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Beer of Japan Festival 2021 Fukuoka Castle START: Apr 28, 2021 END: May 5, 2021 Enjoy 30 kinds of craft beers from six breweries (from Hokkaido, Iwate, Hyogo, Okayama, Shimane, Fukuoka) in one of Japan’s biggest craft beer festivals. There will also be 11 food booths to enjoy with the beer. You can purchase tickets at the ticket booths and exchange them at the be...
Fukuoka Castle Sakura Festival Goes Online For 2021 The 2021 edition of the Fukuoka Castle Sakura Festival will be held online. The festival will live-stream sakura videos later this month to share the joy of cherry blossoms viewing while securing safety for the public. It will also provide “ hanami etiquette” to prevent the new coronavirus spread. Contents and schedules will be announced in mid-March. *Lightup events, stage performances, and operation of yatai stalls have been canceled for 2021. Parties, drinking activities, and use of power generators are prohibited in Maizuru Park bet...
Tree Planting Ceremony at Tōgō Memorial On November 22, 2020, there was a planting ceremony for a sapling grown from Togo’s Ginkgo in Kagoshima City. At the ceremony, the head of the Japan British Society of Kagoshima, Shimazu Kimiyasu, gave a speech describing the donated saplings as deepening historic bonds between Britain and Kagoshima. “This further highlights the connections made by Admiral Tōgō Heihachirō [a native of the Satsuma domain, the original home of the ginkgo] and Japanese Consul Ueno Kagenori during their stay in Britain, and I pray that planting this new tree will h...
Severe cold spells and surging power demand are tightening Japan’s power supply amid declining LNG stocks and low renewable output, Minister of Economy, Trade and Industry Hiroshi Kajiyama said Jan. 12, with utilities undertaking emergency fuel procurement. “Amid severe cold weather, power demand is increasing significantly compared to levels in normal years,” Kajiyama said at ...
A Koryu-class submarine of the Imperial Japanese Navy being dismantled in Kure, Hiroshima Prefecture. The head of the submarine is in the foreground, with torpedo tubes installed one above the other. (Asahi Shimbun file photo) MATSUE--Now overgrown with weeds and vegetation, the decaying ruins here offer stark testimony to the extreme attempts Japan made in a last-ditch effort to avoid defeat in the waning months of World War II. The site on uninhabited Kushima island in the Sea of Japan was apparently intended to serve as a base for Koryu-class midget submarines developed for special attack...