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Roro
Hailing from Orlando, Florida, Roro came to Japan in 2009 to challenge himself and breakout from the hiphop scene back home. The producer, rapper and songwriter started performing ...
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Quin Arbeitman
“I like to get people’s emotions growing - that’s what happens to me when I start playing,” says Quin Arbeitman, a regular performer on the Fukuoka jazz scene. Piano is his instrum...
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Chonnakarn Akrapreedee
This month we checked in with Chonnakarn Akrapreedee, who landed her first job with Thai Airways International in 2000, following a short stopover at Star Alliance in Frankfurt. Sh...
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Joëlle Sambuc Bloise
The Nishinippon Businesswomen Association (NBWA) is a Fukuoka-based discussion and networking platform, run in Japanese and English, for women working in the male-dominated world o...
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Srinivasa Popuri
After joining the UN in 1998, Srinivasa Popuri was appointed the Senior Human Settlements Officer of the UN-Habitat Regional Office for Asia last year. He’s worked in countless cou...
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Tomek Ziemba
Originally from Ottawa, Canada, Tomek Ziemba (nickname TK) came to Kyushu on the JET Programme in 2007. Since arriving, however, he has taken a different path to his teaching colle...
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Yu Ping Tseng
While his finance-major classmates went on to work in banks and security companies in Taiwan, Yu Ping Tseng holds the title of General Manager of China Airlines’ Kyushu/Yamaguchi b...
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Evan Kirby
Ambitious, dare we say “genki”, Scotsman Evan Kirby runs GenkiJACS Japanese School in Fukuoka. At age eighteen Evan moved from his small hometown of Dumfries to Hawaii in search of...
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Jean-Paul Wuyts
A trained Japanologist specializing in International Politics and Economics of Japan - Jean-Paul Wuyts (known as J.P) is not your average foreigner in Japan. Hailing from a small t...
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Jody Archer
It’s the place where everybody knows your name – Jody Archer’s FUBAR on Oyafuko-dori. During his early days in Fukuoka, working as an ALT on the JET program, British-born Jody came...
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