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Fukuoka

Index Fukuoka

is the capital city of Fukuoka Prefecture, situated on the northern shore of Japanese island Kyushu. [1]

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Actor

An actor (often actress for women; see terminology) is a person who portrays a character in a performance.

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Aftershock

An aftershock is a smaller earthquake that occurs after a previous large earthquake, in the same area of the main shock.

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Ai Kawashima

is a Japanese pop singer-songwriter and pianist.

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Ai Nonaka

is a Japanese voice actress and singer.

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Air Next

was a low-cost airline based on the grounds of Fukuoka Airport in Hakata-ku, Fukuoka, Fukuoka Prefecture, Japan and a wholly owned subsidiary of All Nippon Airways (ANA).

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Akitomo Takeno

is a current professional basketball assistant coach for Nishinomiya Storks in Japan.

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All Nippon Airways

, also known as or ANA, is the largest airline in Japan on the basis of fleet size.

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Allies of World War II

The Allies of World War II, called the United Nations from the 1 January 1942 declaration, were the countries that together opposed the Axis powers during the Second World War (1939–1945).

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Angela Harry

Angela Harry (born April 12, 1963) is a model, actress and voice actress.

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Asian Development Bank

The Asian Development Bank (ADB) is a regional development bank established on 19 December 1966, which is headquartered in the Ortigas Center located in the city of Mandaluyong, Metro Manila, Philippines.

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Aska (singer)

Aska, (born on February 24, 1958, Ono, now part of Onojō, Fukuoka) is a Japanese singer-songwriter.

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Association football

Association football, more commonly known as football or soccer, is a team sport played between two teams of eleven players with a spherical ball.

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Atlanta

Atlanta is the capital city and most populous municipality of the state of Georgia in the United States.

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Auckland City

Auckland City is the part of Auckland urban area covering the isthmus and most of the islands of the Hauraki Gulf.

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Avispa Fukuoka

For the record label, see Avispa.

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Ayumi Hamasaki

is a Japanese recording artist, record producer, actress, model, spokesperson and entrepreneur.

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Ōhori Park

is a park in Chūō-ku, Fukuoka, Japan and a registered Place of Scenic Beauty.

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Ōmuta, Fukuoka

is a city in Fukuoka Prefecture, Japan.

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B.League

The B.League is a professional men's basketball league that began in Japan in September 2016.

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Bachata (music)

Bachata is a genre of Latin American music that originated in the Dominican Republic in the first half of the 20th century with European, Indigenous, and African musical elements.

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Bachata en Fukuoka

"Bachata en Fukuoka" (English: "Bachata in Fukuoka") is the first single released by Juan Luis Guerra for his album A Son de Guerra.

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Baseball

Baseball is a bat-and-ball game played between two opposing teams who take turns batting and fielding.

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Basketball

Basketball is a team sport played on a rectangular court.

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Beetle (JR Kyushu)

Beetle ferry is a hydrofoil ferry service that travels between Fukuoka, Japan and Busan, South Korea.

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Birmingham Royal Ballet

Birmingham Royal Ballet (BRB) is one of the three major ballet companies of the United Kingdom, alongside The Royal Ballet and the English National Ballet.

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Black-headed gull

The black-headed gull (Chroicocephalus ridibundus) is a small gull that breeds in much of Europe and Asia, and also in coastal eastern Canada.

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Bordeaux

Bordeaux (Gascon Occitan: Bordèu) is a port city on the Garonne in the Gironde department in Southwestern France.

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Boshin War

The, sometimes known as the Japanese Revolution, was a civil war in Japan, fought from 1868 to 1869 between forces of the ruling Tokugawa shogunate and those seeking to return political power to the Imperial Court.

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Busan

Busan, formerly known as Pusan and now officially is South Korea's second most-populous city after Seoul, with a population of over 3.5 million inhabitants.

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Camellia

Camellia is a genus of flowering plants in the family Theaceae.

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Chage and Aska

Chage and Aska are a Japanese popular music duo composed of male singer-songwriters from Fukuoka Prefecture: Chage (born January 6, 1958) and Aska (born February 24, 1958).

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Chūō-ku, Fukuoka

is one of the seven wards of Fukuoka city in Japan.

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Cherry blossom

A cherry blossom is the flower of any of several trees of genus Prunus, particularly the Japanese cherry, Prunus serrulata, which is called sakura after the Japanese (桜 or 櫻; さくら).

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Chikushi District, Fukuoka

is a district located in Fukuoka Prefecture, Japan.

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Chikuzen Province

was an old province of Japan in the area that is today part of Fukuoka Prefecture in Kyūshū.

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Cinnamomum camphora

Cinnamomum camphora (commonly known as camphor tree, camphorwood or camphor laurel) is a large evergreen tree that grows up to tall.

