There are endless urban centers to visit in Japan beyond Tokyo and ... as pretty good in a ramen metropole like Fukuoka." Bekk is worth a day trip to Kitakyushu, an hour by train northeast of ...

Police released a sketch of the face of a man whose body was found floating about 10 meters offshore in Asano, Kokurakita Ward on February 20. In the sketch, he is shown balding with a plump face. He ...

KITA-KYUSHU--Once Japan’s most feared yakuza gang, Kudo-kai based here in Fukuoka Prefecture now exists mostly in name only. Its leader is in prison, the group’s ranks are depleted and those ...

FUKUOKA--Ten years after prefectural police ... particularly against the Kudo-kai, which is based in Kita-Kyushu in the prefecture. The campaign against the Kudo-kai, which has been designated ...