Large-scale exercises involving Japan’s Self-Defense Forces and US forces began on Oct. 19, 2026, with training across Kyushu and Okinawa. The 11-day Keen Sword exercise includes the use of civilian ...

Installation of poster boards for Fukuoka’s mayoral election began on Oct. 19, 2026, with costs rising from an initial 51.7 ...

Police arrested a 24-year-old man on suspicion of drunken cycling in Fukuoka’s Chuo Ward early on Oct. 17. A pedestrian ...

Kitakyushu announced Happy and Charmy as the names of its two new city mascots on Oct. 19, 2026. Designed by Susumu ...

Fukuoka Institute of Technology researchers and a prefectural soy sauce cooperative have developed soy-sauce-style seasonings ...

Eighteen hotels took part in a hospitality recruitment fair in Fukuoka’s Hakata Ward on Oct. 13. The city and other ...

Eighteen teams attended an Oct. 16 briefing for prospective candidates in Fukuoka’s mayoral election. The attendance included ...

A small animal found in a cockpit caused the cancellation of a Japan Air Commuter flight from Fukuoka to Kagoshima on Oct. 19 ...

Nishitetsu plans to expand contactless credit card payments to approximately 1,300 route buses in the Fukuoka metropolitan ...

The new Museum Garden opened at Fukuoka City Museum in Sawara Ward on Oct. 18. About 60 people attended the opening ceremony.

Austrian experimental music duo DRANK comes to Fukuoka as part of its first Japan tour. Featuring Ingrid Schmoliner on ...