2014 International Artists-in-Residence Program in Aso
Applications are open for the 2014 International Artists-in-Residence Program. The purpose of this program is to offer a creative environment for emerging overseas artists in Aso d...
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Regional Towns Continue to Lose Women to Tokyo
On May 8, a subcommittee of the Japan Policy Council, a group of business leaders and scholars, released a population forecast for 2040. The forecast declared that if migration to ...
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Fukuoka Sister City Homestay Program Opportunity
The Fukuoka City International Foundation is running a homestay program that sends senior-high school students, currently living or studying in Fukuoka City, to two of Fukuoka’s si...
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Horse-Drawn Carriage Ride in Fukutsu City
Take a horse-drawn carriage ride in Fukutsu City this May for just ¥500! The carriage service is being run by Fukutsu local market “Anzu-no-satoichi”. Every 15 minute carriage ride...
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Rainy Season Comes Early in Okinawa
The Okinawa Meteorological Observatory announced that this year’s rainy season in Japan started in Okinawa on May 5. This is four days earlier than usual and five days ahead of 201...
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Nishitetsu x Fukuhaku’s Green Tea Potato Chips
Nishitetsu and local snack company Fukuhaku have collaborated to create “Potecha” - potato chips flavored with tea leaves from Hoshinomura, Yame City. The chips are part of a proje...
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Chuo-ku to Get Mobile H2 Filling Station
A mobile hydrogen filling station will be installed in Chuo-ku sometime within the fiscal year in preparation for the fuel cell vehicles (FCVs) slated to go on sale in 2015. Osaka-...
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Kitakyushu Universities Team Up on Self-Driving Car Project
The Kyushu Institute of Technology, the University of Kitakyushu and the Waseda University Graduate School of Information Production and Systems have agreed to open a joint researc...
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El Nino Could Make for a Rainy Summer in Kyushu
On Apr. 25, the Fukuoka District Meteorological Observatory announced that the weather phenomenon known as El Nino could occur for the first time in five years, resulting in torren...
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Three Prefectures Release Genkai Evacuation Estimates
The three prefectural governments of Fukuoka, Saga and Nagasaki released a report detailing evacuation scenarios in the event of a major disaster at the Genkai Nuclear Power Plant ...