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Fukuoka City Mayoral Election Schedule Set For November
The mayoral election for Fukuoka City will be held on November 6, 2022, with voting to be held on November 20, 2022. Mayor Takashima, who was elected for the third time four years ...
LDP Incumbent Satoshi Oie Elected For Third Time
Mr. Oie is 54 years old and a native of Kitakyushu City. After serving as a member of the Fukuoka Prefectural Assembly, he was first elected to the House of Councillors in 2010. He...
Record 16 Candidates from Fukuoka – House of Councillors Election
A record number of 16 candidates are running in the upcoming House of Councillors Election, with three seats up for election. On June 22, the candidates took to the streets and...
Number Of Constituencies In Fukuoka Remains Unchanged, But Borders Adjusted
To correct the so-called "one-vote disparity" in the lower house of the Diet, a government council recommended adjustments to Prime Minister Kishida. In Fukuoka Prefecture, the num...
Fukuoka Loses Bid Host Next Year’s G7 Summit
Prime Minister Kishida announced that Japan would host the G7 Summit in Hiroshima next year. Fukuoka, which had been seeking to host the summit, was not selected. At a press confer...
Fukuoka Prefecture’s 2022 Budget Announced
Fukuoka Prefecture drafted its budget for the fiscal year of 2022. The record largest budget of over ¥2 trillion aims to support different sectors with themes of overcoming the new...
Outline for Fukuoka City’s 2022 Budget Announced
Fukuoka City announced its 2022 budget plan. Their yearly budget of over ¥100 billion includes upwards of 20% for programs to battle the new coronavirus pandemic, such as provision...
Itoshima Mayor Wins Reelection But Tests Positive for COVID
Yuji Tsukigata, reelected for a third term as Mayor of the Itoshima City, has tested positive for the new coronavirus. The Mayor canceled all indoor speeches as the number of COVID...
Mayor Takashima Appointed To Japan’s Digitalization Research Committee
Fukuoka City Mayor, Soichiro Takashima, became the only local-government leader to join Japan’s provisional commission for digital transformation. The recently established commissi...
Lower Than Average Percentage of Female Assembly Members in Kyushu
The percentage of female local assembly members in the Kyushu-Okinawa region remains lower than the national average. According to a report by the Ministry of Internal Affairs and ...