In 2024, foreign cruise ships made 1,923 calls at Japanese ports—a 1.5-fold increase from the previous year, according to the ...

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In October, U.S.-based Amkor Technology—ranked second globally in semiconductor back-end services—opened an R&D center in ...

Nippon Shokubai Co., Ltd., a global chemical manufacturer, will build a new plant in Fukuoka Prefecture to produce electrolytes for lithium-ion batteries—a core component of electric vehicles. The ...

CDIB Capital Group, a leading Taiwanese venture capital firm, will open an office in Fukuoka—its second base in Japan after Tokyo. The firm is attracted by cutting-edge technologies emerging from ...

O n a roughly 50-meter, two-lane stretch of road between the former IMS Building and the Tenjin Twin Building in Tenjin ...

T he Tanabata Festival is a celebration aimed at fostering the development of learning, culture, arts, and ushering in good fortune. It draws inspiration from a poem penned by Sugawara Michizane, who ...

The Fukuoka District Meteorological Observatory announced on the morning of June 27 that the rainy season in northern Kyushu ...

A vocational school in Fukuoka City that trains future flight attendants hosted a workshop focused on how to support healthy, ...

Kitakyushu City Library began offering free access to archived NHK and commercial TV programs on June 24. The service, ...

A special civic education class was held at Shonai Elementary School in Iizuka City to teach sixth graders about government ...