Stone Foxes Return to Kego Shrine
Four stone foxes have made their return to Kego Shrine in Tenjin. The foxes were smashed this April. Sasaguri Town-based stone sculptor Harumine Kunihiro repaired one of the...
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City Moves to Protect Historic Scenery
On Aug. 31, Fukuoka City held a meeting of its Urban Landscape Review Board which decided to strengthen efforts to protect historic scenery in the city. Under the current Urban Lan...
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Tenjin to Get Pedestrian Scramble on Watanabe-dori
The intersection in the middle of Tenjin where Watanabe-dori Ave. meets the small street that runs past the Central Police Station will soon become a scramble intersection. Diagona...
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Sakurajima Calms Down, but Eruption Threat Remains
The volcano alert level for Sakurajima (Kagoshima City) was recently raised to 4, which entails evacuation preparations for the first time, but by Aug. 17, the number of volcanical...
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City Hall Bungles Bike Lot Pass Pricing
It has come to light that the monthly passes for the bicycle parking under Kego Park are actually ¥400 more expensive than if you pay as you go. It turns out City Hall failed to ad...
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Furusato-Kan Turns 20, Will Hold Festival
Hakata Machiya Furusato-ka, the hands-on local history and culture museum in the heart of the city, turns 20 on Aug. 10. On Aug. 9 at 16:00, a commemorative Summer Festival will be...
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Okinoshima to Be Recommended for UNESCO World Heritage Listing
On July 28, the Council for Cultural Affairs announced its intention to recommend the island of Okinoshima (and related sites in Munakata City) for the 2017 UNESCO World Cultural H...
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KITTE Department Store to Open in Hakata
Proving that Fukuoka is as hungry as ever for more and increasingly novel ways and places to shop, KITTE Hakata is storming into Hakata in Spring 2016. The clue to what make this d...
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Kyutech and NTU (Singapore) Team Up on Tiny Satellite Project
The Kitakyushu-based Kyushu Institute of Technology (Kyutech) has jointly developed a nano-satellite with Singapore’s Nanyang Technological University (NTU). Dubbed AOBA-VELOX III,...
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Fukuoka Prefectural Office Seizes Orchard to Complete Expressway
Acting as a proxy for the national government, officials from the Fukuoka Prefectural Office exercised eminent domain to secure part of a mikan orchard in the path of the Higashi-K...
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