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START: May 3, 2021 END: May 5, 2021 Three of Fukuoka’s leading natural marches: Kyushu Vegan Festival, Fukuoka Organic Marche, and Hakko (fermentation) Festival Itoshima will hold a joint marche in Itoshima. About 130 stores will open their stalls, focusing on organic and vegan food. During the event, an extra bus will run every 20 minutes from Chikuzen Maebaru S...
Fukuoka Now Azalea Guide 2021 Azalea is a shrub with red, pink, and white flowers that bloom from April to June. It is commonly used as a garden and roadside shrub in many parts of Japan since ancient times and introduced in Japan’s oldest collection of waka poems, the Manyoshu. During the Edo period (1603-1868), when horticulture became popular among the general public, many varieties of azaleas were bred from those growing wild in Kyushu. There are now more than 2,000 varieties of azaleas. Typical azaleas with flowers and leaves that are smaller than those of the original species include...
Calls arise in Japan to feed crop-damaging deer, wild boars to zoo carnivores April 11, 2021 (Mainichi Japan) A puma eats a hunted wild boar at Morioka Zoological Park in Iwate Prefecture. (Photo courtesy of the zoological park) FUKUOKA -- A former zookeeper and others in Japan are calling on zoos across Japan to feed their predators with wild boars, deer and other animals that are locally captured to prevent crop damage. Normally animals captured during crop protection work are simply disposed of. But in 2017 Omuta City Zoo in the southwestern Japan prefecture of Fukuoka began to fee...
Uber Eats Expands To Every Prefecture in Kyushu Uber Eats announced their service would become available in all prefectures within Kyushu. As of Mar. 4, the food delivery service begins in the prefectures of Saga and Yamaguchi. It will also begin operation in Iizuka City of Fukuoka on Mar. 11. Expanded service areas were announced for other regions, including Kitakyushu City (some parts of Kokurakita Ward, Tobata Ward, Yahatahigashi Ward Yahatanishi Ward Nakama City), Fukuoka City (Higashi Ward, Nishi Ward, Shingu Town, and Itoshima City), and Kumamoto City, too.
UpdatedTue, Feb 23, 2021 at 9:40 pm CT Reply LTHS students write to Itoshima High School students in Japan. (Yamasaki Toshishige) LTHS students write to Itoshima High School students in Japan. (Yamasaki Toshishige) LOCKPORT, IL — For the third year in a row, students taking Japanese at Lockport Township High School have had the opportunity to correspond with students from Japan. Teacher Karla Button's level 2 students write to Itoshima High School students in Japan. According to teacher Karla Button, students can write through typed letters and video messages and share their interests and ...