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Cities designated by government ordinance of Japan

A, also known as a or, is a Japanese city that has a population greater than 500,000 and has been designated as such by order of the Cabinet of Japan under Article 252, Section 19 of the Local Autonomy Law.

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Cities of Japan

A is a local administrative unit in Japan.

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Coca-Cola Red Sparks

The Coca-Cola Red Sparks are a Japanese company-owned rugby union team based in Fukuoka city, Kyūshū.

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Daiei

, based in Kobe, is one of the largest supermarket chains in Japan.

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Daiichi University, College of Pharmaceutical Sciences

is a private university in Fukuoka, Fukuoka, Japan, established in 1960 and contributes to wide variety of medical research within Japan.

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Daimyō

The were powerful Japanese feudal lords who, until their decline in the early Meiji period, ruled most of Japan from their vast, hereditary land holdings.

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Dan Takuma

was a Japanese businessman who was Director-General of Mitsui, one of the leading Japanese zaibatsu (family conglomerates).

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Dazaifu, Fukuoka

is a city located in Fukuoka Prefecture, Japan.

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Delhi

Delhi (Dilli), officially the National Capital Territory of Delhi (NCT), is a city and a union territory of India.

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Dialect

The term dialect (from Latin,, from the Ancient Greek word,, "discourse", from,, "through" and,, "I speak") is used in two distinct ways to refer to two different types of linguistic phenomena.

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Dominican Republic

The Dominican Republic (República Dominicana) is a sovereign state located in the island of Hispaniola, in the Greater Antilles archipelago of the Caribbean region.

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Earthquake

An earthquake (also known as a quake, tremor or temblor) is the shaking of the surface of the Earth, resulting from the sudden release of energy in the Earth's lithosphere that creates seismic waves.

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Elaiza Ikeda

is a Filipino-Japanese fashion model and actress.

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Empire of Japan

The was the historical nation-state and great power that existed from the Meiji Restoration in 1868 to the enactment of the 1947 constitution of modern Japan.

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Encyclopædia Britannica Eleventh Edition

The Encyclopædia Britannica Eleventh Edition (1910–11) is a 29-volume reference work, an edition of the Encyclopædia Britannica.

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Eri Nobuchika

is a Japanese singer-songwriter, under the Fearless Records label on Sony Music Associated Records.

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Erina Ikuta

is a ninth generation member of J-pop idol group Morning Musume and former model.

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Ferris wheel

A Ferris wheel (sometimes called a big wheel, observation wheel, or, in the case of the very tallest examples, giant wheel) is an amusement ride consisting of a rotating upright wheel with multiple passenger-carrying components (commonly referred to as passenger cars, cabins, tubs, capsules, gondolas, or pods) attached to the rim in such a way that as the wheel turns, they are kept upright, usually by gravity.

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Ferry

A ferry is a merchant vessel used to carry passengers, and sometimes vehicles and cargo as well, across a body of water.

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Festival

A festival is an event ordinarily celebrated by a community and centering on some characteristic aspect of that community and its religion or cultures.

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Film director

A film director is a person who directs the making of a film.

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Film producer

A film producer is a person who oversees the production of a film.

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Fujieda, Shizuoka

is a city located in Shizuoka Prefecture, Japan.

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Fukuoka Airport

, formerly known as Itazuke Air Base, is an international and domestic airport located east of Hakata Station in Hakata-ku, Fukuoka, Japan.

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Fukuoka Art Museum

is an art museum in Fukuoka, Japan.

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Fukuoka Broadcasting Corporation

is a Japanese TV station affiliated with Nippon News Network (NNN) and Nippon Television Network System (NNS) in Fukuoka, Fukuoka Prefecture, Kyushu, Japan.

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Fukuoka Castle

is a Japanese castle located in Chūō-ku, Fukuoka, Japan.

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Fukuoka City Subway

The serves Fukuoka, Japan.

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Fukuoka College of Health Sciences

is a private junior college in Fukuoka, Fukuoka, Japan, established in 1997.

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Fukuoka Convention Center

The Fukuoka Convention Center in Fukuoka, Japan is a collection of three separate buildings operated by the Fukuoka Convention Center Foundation.

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Fukuoka Institute of Technology

is a private university in East District of Fukuoka, Fukuoka Prefecture, Japan.

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Fukuoka Jo Gakuin University

is a private women's college in Minami-ku, Fukuoka, Japan.

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Fukuoka Marathon

The, held in Fukuoka, Japan, is an IAAF Gold Label international men's marathon race established in 1947.

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Fukuoka mayoral election, 2006

The city of Fukuoka, Fukuoka Prefecture, Japan held a mayoral election on November 19, 2006.

