Now Reports
- TOP
- Now Reports
Jul 3, 2012Now Reports
‘North Tenjin’ Shopping Center Open
Shoppers Daiei reopened June 28 as ‘North Tenjin’. It had been closed since summer last year for renovations. The new center has 30 specialty stores including Shimamura and a ¥100 ...
Jul 2, 2012Now Reports
Tours of Yamakasa Floats on July 8
We Love Tenjin Association is organizing a walking tour of the floats used in the Yamakasa festival. The tour starts at 13:00 on July 8 at Lion Square in front of the Mitsukoshi De...
Jun 28, 2012Now Reports
July 2012 Fukuoka Now Magazine
This summer in Fukuoka is going to be HOT! This issue, we get ready for the summer's biggest festivals– Red Bull Sound Voyage, Sunset Live and Isla de Salsa –whilst cover model Tam...
Jun 28, 2012Now Reports
The Nagare Community
The history of one of Hakata’s best known festivals, the Hakata Gion Yamakasa held in July, dates back more than 700 years. It is a compelling sight to watch loincloth-clad men run...
Jun 27, 2012Now Reports
Gaikokupedia
If there’s anything I don’t know about Japanese history, architecture, culture or politics, I find the longest answers often come by asking a random gaikokujin a completely unrelat...
Jun 25, 2012Now Reports
Micaela Braithwaite
Micaela first started making YouTube videos to assure her concerned parents of their teenage daughter’s safety in Japan. “I was living in Kumamoto and I was 18 years old. The inten...
Jun 21, 2012Now Reports
Canada Day Hats and Leis!
A huge box of decorations for the Fukuoka Canada Day Party arrived at the Fukuoka Now office today and we wasted no time in trying the goods on! We got Canadian flag paper plates, ...
Jun 19, 2012Now Reports
First Rock Climbing Facility in Tenjin
Bravo Climbing have opened an indoor rock climbing facility in Tenjin. With up to nine levels of difficulty on the walls there is a climb for everyone. The joining fee is ¥1,575 an...
Jun 18, 2012Now Reports
Fukuoka Firefighter Fired For Photos On Facebook
A 36 year old Tagawa City firefighter was dismissed for using his mobile phone to photograph and post to Facebook the scene of a fire he attended on June 9. His post on the social ...
Jun 18, 2012Now Reports
Kitakyushu City to Accept More Debris From Tsunami Hit Miyagi
Kitakyushu Mayor, Kenjiro Kitahashi will formally announce on June 20, that from August this year, Kitakyushu City will accept debris on a regular basis from Ishinomaki City, Miyag...