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, ...

Japan’s Meteorological Agency raised the alert level for Mount Shinmoedake, part of the Kirishima mountain range ...