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The Consulate of the United States, Fukuoka (Japanese: 在福岡米国領事館) is a consular post of the United States in Fukuoka City, Fukuoka Prefecture, Japan. The consulate has a public relations division called the Fukuoka American Center. [1] Currently it is the only U.S. consulate in Kyushu, [2] but for about 80 years from the late ...
Fukuoka (C) Fukuoka, Kagoshima to the Island of Yakushima, Kumamoto, Miyazaki, Nagasaki, Oita, Saga, and Yamaguchi Nagoya (C) Aichi, Gifu, Mie NOTE: Consulate Nagoya has reporting responsibilities for these 3 prefectures and provides emergency American citizen services (ACS).
Due to the significance of the relations between the two countries in recent years on trade and defense, with Japan being described by the United States State Department as "the cornerstone of the U.S. security interests in Asia," [1] the post has been held by many significant American politicians, including Mike Mansfield, Walter Mondale, Tom ...
Embassy 2021 [11] Burundi: Embassy 1997 [12] Central African Republic: Embassy 1992 [13] Nauru: Consulate 1989 [14] Somalia: Embassy 1990 [15] South Yemen: Embassy 1982 [16] [17] Fukuoka Australia: Consulate-General 2019 [18] Canada: Consulate 2007 [19] United Kingdom: Consulate 2006 [20] Hakodate Soviet Union: Consulate: 1944 [21] [22] United ...
The first American consulate in Japan was opened at the temple of Gyokusen-ji, Shimoda, Shizuoka under Consul General Townsend Harris.Gyokusen-ji is also the location of a small number of foreign graves dating from as early as 1854 marking the final resting place of U.S. forces personnel that died while serving as part of Commodore Matthew Perry's 'Black Ship' fleet.
U.S. Department of State Facilities and Areas of Jurisdictions. The United States has the second largest number of active diplomatic posts of any country in the world after the People's Republic of China, [1] including 271 bilateral posts (embassies and consulates) in 173 countries, as well as 11 permanent missions to international organizations and seven other posts (as of November 2023 [2]).
The U.S. Consulate Office Building, Fukuoka, Japan. In these early years, 1949–1953, Rockrise also taught at the School of Architecture at the University of California at Berkeley, and was the faculty advisor for the student chapter of the American Institute of Architects (AIA). [citation needed]
The consulate has a public relations division known as the Kansai American Center. [ 1 ] Its jurisdictional area covers the Hokuriku region (excluding 3 prefectures of Niigata Prefecture ), Kansai region (excluding 2 prefectures and 4 cities of Mie Prefecture ), Chugoku region (excluding some towns and cities of Yamaguchi Prefecture ), and all ...