes Tested at Kyushu University Campus
Kyushu University and QTnet, a subsidiary of Kyushu Electric Power (Fukuoka City), began a demonstration experiment with electric three-wheeled bikes at the Ito Campus (Fukuoka Cit...
Apr 12, 2023 Local News
Defense Employee Arrested for Groping Teen
A 30-year-old employee of the Kyushu Defense Bureau of the Ministry of Defense was arrested yesterday for touching the body of a high school girl on a train. The suspect is an empl...
Apr 11, 2023 Local News
Vandals Cut Dozens of Wisteria Vines in Fukuoka’s Maizuru Park
According to Fukuoka City, more than ten branches and vines of wisteria in Maizuru Park were cut off, and the sections appear to have been sawed off flat as if using a saw. However...
Apr 11, 2023 Local News
Trolley Train on Former Coal Tracks Resumes Operation
After a hiatus of four years due to the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic, a trolley train that uses the tracks once used for coal transportation in Akamura resumed operation, attrac...
Apr 7, 2023 Local News
Mysterious Dismembered Body Remains Unidentified in Fukuoka
A chilling discovery of a dismembered body part at the former site of Kyushu University in Fukuoka City has left investigators puzzled for over a year. Despite interviewing around ...