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Fukuoka Municipal Zoo and Botanical Garden

The, also known as the Fukuoka City Zoological Garden, is a zoo and botanical garden established in 1953 and located within Minami-koen (En: "South park") at 1-1, Minami-Koen, Chūō-ku, Fukuoka, Fukuoka, Japan.

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Fukuoka Oriental Ceramics Museum

opened in Fukuoka, Japan, in 1999.

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Fukuoka Prefectural Museum of Art

opened in Fukuoka, Japan, in 1985.

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Fukuoka Prefecture

is a prefecture of Japan on Kyūshū Island.

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Fukuoka Prize

The is an award established by the city of Fukuoka and the Fukuoka City International Foundation (formerly The Yokatopia Foundation) to honor the outstanding work of individuals or organizations in preserving or creating Asian culture.

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Fukuoka SoftBank Hawks

The are a Japanese baseball team based in Fukuoka, Fukuoka Prefecture.

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Fukuoka Tower

is a tall tower located in the Momochihama area of Fukuoka, Japan.

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Fukuoka University

The University of Fukuoka or Fukuoka University is a research university located in Fukuoka, on the island of Kyushu, in Japan.

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Fukuoka Women's University

is a public university in Fukuoka, Fukuoka, Japan.

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Fukuoka Yahuoku! Dome

The is a baseball field, located in Chūō-ku, Fukuoka, Japan.

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Fukuoka–Kitakyushu

is the most common name given to the region comprising the metropolitan areas of the cities of Fukuoka and Kitakyushu in Fukuoka Prefecture, Japan and in between.

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Fundoshi

is the traditional Japanese undergarment for adult males, made from a length of cotton.

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Gakuryū Ishii

, formerly known as, is a Japanese filmmaker.

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Genkai Sea

The is a body of water that comprises the southwestern tip of the Sea of Japan and borders the northern coasts of Fukuoka and Saga prefectures.

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Geta (footwear)

are a form of traditional Japanese footwear that resemble clogs and flip-flops.

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Golden Week (Japan)

(or GW) is a week from the 29th of April to early May containing a number of Japanese holidays.

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Goryeo

Goryeo (918–1392), also spelled as Koryŏ, was a Korean kingdom established in 918 by King Taejo.

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Government of Delhi

The Government of the National Capital Territory of Delhi is the governing authority of the Indian national capital territory of Delhi and its 11 districts.

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Guangzhou

Guangzhou, also known as Canton, is the capital and most populous city of the province of Guangdong.

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Hakata Bay

is a bay in the northwestern part of Fukuoka city, on the Japanese island of Kyūshū.

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Hakata dialect

is a Japanese dialect spoken in Fukuoka city.

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Hakata Dontaku

The is a festival held annually in Fukuoka, Japan.

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Hakata Gion Yamakasa

is a Japanese festival celebrated from the 1st until the 15th of July in Hakata, Fukuoka.

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Hakata Station

is a major railway station in Hakata-ku, Fukuoka, Japan.

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Hakata-ku, Fukuoka

is a ward of the city of Fukuoka in Fukuoka Prefecture, Japan.

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Hakozaki Shrine

is a Shintō shrine in Fukuoka.

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Hanshin Tigers

The are a Nippon Professional Baseball team playing in the Central League.

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Happi

A happi (法被, 半被) is a traditional Japanese straight-sleeved coat usually made of indigo or brown cotton and imprinted with a distinctive mon (crest).

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Harlequin Air

was an airline with its headquarters on the grounds of Fukuoka Airport in Hakata-ku, Fukuoka, Fukuoka Prefecture, Japan.

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Hōjō clan

The in the history of Japan was a family who controlled the hereditary title of shikken (regent) of the Kamakura shogunate between 1203 and 1333.

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Hōjō Tokimune

of the Hōjō clan was the eighth shikken (officially regent (of the shōgun), but de facto ruler of Japan) of the Kamakura shogunate (reigned 1268–84), known for leading the Japanese forces against the invasion of the Mongols and for spreading Zen Buddhism.

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Higashi-ku, Fukuoka

is one of the seven wards of Fukuoka City in Japan.

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HKT48

HKT48 (read "H.K.T. Forty-eight") are a Japanese idol girl group produced by Yasushi Akimoto.

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Honbasho

A is an official professional sumo tournament.

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Honshu

Honshu is the largest and most populous island of Japan, located south of Hokkaido across the Tsugaru Strait, north of Shikoku across the Inland Sea, and northeast of Kyushu across the Kanmon Straits.

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Humid subtropical climate

A humid subtropical climate is a zone of climate characterized by hot and humid summers, and mild to cool winters.

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Hydrofoil

A hydrofoil is a lifting surface, or foil, that operates in water.

