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Aug 1, 2009Now Reports
The Day I Became King
The day I became king, or at least felt like one, is every day; every day my foot crosses the threshold into a Lawson, 7-Eleven, dining, shopping, or customer service environment t...
Aug 1, 2009Now Reports
Rahmawati Hidayah (Yaya)
Yaya has a family history in Fukuoka: her father was an architecture ryugakusei for six years and president of Kyushu University Foreign Students Association. Yaya returned to Fuku...
Aug 1, 2009Now Reports
Fukuoka City’s First Swimming Beaches
All of us enjoy sea bathing with friends and family during Summer vacations. The best beaches for swimming in Fukuoka that come to mind are Nokonoshima, Ikinomatsubara, and Obaru i...
Jul 1, 2009Now Reports
Mame Fara Diouf
Fara first came to Japan in 1999 on tour with Mama Africa, a drumming troupe from his native Senegal, and has been based in Japan since 2002, finally settling in Fukuoka three mont...
Jul 1, 2009Now Reports
The Yamakasa Happi
It’s no wonder that everyone who sees the Hakata Gion Yamakasa festival thinks it’s terrific. Older men clad in business suits who seem so tired of life, and young people too, seem...
Jul 1, 2009Now Reports
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...
Jun 1, 2009Now Reports
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...
Jun 1, 2009Now Reports
A Wife Less Ordinary
It began with a light, deceptively superficial conversation on an evening soon after I started working... by Scott Burke
Jun 1, 2009Now Reports
Kabuki Comes To Town
Hakata-za is a big favorite not only of Fukuoka City residents, but its popularity has spread throughout Kyushu and extends to the rest of the country. Located in Shimokawabata-cho...
May 1, 2009Now Reports
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...