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Students No Longer Need to Specify Gender for Entrance Exams
From March next year, the prefectural high school entrance examinations in Fukuoka will not ask students to specify their gender on application forms or admission slips. The Fukuok...
Mizutaki Flavored Potato Chips
Calbee have joined forces with Fukuoka Prefecture to develop mizutaki (chicken hot pot) flavored potato chips. These efforts form part of a wider initiative that sees the company c...
Softbank Hawks Soar Past Seibu Lions to Advance to Japan Series
Yesterday, Sunday Oct. 21 the Softbank Hawks defeated the Seibu Lions for the fourth time in five games to win the Climax Series and advance to the Japan Series against the Hiroshi...
New Cashless Payment System in Kyushu
On October 4, an association of 17 companies in Kyushu launched a new campaign to encourage the use of cashless forms of payment in the region. The Kyushu Cashless Tourism Island P...
Overseas Travel Agents Visit Kitakyushu City
Representatives from Asian travel companies were recently invited to Kitakyushu City in an attempt to increase the number of school excursions and training trips visiting the area ...
Hawks Minced Ham to Advance To Final Stage
Alfredo Despaigne smashed back-to-back homers, first in the fourth inning then in the bottom of the sixth against right-handed Michael Tonkin, as the SoftBank Hawks clobbered the N...
Large Scale Redevelopment in Tenjin
A large scale redevelopment is scheduled to take place in the blocks surrounding Fukuoka Parco and the Shintencho shopping arcade. The construction work will take place over approx...
Fukuoka City Looking to Increase Worker’s Rights for LGBT Community
Fukuoka City is looking into the possibility of offering wedding vacation days and nursing leaves to LGBT (lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender) employees who have entered into ...
Fukuoka Second in Ranking of Japanese Cities
The Mori Memorial Foundation's Institute for Urban Strategies released findings from a study into the most appealing cities in Japan outside of Tokyo. The research took a range of ...
Kyushu University Aims to Use Renewable Energy to Produce Hydrogen
Kyushu University has started conducting research into the usage of renewable energy to produce hydrogen and the development of hydrogen storage materials made from hydrogen alloys...