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Ipoh

Ipoh is the capital city of the Malaysian state of Perak.

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Iwataya

is a Japanese department store chain in Fukuoka Prefecture and owned by, a group company of Isetan Mitsukoshi Holdings, Ltd.

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J-pop

J-pop (often stylized as J-POP; ジェイポップ jeipoppu; an abbreviation for Japanese pop), natively also known simply as, is a musical genre that entered the musical mainstream of Japan in the 1990s.

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J.League

The (is Japan's professional football league including the first division J1 League, second division J2 League and third division J3 League. J1 League is one of the most successful leagues in Asian club football. It is currently sponsored by Meiji Yasuda Life and thus officially known as the Meiji Yasuda J.League.

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Japan

Japan (日本; Nippon or Nihon; formally 日本国 or Nihon-koku, lit. "State of Japan") is a sovereign island country in East Asia.

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Japan Meteorological Agency

The, JMA, is an agency of the Ministry of Land, Infrastructure, Transport and Tourism.

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Japan Meteorological Agency seismic intensity scale

The Japan Meteorological Agency seismic intensity scale is a seismic scale used in Japan to measure the intensity of earthquakes.

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Japan Standard Time

is the standard timezone in Japan, 9 hours ahead of UTC (i.e. it is UTC+09:00).

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Japanese festivals

Japanese festivals are traditional festive occasions.

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Jōnan-ku, Fukuoka

is one of the seven wards of Fukuoka City, Japan.

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Jirō Akagawa

is a Japanese novelist born in Fukuoka, Fukuoka Prefecture, Japan.

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Juan Luis Guerra

Juan Luis Guerra Seijas (born June 7, 1957), known professionally as Juan Luis Guerra, is a Dominican singer, songwriter, composer, and producer.

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Judo

was created as a physical, mental and moral pedagogy in Japan, in 1882, by Jigoro Kano (嘉納治五郎).

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Junior college

A junior college is a post-secondary educational institution designed to prepare students for either skilled trades or for additional education at another college with more advanced academic material.

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Junshin Junior College

is a private junior college in Fukuoka, Fukuoka, Japan.

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Kaibara Ekken

or Ekiken, also known as Atsunobu (篤信) was a Japanese Neo-Confucianist philosopher and botanist.

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Kamakura

is a city in Kanagawa Prefecture, Japan.

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Kamakura shogunate

The Kamakura shogunate (Japanese: 鎌倉幕府, Kamakura bakufu) was a Japanese feudal military governmentNussbaum, Louis-Frédéric.

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Kamikaze

, officially, were a part of the Japanese Special Attack Units of military aviators who initiated suicide attacks for the Empire of Japan against Allied naval vessels in the closing stages of the Pacific campaign of World War II, designed to destroy warships more effectively than possible with conventional air attacks.

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Kamikaze (typhoon)

The were two winds or storms that are said to have saved Japan from two Mongol fleets under Kublai Khan.

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Kanikapila

Kanikapila is a style of Hawaiian music produced in an impromptu jam session, most commonly taking place at a beach, or family gathering.

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Kanji

Kanji (漢字) are the adopted logographic Chinese characters that are used in the Japanese writing system.

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Kansai region

The or the lies in the southern-central region of Japan's main island Honshū.

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Köppen climate classification

The Köppen climate classification is one of the most widely used climate classification systems.

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Kōji Seto

is a Japanese actor and singer.

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Kōki Hirota

was a Japanese diplomat and politician who served as the 32nd Prime Minister of Japan from 9 March 1936 to 2 February 1937.

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Keihanshin

is a metropolitan region in Japan encompassing the metropolitan areas of the cities of Kyoto in Kyoto Prefecture, Osaka in Osaka Prefecture and Kobe in Hyōgo Prefecture.

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Keita Tachibana

(born on 16 December 1985), also known as Keita (stylized KEITA), is a Japanese pop and R&B singer and dancer.

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Kenji Hamada

is a male Japanese voice actor from Fukuoka, Japan who is an affiliate of Mausu Promotion.

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Kensuke Sasaki

is a Japanese retired professional wrestler, mixed martial artist, and founder of the now-defunct wrestling promotion Diamond Ring.

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Kenzo Nakamura

is a retired judoka who won a gold medal at the 1996 Summer Olympics.

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Kitakyushu

is one of two designated cities in Fukuoka Prefecture, Japan, together with Fukuoka, with a population of just under 1 million people.

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Kiyoshi Hikawa

is a Japanese enka singer who was born on September 6, 1977 in Minami-ku, Fukuoka, Japan.

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Kobe

is the sixth-largest city in Japan and the capital city of Hyōgo Prefecture.

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Kobee

Kobee (Korean: 코비, Japanese: コビー) is a South Korean jet hydrofoil ferry line that operates services between Busan, South Korea and Fukuoka, Japan.

