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Oshima Island, where I work, is a 25-minute ferry ride away from the Fukuoka port, has a circumference of about 15 km, and a ...

Japan’s first school lunch is said ... twice a week to 1.3 million elementary schoolchildren in Tokyo, Yokohama, Nagoya, Kyoto, Osaka, Kobe, Hiroshima, and Fukuoka. However, when Japan regained ...

Police in Fukuoka City have arrested a 48-year-old man on suspicion of taking voyeuristic images of a 21-year-old woman while she was taking a bath at her home. According to police, Suguru Wakatsuki, ...

These figures, however, exclude elementary school students. Because sexual violence goes beyond ... But Hisako Ura, director ...

It was also in Sasebo that a DODDS elementary school teacher caught George’s ... In 1981, they got married – twice – in Fukuoka: once in a Japanese government building and once on base.

A boy was found lying on the street barefoot and bleeding in front of a hotel in Hakata Ward, Fukuoka, early Saturday morning, police said.