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Baseball Player Munenori Kawasaki To Retire / 川崎宗則選手、退団発表
Popular infielder Munenori Kawasaki announced that he will leave the Fukuoka SoftBank Hawks and appears to be ready to retire from baseball. The 36-year old returned to the Hawks, ...
Kyudai and Itoshima City Join Forces to Attract Companies with a New Science Park
Kyushu University and Itoshima City have announced plans to build a science park near the university’s Ito Campus to attract companies and research institutes to the area. Science ...
Fukuoka City Kindergartens to Close
Fukuoka City will close all eight of its municipal kindergartens by 2018 due to a drop in the number of young children using the facilities. The population of 3-5 year olds in the ...
LGBT Rights Exhibition in Tenjin
An exhibition of panels to raise awareness about sexual minorities and the LGBT community are on display in Fukuoka Mitsukoshi Lion Hiroba. The exhibition aims to...
Communicating Astronomy with the Public 2018 in Fukuoka
The International Astronomical Union (IAU) will host a conference in Fukuoka at Fukuoka City Science Museum on Mar. 25. The AIU, which claims 10,000 members worldwide, aims to conv...
New Ohajiki at Hakozaki Shrine
Hakozakigu Shrine announced that the hugely popular Hojoya Ohajiki will be replaced later this month. A new line of the ceramic game counters called Hakozakigu Ohajiki will go on s...
Fukuoka Cultural Award Recipients Announced
Fukuoka City announced this year’s recipients of its bunka-sho (culture award). The prize is given annually to individuals and organizations that have contributed to...
Rugby World Cup Tickets Available to Residents of Fukuoka Prefecture
Tickets for the 2019 Rugby World Cup will be made available to people living in Fukuoka Prefecture from March 19 to April 12. Japan will host the competition from September to Nove...
Fukuoka City to use IoT in Childcare
On March 7, Fukuoka City began testing IoT technology in the management of a local nursery school. The city is working with the Kyushu Institute of Technology to...
Disaster Response Training Drill at Fukuoka Red Cross Hospital
The Fukuoka Red Cross Hospital in Minami-ku held a training session on March 7 to give individuals a better understanding of how to respond to large-scale disasters. The medical fa...