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Kofun

are megalithic tombs or tumuli in Japan, constructed between the early 3rd century and the early 7th century AD.

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Kojiki

, also sometimes read as Furukotofumi, is the oldest extant chronicle in Japan, dating from the early 8th century (711–712) and composed by Ō no Yasumaro at the request of Empress Genmei with the purpose of sanctifying the imperial court's claims to supremacy over rival clans.

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Koran Women's Junior College

is a private junior women's college in Fukuoka, Fukuoka, Japan, established in 1958.

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Korean Peninsula

The Korean Peninsula is a peninsula of Eurasia located in East Asia.

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Kublai Khan

Kublai (Хубилай, Hubilai; Simplified Chinese: 忽必烈) was the fifth Khagan (Great Khan) of the Mongol Empire (Ikh Mongol Uls), reigning from 1260 to 1294 (although due to the division of the empire this was a nominal position).

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Kuroda Nagamasa

was a daimyō during the late Azuchi–Momoyama and early Edo periods.

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Kyoto

, officially, is the capital city of Kyoto Prefecture, located in the Kansai region of Japan.

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Kyoto University

, or is a national university in Kyoto, Japan.

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Kyuden Voltex

Kyuden Voltex is a Japanese rugby team owned by Kyushu Electric Power Co. (Kyūshū Denryoku).

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Kyushu

is the third largest island of Japan and most southwesterly of its four main islands.

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Kyushu Asahi Broadcasting

is a broadcasting station in Fukuoka, Japan, and it is affiliated with National Radio Network (NRN), All-Nippon News Network (ANN), and TV Asahi Network.

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Kyushu Electric Power

(OSE: 9508) is a Japanese energy company that provides power to 7 prefectures (Fukuoka, Nagasaki, Ōita, Saga, Miyazaki, Kumamoto, Kagoshima), and recently, to some parts of Hiroshima Prefecture.

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Kyushu Institute of Design

Kyushu Institute of Design (九州芸術工科大学; Kyūshū Geijutsu Kōka Daigaku, KID) in Fukuoka, Japan, is one of Japan's prestigious national universities and was founded in April, 1968.

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Kyushu National Museum

The opened on October 16, 2005 in Dazaifu near Fukuoka—the first new national museum in Japan in over 100 years, and the first to elevate the focus on history over art.

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Kyushu Railway Company

The, also referred to as, is one of the constituent companies of Japan Railways Group (JR Group).

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Kyushu Sangyo University

was founded in 1960 in Fukuoka City, and currently has twenty departments and six graduate schools.

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Kyushu Shinkansen

The is a Japanese high-speed railway line between the cities of Fukuoka and Kagoshima in Kyushu, running parallel to the existing Kagoshima Main Line and operated by JR Kyushu.

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Kyushu University

, abbreviated to, is a Japanese national university located in Fukuoka, in the island of Kyushu.

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Kyushu Zokei Art College

is a private junior college in Fukuoka, Fukuoka, Japan, established in 1968.

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L.League

The L.League (in Japanese: "L・リーグ", Officially "日本女子サッカーリーグ",Nihon Joshi Sakkā Rīgu) is the top flight of women's association football in Japan.

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Leeds United F.C.

Leeds United Football Club is a professional association football club in Leeds, West Yorkshire, England.

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Level5 Stadium

(formerly Hakatanomori Football Stadium, renamed on March 1, 2008 for naming rights), located in the Hakata ward of Fukuoka city is the home ground of Avispa Fukuoka association football club.

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List of metropolitan areas in Japan

This is a list of in Japan by population as defined by the Statistics Bureau of Japan (SBJ) and the Center for Spatial Information Service of the University of Tokyo.

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List of regions of Japan

The regions of Japan are not official administrative units, but have been traditionally used as the regional division of Japan in a number of contexts.

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Love FM (Japan)

Love FM is a commercial radio station based in north Kyushu island, Japan, broadcasting on 76.1 FM from the Fukuoka park side studio to the Kyushu area.

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Lovendor

Lovendor (stylized as LoVendoЯ) is a Japanese all-female rock band.

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Mark Rothko

Mark Rothko, born Markus Yakovlevich Rothkowitz (Ма́ркус Я́ковлевич Ротко́вич, Markuss Rotkovičs; September 25, 1903 – February 25, 1970), was an American painter of Russian Jewish descent.

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Martial arts

Martial arts are codified systems and traditions of combat practices, which are practiced for a number of reasons: as self-defense, military and law enforcement applications, mental and spiritual development; as well as entertainment and the preservation of a nation's intangible cultural heritage.

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Masaaki Yuasa

is an anime television and film director, screenwriter, storyboard artist and animator known for his wild, freeform style.

