{"id":144847,"date":"2022-02-25T14:54:14","date_gmt":"2022-02-25T05:54:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/?post_type=news&#038;p=144847&#038;lang=en"},"modified":"2022-02-25T14:54:14","modified_gmt":"2022-02-25T05:54:14","slug":"fukuoka-prefecture-ranks-as-second-most-desirable-place-to-relocate-in-japan","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/en\/news\/fukuoka-prefecture-ranks-as-second-most-desirable-place-to-relocate-in-japan\/","title":{"rendered":"Fukuoka Prefecture Ranks As Second Most Desirable Place to Relocate in Japan"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">A Tokyo-based nonprofit organization, Furusato Kaiki Shien Center, published a 2021 ranking of popular prefectures for relocators, and Fukuoka ranked second. Other Kyushu prefectures, including Kagoshima (14th) and Kumamoto (18th), also ranked higher than last year. The survey was conducted with the cooperation of 10,000 individuals who visited the center for relocation consultation or attended related events during 2021. <\/span><b>Source: <\/b><a href=\"https:\/\/www.furusatokaiki.net\/topics\/ranking_2021\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Furusato Kaiki Shien Center<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-144849\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/fnn_kurume-view_2022_WEB.jpg?resize=1400%2C1050&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" width=\"1400\" height=\"1050\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/fnn_kurume-view_2022_WEB.jpg?w=1400&amp;ssl=1 1400w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/fnn_kurume-view_2022_WEB.jpg?resize=300%2C225&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/fnn_kurume-view_2022_WEB.jpg?resize=1024%2C768&amp;ssl=1 1024w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/fnn_kurume-view_2022_WEB.jpg?resize=768%2C576&amp;ssl=1 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1000px) 100vw, 1000px\" \/>Photo by Fukuoka Now<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>Disclaimer<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">: Fukuoka Now posts summaries of Kyushu area news for those who cannot read Japanese. 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Other Kyushu prefectures, including Kagoshima (14th) and&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":29305,"featured_media":144849,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","tags":[],"class_list":["post-144847","news","type-news","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","location-fukuoka-prefecture","news-category-general","en-US"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/144847","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\/29305"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=144847"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/144849"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=144847"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=144847"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}