Following the large earthquake near Russia’s Kamchatka Peninsula on July 30, Kitakyushu Mayor Kazuhisa Takeuchi announced enhanced disaster preparedness measures. These include tsunami evacuation ...

Kitakyushu City will host the World Skateboarding Tour 2025 tournament this November, marking the second time the event has been held in Japan. Around 200 elite athletes from 45 countries are expected ...

A new episode of NHK World’s Train Cruise airs this Saturday, August 9, marking exactly 80 years since the atomic bombing of ...

On the former High Court site on the east side of Maizuru Park (near Akasaka Subway Station), around 60 stalls from kitchen ...

The Trump administration’s new 15% tariff on Japanese goods took effect on August 7, with uncertainty remaining over ...

T etsuo Yasaka, emeritus professor at Kyushu University and founder of QPS Institute, announced he will donate his 2 million ...

A research group led by Kyushu University has identified a previously unknown mechanism by which influenza spreads between cells. The team discovered that infected cells release ADP, which triggers ...

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Fukuoka City announced it will refund resident taxes mistakenly deducted from the August 15 pension payments of 5,868 individuals ...

Fukuoka Mayor Soichiro Takashima has revealed that he directly called Sanseito party leader Sohei Kamiya to dispute remarks made during a July campaign speech in which Kamiya criticized the city’s ...

A 35-year-old woman in Dazaifu City has been rearrested on suspicion of killing her newborn daughter by covering her nose and mouth shortly after giving birth at her apartment on March 31. The suspect ...