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Meiji period

The, also known as the Meiji era, is a Japanese era which extended from October 23, 1868, to July 30, 1912.

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Meiji Restoration

The, also known as the Meiji Ishin, Renovation, Revolution, Reform, or Renewal, was an event that restored practical imperial rule to the Empire of Japan in 1868 under Emperor Meiji.

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Mentai Rock

Mentai Rock is the name given to the collection of Japanese artists who gained national popularity during the late 1970s.

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Minami-ku, Fukuoka

is one of the seven wards of Fukuoka City, Japan.

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Misia

, commonly stylized as MISIA, is a Japanese singer, songwriter, and record producer.

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Mongol Empire

The Mongol Empire (Mongolian: Mongolyn Ezent Güren; Mongolian Cyrillic: Монголын эзэнт гүрэн;; also Орда ("Horde") in Russian chronicles) existed during the 13th and 14th centuries and was the largest contiguous land empire in history.

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Mongolia

Mongolia (Monggol Ulus in Mongolian; in Mongolian Cyrillic) is a landlocked unitary sovereign state in East Asia.

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Monocle (UK magazine)

Monocle is a global affairs and lifestyle magazine, 24-hour radio station, website, retailer and media brand, all produced by Winkontent Ltd.

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Morning Musume

, formerly simply and colloquially referred to as, is a Japanese female idol group, holding the second highest overall single sales (of a female group) on the Oricon charts as of February 2012, with the Oricon record of most top ten singles with an amount of 64, and they have sold over 21 million copies in Japan alone.

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Motsunabe

is a type of nabemono in Japanese cuisine, which is made from beef or pork tripe or other offal.

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Nagasaki

() is the capital and the largest city of Nagasaki Prefecture on the island of Kyushu in Japan.

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Nakamura Gakuen University

is a private university in Fukuoka, Fukuoka, Japan.

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Nakasu

is the red-light district which exists between the sandbank of the and the in Fukuoka City, Fukuoka Prefecture, Japan.

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Neo-Confucianism

Neo-Confucianism (often shortened to lixue 理學) is a moral, ethical, and metaphysical Chinese philosophy influenced by Confucianism, and originated with Han Yu and Li Ao (772–841) in the Tang Dynasty, and became prominent during the Song and Ming dynasties.

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Newsweek

Newsweek is an American weekly magazine founded in 1933.

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Nishi-ku, Fukuoka

is one of the seven wards of Fukuoka City, Japan.

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Nishi-Nippon Railroad

The, also called or NNR, is one of Japan's "Big 16" private railroad companies.

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Nishitetsu Tenjin Ōmuta Line

The is a railway line in Fukuoka Prefecture in Kyushu, Japan.

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Noriko Sakai

is a Japanese singer and actress.

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Oakland, California

Oakland is the largest city and the county seat of Alameda County, California, United States.

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Okayama Prefecture

is a prefecture of Japan located in the Chūgoku region on the main island of Honshu.

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Osaka

() is a designated city in the Kansai region of Japan.

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Pacific League

The or is one of the two professional baseball leagues constituting Nippon Professional Baseball in Japan.

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Paleolithic

The Paleolithic or Palaeolithic is a period in human prehistory distinguished by the original development of stone tools that covers c. 95% of human technological prehistory.

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Pollock roe

Pollock roe, also pollack roe, is the roe of Alaska pollock (Gadus chalcogrammus) which, despite its name a species of cod.

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Population density

Population density (in agriculture: standing stock and standing crop) is a measurement of population per unit area or unit volume; it is a quantity of type number density.

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Prefectures of Japan

Japan is divided into 47, forming the first level of jurisdiction and administrative division.

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Prime Minister of Japan

The is the head of government of Japan.

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Principal dancer

A principal dancer (often shortened to principal) is a dancer at the highest rank within a professional dance company, particularly a ballet company.

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Probability

Probability is the measure of the likelihood that an event will occur.

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Reina Tanaka

is a Japanese pop-rock singer and a member of the Japanese rock band Lovendor.

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Relay race

A relay race is a racing competition where members of a team take turns completing parts of racecourse or performing a certain action.

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Richter magnitude scale

The so-called Richter magnitude scale – more accurately, Richter's magnitude scale, or just Richter magnitude – for measuring the strength ("size") of earthquakes refers to the original "magnitude scale" developed by Charles F. Richter and presented in his landmark 1935 paper, and later revised and renamed the Local magnitude scale, denoted as "ML" or "ML".

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Ringo Sheena

, known by her stage name, is a Japanese singer, songwriter and musician.

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Rintaro Tokunaga

Rintaro Tokunaga (born December 29, 1987) is a Japanese professional basketball player who plays for Akita Northern Happinets of the B.League in Japan.

