{"id":124827,"date":"2019-09-16T17:58:36","date_gmt":"2019-09-16T08:58:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/?post_type=news&#038;p=124827&#038;lang=en"},"modified":"2019-09-16T17:58:36","modified_gmt":"2019-09-16T08:58:36","slug":"fukuoka-retains-number-two-ranking-amongst-urban-centers","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/en\/news\/fukuoka-retains-number-two-ranking-amongst-urban-centers\/","title":{"rendered":"Fukuoka Retains Number Two Ranking Amongst Urban Centers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Mori Memorial Foundation\u2019s Institute for Urban Development released a ranking of urban cities in Japan for 2019 and Fukuoka again secured second place. The project analyzed seventy-two cities outside Tokyo based on six criteria, including business and accessibility. This year, Fukuoka saw a leap in its score for business thanks to the successful efforts in creating a comfortable environment for foreign residents. The cities of Kitakyushu, Kagoshima, and Kumamoto, ranked 17th, 19th and 22nd respectively in the ranking. <strong>Source:<\/strong> <a href=\"http:\/\/mori-m-foundation.or.jp\/ius\/jpc\/\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">Mori Memorial Foundation<\/a>  <\/p>\n<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/Urban-Centers-copy.jpg?resize=1400%2C1050&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" width=\"1400\" height=\"1050\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-124828\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/Urban-Centers-copy.jpg?w=1400&amp;ssl=1 1400w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/Urban-Centers-copy.jpg?resize=300%2C225&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/Urban-Centers-copy.jpg?resize=768%2C576&amp;ssl=1 768w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/Urban-Centers-copy.jpg?resize=1024%2C768&amp;ssl=1 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1000px) 100vw, 1000px\" \/> Photo for image purpose only.<\/p>\n<p><em><strong>Disclaimer<\/strong>: Fukuoka Now posts summaries of Kyushu area related news for the benefit of those who cannot read Japanese. Contents posted here are mostly summaries of publicly posted news stories from Japanese media organizations. Errors might occur during translation. Those errors are ours, and not the news source\u2019s. Photos and images are sourced separately and are for illustrative purposes only. Please use <a href=\"http:\/\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/contact\/\">this form<\/a> to send feedback and questions.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Mori Memorial Foundation\u2019s Institute for Urban Development released a ranking of urban cities in Japan for 2019 and Fukuoka again secured second place. The project analyzed seventy-two cities outside Tokyo based on six criteria, including business and accessibility. This year, Fukuoka saw a leap in&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":27918,"featured_media":124828,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","tags":[],"class_list":["post-124827","news","type-news","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","location-fukuoka-city","news-category-society","en-US"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/124827","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/news"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/27918"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=124827"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/124828"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=124827"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=124827"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}