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Peraboat Monitor Tour

Are you interested in visiting Fukuoka City’s only legalized gambling sports facility? Here’s a chance to learn something new and help Fukuoka Now prepare a web report.

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France Restaurant Week 2014

Returning after last year’s huge success “Diners Club France Restaurant Week” kicks off for 16 days between September 5 and October 16 at 544 French restaurants around Japan ...

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POWER FES 2014 Photo Report

Yesterday’s Umi no Hi (Marine Day 7/21) public holiday was celebrated in a huge way on Jigyohama Beach (next to Momochi Beach) with POWER FES 2014. As billed, it turned out to be W...

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Fukuoka Food Event and Media Tour

Fukuoka City is slowly but surely making a name for itself as culinary city. Many factors contribute to this including it’s location on the bountiful Sea of Japan, its temperate cl...

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Nanakusa no Sekku – Report

Today, the 7th of January is Nanakusa no Hi. Nanakusa refers to seven herbs or seven grasses that are eaten together on this day as okayu (rice porridge) for good health for the re...

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“HAFU” Special Screening in Fukuoka – Report

On Dec. 15, Fukuoka Now hosted Kyushu’s premiere screening of documentary film, “Hafu – the mixed-race experience in Japan” at KBC Cinema to a sold out audience of 150. The sc...

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Hakata Tomyo Watching 2013 Report

Report and photos by Sarah Burne James for Fukuoka Now. With a few locations scribbled onto our crumpled map, and not quite sure what to expect, we wandered out of Hakata station t...

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Oktoberfest 2013 Report

Report and photos by Katie Forster for Fukuoka Now. On Saturday evening we headed to the opening weekend of Fukuoka’s yearly Oktoberfest in search of good beer and the possibility ...

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