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Rizing Zephyr Fukuoka

The Rizing Zephyr Fukuoka are a Japanese basketball team, playing in the first division of the B.League.

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RKB Mainichi Broadcasting

is a broadcasting station in Fukuoka, Japan, and it is affiliated with Japan Radio Network (JRN), Japan News Network (JNN) and TBS Network.

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Round-Kyūshū Ekiden

The Prince Takamatsu Cup Nishinippon Round-Kyūshū Ekiden (九州一周駅伝 Kyūshū isshū ekiden) is a running race in Japan held annually from 1951 to 2013.

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Roy Lichtenstein

Roy Fox Lichtenstein (October 27, 1923 – September 29, 1997) was an American pop artist.

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Rugby union

Rugby union, commonly known in most of the world as rugby, is a contact team sport which originated in England in the first half of the 19th century.

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Ryoko Tani

is a retired Japanese female judoka and a politician.

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Ryutaro Umeno

is a Nippon Professional Baseball catcher for the Hanshin Tigers in Japan's Central League.

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Saitama Prefecture

is a prefecture of Japan located in the Kantō region.

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Salvador Dalí

Salvador Domingo Felipe Jacinto Dalí i Domènech, 1st Marquess of Dalí de Púbol (11 May 190423 January 1989), known professionally as Salvador Dalí, was a prominent Spanish surrealist born in Figueres, Catalonia, Spain.

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Samurai

were the military nobility and officer caste of medieval and early-modern Japan.

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San'yō Shinkansen

The is a line of the Japanese Shinkansen high-speed rail network, connecting Shin-Osaka in Osaka with Hakata Station in Fukuoka, the two largest cities in western Japan.

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Sawara, Fukuoka

is an area in Fukuoka-shi, Fukuoka-ken, Japan.

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Sawara-ku, Fukuoka

is one of the wards in Fukuoka-shi, Fukuoka-ken, Kyūshū, Japan.

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Sayuri

is a Japanese musician, singer and songwriter, affiliated with Yamaha Music.

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Sōichirō Takashima

is a Japanese politician and the current mayor of Fukuoka, the capital city of Fukuoka Prefecture in Kyushu region of Japan.

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Sea of Japan

The Sea of Japan (see below for other names) is a marginal sea between the Japanese archipelago, Sakhalin, the Korean Peninsula and Russia.

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Seika Women's Junior College

is a private junior women's college in Fukuoka, Fukuoka, Japan, established in 1967.

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Seinan Gakuin University

is a Christian university in Fukuoka, Japan.

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Singing

Singing is the act of producing musical sounds with the voice and augments regular speech by the use of sustained tonality, rhythm, and a variety of vocal techniques.

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Sister city

Twin towns or sister cities are a form of legal or social agreement between towns, cities, counties, oblasts, prefectures, provinces, regions, states, and even countries in geographically and politically distinct areas to promote cultural and commercial ties.

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Sky Dream Fukuoka

was a Ferris wheel which operated at Evergreen Marinoa in the city of Fukuoka, Japan, from 2001 until September 2009.

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SoftBank Capital

SoftBank Capital is a venture capital group in the United States, focusing on technology and telecom early stage businesses.

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Sonny Chiba

, also known as Sonny Chiba, is a Japanese actor, singer, film producer, film director, and martial artist.

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Sophia Fukuoka Junior and Senior High School

Sophia Fukuoka Junior and Senior High School is in Fukuoka Prefecture, Fukuoka City, Chuo-ku, Tokyo.

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South Korea

South Korea, officially the Republic of Korea (대한민국; Hanja: 大韓民國; Daehan Minguk,; lit. "The Great Country of the Han People"), is a country in East Asia, constituting the southern part of the Korean Peninsula and lying east to the Asian mainland.

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Spits (newspaper)

Spits (Peak/Rush Hour; stylized as Sp!ts) was a tabloid format newspaper freely distributed in trains, trams and buses in the Netherlands from 1999 to 2014.

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Stock exchange

A stock exchange, securities exchange or bourse, is a facility where stock brokers and traders can buy and sell securities, such as shares of stock and bonds and other financial instruments.

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Sui Ishida

is a Japanese manga artist.

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Suicide attack

A suicide attack is any violent attack in which the attacker expects their own death as a direct result of the method used to harm, damage or destroy the target.

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Sumo

or sumo wrestling is a competitive full-contact wrestling sport where a rikishi (wrestler) attempts to force another wrestler out of a circular ring (dohyō) or into touching the ground with anything other than the soles of his feet.

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Suzerainty

Suzerainty (and) is a back-formation from the late 18th-century word suzerain, meaning upper-sovereign, derived from the French sus (meaning above) + -erain (from souverain, meaning sovereign).

