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When traveling on the Nishitetsu Omuta line towards Yanagawa travellers are treated with glimpses of a huge white statue in…

A neat afternoon at a Whisky conference

Whisky Talk Fukuoka is an annual event, now in its tenth year. It was held on Sunday June 16th and…

Fukuoka Prefecture is slightly off the tourist track yet it has so many hidden treasures, and Nanzoin Temple (南蔵院) is…

A version of this article was published in Fukuoka Now, July 2019. Dazaifu is a very important place in Japan…

Yanagawa is a peaceful canal town 70 km south west of Fukuoka, in the deep south of Kyushu. The town…

This exhibition was a collaborative exhibition between FAAM, Fukuoka Art Museum and Fukuoka City Museum marking the upcoming Rugby World…

The bus tour organized by Fukuoka Now on behalf of local governments to Chikugo last Sunday was a brilliant day-out,…

Hakushu Festival Suijo Paradeis a festival dedicated to the tanka poet and children songwriter, Hakushu Kitahara (1885-1942), who was born…

The Kougei (crafts) Expo was held the first weekend of November in 2018. This report, my first for the magazine,…

This was originally published in two separate reports (prose and poetry) for Fukuoka Now in December 2018. It was accompanied…