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 ...

At Fukuoka Now, our mission is to share the latest from Fukuoka and grow the city’s fanbase—among both international visitors ...

According to Japan’s internal affairs ministry, the total population of the eight prefectures in Kyushu and Okinawa ...

A research group led by Kyushu University has identified a previously unknown mechanism by which influenza spreads between ...

Kyushu University granted former Malaysian Prime Minister Mahathir Mohamad an honorary doctorate on August 6 in recognition ...