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Tamori

, known by his stage name (an anagram of his surname), is a Japanese television celebrity.

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Television Nishinippon Corporation

is a Japanese TV station affiliated with '''Fuji News Network''' ('''FNN''') and Fuji Network System (FNS) in Fukuoka.

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Tokugawa Ieyasu

was the founder and first shōgun of the Tokugawa shogunate of Japan, which effectively ruled Japan from the Battle of Sekigahara in 1600 until the Meiji Restoration in 1868.

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Tomo Inouye

Tomo Inouye (b. 1870) was a Japanese medical doctor, trained at the University of Michigan Medical School.

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Tonkotsu ramen

Tonkotsu ramen (豚骨ラーメン) is a ramen dish that originated in Fukuoka, Fukuoka Prefecture on the Kyushu island of Japan, and it is a specialty dish in both Fukuoka and Kyushu.

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Top League

The Top League is a rugby union competition in Japan.

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Tourism

Tourism is travel for pleasure or business; also the theory and practice of touring, the business of attracting, accommodating, and entertaining tourists, and the business of operating tours.

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Trade

Trade involves the transfer of goods or services from one person or entity to another, often in exchange for money.

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Typhoon

A typhoon is a mature tropical cyclone that develops between 180° and 100°E in the Northern Hemisphere.

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Urban Employment Area

is a definition of metropolitan areas, defined by the Center for Spatial Information Service of the University of Tokyo.

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Usa Jingū

, also known as, is a Shinto shrine in the city of Usa in Ōita Prefecture in Japan.

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Victoria Principal

Vicki Ree "Victoria" Principal (born January 3, 1950) is an American actress, entrepreneur, and author, best known for her role as Pamela Barnes Ewing on the American prime time television soap opera series Dallas that aired on the CBS network from 1978 to 1991.

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W-inds

W-inds (stylized as w-inds.) is a Japanese pop boy band that is managed by Vision Factory and has been signed to the Pony Canyon label since 2000.

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Wards of Japan

A is a subdivision of the cities of Japan that are large enough to have been designated by government ordinance.

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Wet season

The monsoon season, is the time of year when most of a region's average annual rainfall occurs.

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Yamato Province

was a province of Japan, located in Kinai, corresponding to present-day Nara Prefecture in Honshū.

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Yangon

Yangon (ရန်ကုန်မြို့, MLCTS rankun mrui,; formerly known as Rangoon, literally: "End of Strife") was the capital of the Yangon Region of Myanmar, also known as Burma.

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Yatai (food cart)

A is a small, mobile food stall in Japan typically selling ramen or other food.

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Yoshinori Kobayashi

is a Japanese manga artist noted for his controversial political commentary manga Gōmanism Sengen.

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Yosuke Ideguchi

is a Japanese professional footballer who plays as a central midfielder for Leeds United, and for the Japan national team, having previously represented Japan at Under-19 and Under-23 youth levels.

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Yui (singer)

Yui (born March 26, 1987), stylized as YUI or yui, is a Japanese singer-songwriter, multi-instrumentalist, and actress.

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Yukari Oshima

is a Japanese actress and martial artist.

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Yumeno Kyūsaku

was the pen name of the early Shōwa period Japanese author Sugiyama Taidō.

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1983 Asian Women's Volleyball Championship

The 1983 Asian Women's Volleyball Championship was the 3rd Asian Championship, which took place from November 10 to November 17, 1983, in Fukuoka, Japan.

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1995 Summer Universiade

The 1995 Summer Universiade, also known as the XVIII Summer Universiade, took place in Fukuoka, Japan.

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1997 Pan Pacific Swimming Championships

The seventh edition of the Pan Pacific Swimming Championships, a long course (50 m) event, was held in Fukuoka, Japan, from August 10–13, 1997.

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1998 FIVB Volleyball Women's World Championship

The 1998 FIVB Women's Volleyball World Championship was the thirteenth edition of the tournament, organised by the world's governing body, the FIVB.

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1999 ABC Championship

The 1999 Asian Basketball Confederation Championship for Men was the qualifying tournament for the Basketball Tournament at the 2000 Summer Olympics in Sydney, Australia.

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2001 World Aquatics Championships

right The 2001 World Aquatics Championships or the 9th FINA World Swimming Championships were held in Fukuoka, Japan between 16 July and 29 July 2001.

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2006 IAAF World Cross Country Championships

The 2006 IAAF World Cross Country Championships took place on April 1/2, 2006.

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2013–14 Grand Prix of Figure Skating Final

The 2013–14 Grand Prix of Figure Skating Final was an international figure skating competition in the 2013–14 season, held together with the ISU Junior Grand Prix Final.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fukuoka

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