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Update: Monkey Apprehended Inside Fukuoka City Hall
A monkey was on the loose in Tenjin for the third day as of the morning of Dec. 5, despite attempts by local police officers and firefighters to continue to capture the monkey held...
Monkey Leads Police On Chase Inside Fukuoka City Hall
On Dec. 3, a monkey was found running around Chuo Ward, Fukuoka City. The first report to the police was made by a resident who witnessed it running through Suzaki Park. The monkey...
Fukuoka City Distributed Over 100,000 Tablets To Students
Fukuoka City began its new IT-based education program, ‘GIGA School,’ as of December 1. The board of education distributed approximately 127,000 tablets to pupils and students who ...
Fukuoka City Subway Discontinues Special Late Night Trains
Fukuoka City Subway discontinued the operation of the ‘Friday Night Train’ for December, 2020. Since 2013, they operated late-night trains on Fridays in the month of December...
IMS Hall Available For Free
The IMS building in Tenjin, which will close in August 2021, offers free use of its event hall to non-commercial art activities for the next nine months. The 1989-opened commercial...
New Hotel Opens On Island City
The 358, a new hotel on Island City (Higashi Ward) in Fukuoka City, opened on Nov. 25. The hotel is divided into two facilities: the family-oriented ‘Sora’ with 159 guest rooms and...
Fukuoka City Tops National Ranking For Most Desirable City to Live In
Fukuoka City topped the latest national ranking for “most desirable cities to live in.” 1,123 or (7.2% of total votes) rated Fukuoka number one for criteria such as the city’s acce...
Fukuoka Softbank Hawks – Japan Series Champions Again!
Tonight our hometown heroes, the Fukuoka Softbank Hawks, defeated the Tokyo Giants by a score of 4 to 1 to sweep the Nippon Series in four consecutive games. In fact, they swept th...
New Live Music Venue Opened in Daimyo
Tokyo-based music label LD&K Inc. opened its first live house & bar in Fukuoka on Nov. 18. The open format of the cafe & bar ‘Tengoku’ (heaven) welcomes guests into its dining spac...
H. Gen Kozuru Family Exhibition 2020 – The Wind from Topsfield
A Boston-base ceramic artist, Hajime Gen Kozuru, was born into a Agano-yaki artist family in Fukuoka. Well over one-hundred pieces created by him and his three children will be on ...