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Fukuoka (Japanese: 福岡市, Fukuoka-shi, [ɸɯ̥kɯoka ꜜɕi] ⓘ) is the sixth-largest city in Japan and the capital city of Fukuoka Prefecture, Japan. The city is built along the shores of Hakata Bay, and has been a center of international commerce since ancient times. The area has long been considered the gateway to the country, as it is ...
Fukuoka Kokusai Center opens. 1982 Subway Hakozaki Line begins operating. Fukuoka City Archaeology Center established. 1983 - Subway Gion Station opens. 1989 Fukuoka Tower built. Fukuoka Hawks baseball team active. [18] 1990 Fukuoka City Museum established. Population: 1,221,600. [7] 1993 - Fukuoka Dome (stadium) opens.
Fukuoka Prefecture had the highest frequency of youth crime among the prefectures of Japan from 2003 to 2007. [ 20 ] According to statistics from the national police, the crime rate in Fukuoka was the eighth-highest in 2017, lower than in Osaka , Tokyo , Hyogo , Aichi , Saitama , Chiba and Ibaraki .
Japan has a population of over 123 million as of 2025, making it the eleventh-most populous country. The capital of Japan and its largest city is Tokyo; the Greater Tokyo Area is the largest metropolitan area in the world, with more than 37 million inhabitants as of 2024. Japan is divided into 47 administrative prefectures and eight traditional ...
TVQ Kyushu Broadcasting Co., Ltd. (株式会社TVQ九州放送, Kabushikigaisha TVQ Kyūshū Hōsō, TVQ), callsign JOTY-DTV (channel 7) is a Japanese television station based in Fukuoka that serves as the affiliate of the TX Network for the Fukuoka Prefecture.
A signal stop was established on this location on 4 February 1935. It was promoted to a full station on 20 April 1950 as Nishitetsu Tatara Station (西鉄多々良駅). It was renamed Keirinjō-mae Station (競輪場前駅) on 5 March 1954. Due to the closure of the Fukuoka Velodrome, the name was changed to Kaizuka Station on 1 November 1962.
Leiji Matsumoto was born on January 25, 1938, in Kurume, Fukuoka. [6] He was the middle child of a family of seven brothers, and, in his early childhood, Matsumoto was given a 35mm film projector by his father, and watched American cartoons during the Pacific War.
inscribed on the UNESCO World Heritage List as one of the Sites of Japan’s Meiji Industrial Revolution: Iron and Steel, Shipbuilding and Coal Mining; [19] designation includes the sites of Miyahara Pit (宮原坑跡) and Manda Pit (万田坑跡) and an area of Arao in Kumamoto Prefecture