Fukuoka, Japan News Archives

The Fukuoka Red Warblers will not take part next season in the Shikoku-Kyushu Island League due to financial difficulties, the independent league said on Friday.

Correspondence to Kazunori Toyoda, MD, Cerebrovascular Division, National Cardiovascular Center, 5-7-1 Fujishirodai, Suita, Osaka 565-8565, Japan.

TOKYO: A Japanese navy destroyer has collided with a commercial vessel off southern Japan, starting fires on both ships and injuring one crew member, defense officials said Tuesday.

The finance ministry on Tuesday said that in the July to September quarter, Japan's economic conditions improved, marking the first time the bank has posted a second consecutive rise since 2004, on the back of improving conditions in the manufacturing sector.

Hawai 'i' s David Ishii birdied the first playoff hole yesterday to win the Asahi Ryoken Cup invitational in Fukuoka, Japan.

I took the train down and back to Kokura and Hakata for the second Kita-Kyushu Biennale and to see the fourth Asia Pacific Triennale at the Asia Museum in Fukuoka.

About 120 judicial scriveners and lawyers in Kyushu have been ordered to pay about 350 million yen in penalties and other back taxes for failing to declare 1 billion yen in income over the three years through 2007, according to sources.

A sign taped to a window at Chris and Amy Savoie's home Thursday morning asked reporters to contact their press agent.

Prosecutors on Thursday released a U.S. man who had been arrested over the alleged abduction of minors after taking his children away from his former Japanese wife in Yanagawa, Fukuoka Prefecture, according to sources.

1-1-1 Minami-Kogushi, Ube, Yamaguchi 755-8505, 2Department of Biotechnology, National Institute of Technology and Evaluation.

The labels "architect", "urban planner" and "inventor" do not even begin to describe Shunya Susuki, whose consuming interest in creating things from young is matched only by his breadth of projects and ideas, writes FAEZAH ISMAIL.

The second independent trilateral leaders' summit among China, Japan and the Republic of Korea on Saturday will create great hopes for future cooperation and development in this region, Chinese experts said.

A new direct route between Hanoi and Fukuoka, the capital city of Kyushu, Japan was opened by Vietnam Airlines on October 9. There are 2 flights a week on Tuesday and Saturday.

The leaders of China, Japan and South Korea kicked off a summit in Beijing on Saturday expected to focus on bringing North Korea back to nuclear disarmament talks and building regional trust.

Design of a new generation vacuum tube amplifier for EK Japan Co., Ltd. who develops numerous electronic kits/ gadgets targeted at both children and adults.

Oh, there are so many benefits to living in Korea ... my most recent benefit of Korea is its location near Japan.

Tuesday, 6 October 2009, 2:02 pm Press Release: Compac Sorting Equipment New Zealand-owned Compac Sorting Equipment has achieved a major break through in the Japanese market, landing its first ever deal with a kiwifruit pack house in the Fukuoka province.

Koichi Kusuhara, 1 Yorihiro Nishimura, Hiroyuki Shimizu, Ryutaro Kira, Hiroyuki Torisu, and Toshiro Hara Author affiliations: Kyushu University, Fukuoka, Japan ; and National Institute of Infectious Diseases, Tokyo, Japan To the Editor: Hand, foot, and mouth disease is a common illness in children and is mainly caused by coxsackievirus A16 and ...

Reacting to the case of a Franklin, Tenn., father, the U.S. State Department called upon Japan Wednesday to sign an international agreement on parental child abductions.

In never-seen video, a Franklin father -- who now sits in a Japanese jail -- talks about what he thought about the laws that are now being used against him.