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Oct 24, 2011 Article
Nonobudo
Healthy All-You-Can-Eat For many foreigners, maintaining a healthy diet in Japan is a challenge. Fruits and vegetables aren’t quite the same as back home, and neither are the...
Oct 24, 2011 Article
Tattoo
Tribal Dining Cafe “Located one street south of where Nishi-dori meets Kokutai-dori is the new sister shop to the popular, bright white, open and airy Propeller Drive. Except...
Oct 24, 2011 Article
My Inaka: Making Paper in Yame
by Miki Rust The view of the mountains outside my front door might be breathtaking, but it’s because of the friendly folk of Yame that I’ve made this mountain village m...
Oct 24, 2011 Article
Bonenkai – It Costs a Lot to Forget
By Dr. Randall Pennington For those lucky few who don’t know the meaning of bonenkai, it means “forget the last year party”. But let me tell you what it really me...
Oct 24, 2011 Article
Shimabara Fantasia
Christmas Tree and Shimabara Castle Alight! A 40-minute jaunt across the Ariake Sea on a speedy, 50-passenger ship from the port at Omuta brings you to Shimabara in Nagasaki Prefec...
Oct 24, 2011 Article
My Inaka: The Perfect Mountain Getaway!
by Lindsay Marsh Are you craving a short, simple escape from your hectic city life? Pinpoint tiny Saga Prefecture on your Kyushu map and explore the cabin fever possibilities in Ni...
Oct 24, 2011 Article
Where’s the Love? Part Two
What has happened to Kyushu International FM? In the November 2002 issue of Fukuoka Now, we printed an editorial about Love FM, the local “international” radio station,...
Oct 24, 2011 Article
Perche No!
Italian Taste and Attitude Clearly much of owner chef Takeomi Yoshiyama four years in Italy was spent in kitchens learning the secrets of Italian cuisine, but as he’s proud t...
Oct 24, 2011 Article
Kyushu Winter Destinations
Sure, some of us come from colder countries than Japan, but the most painful thing about the Japanese winter is that you can never get the inside of your house warm! Japanese peopl...
Oct 24, 2011 Article
Chindo
Red-hot Korean Stews Winter in Japan wouldn’t be the same without hotpot, a steaming dish guaranteed to provide both sustenance and warmth. Chindo offers a spicy style of hot...