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I’d like to teach the world to surf

"Nihon de no mokuteki wa nan desu ka?"... I confess to being lost for words recently when a Japanese colleague asked me this deceptively simple question. Did he mean professionally...

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Go to Goto

Searching for the Simple Life? Located 80km off the coast of Nagasaki city, Fukue-shima is a perfect place for a detox from the city. By Marika Galadza

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New Multicultural Milestone – Fukuoka Masjid

This month Fukuoka Now reports on a significant landmark of internationalization in Fukuoka: the opening of Kyushu's first mosque, Fukuoka Masjid and Al-Nour Islamic Cultural Cente...

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A Wife Less Ordinary

It began with a light, deceptively superficial conversation on an evening soon after I started working... by Scott Burke

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A Nation of Food Otaku

I come from a country where culinary sophistication amounts to adding chives to your potatoes and where a jam sandwich is considered a perfectly acceptable lunch. by Chris Wood...

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Culture Shock! Japan

To a large degree, Westerners are encouraged from childhood to seek solutions to problems. Difficulties big and small should not be endured but resolved. by P.Sean Bramble

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Getting Jazzed in Fukuoka

This month Fukuoka Now asked musician, curator and resident expert Shayne Bowden to give us the lowdown on the Jazz Scene in Fukuoka.

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Dated Danji

For many foreign women living in Japan, there is a greater chance of becoming a yudansha in aikido or a Grand Master of sado than dating a Japanese man... by Shalini Tewari

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