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<\/a><\/p>\n“This weekend the July\/August issue of Monocle hits newsstands with our annual quality of life rankings for the world\u2019s major cities. As ever, the cities out on top are not surprising as they nail everything from transport and education to public health and sound urban planning with relative… (continues)<\/p>\n
In case you were wondering, the city ranking is:<\/p>\n
1) Z\u00fcrich
\n2) Helsinki
\n3) Copenhagen
\n4) Vienna
\n5) Munich
\n6) Melbourne
\n7) Tokyo
\n8 ) Sydney
\n9) Auckland
\n10) Stockholm
\n11) Kyoto
\n12) FUKUOKA
\n13) Hong Kong
\n14) Paris
\n15) Singapore
\n16) Hamburg
\n17) Honolulu
\n18) Berlin
\n19) Vancouver
\n20) Madrid
\n21) Barcelona
\n22) Portland
\n23) San Francisco
\n24) Montr\u00e9al
\n25) Geneva<\/p>\n
Source: http:\/\/www.ft.com\/cms\/s\/2\/bac56fbe-b617-11e1-a511-00144feabdc0.html#axzz1xwnyivTb<\/p>\n
So – what do you think? Does Fukuoka deserve such high praise? Your comments please!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Fukuoka City Ranked 12th Best City in the world! \u798f\u5ca1\u5e02\u300c\u4e16\u754cBEST\u30b7\u30c6\u30a312\u4f4d\u300d\u306b\u30e9\u30f3\u30af\u30a4\u30f3\uff01 Wow-wow-wow! \u2026the world is finally getting it. Fukuoka ranked yet even higher this year’s prestigious Monocle Magazine’s “Quality of Life” rankings for major cities. A full report is coming up in the magazine’s next issue. Meanwhile, here’s the announcement of the winners in a column […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":24586,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_locale":"en_US","_original_post":"24585","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[45],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-76193","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-culture","en-US"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/IMG_1256-e1340110102822.jpg?fit=640%2C480&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76193","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=76193"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76193\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":85174,"href":"https:\/\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76193\/revisions\/85174"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/24586"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=76193"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=76193"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=76193"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}