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Fukuoka Prefecture
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Fukuoka Prefecture is a prefecture of Japan on Kyūshū Island. The capital is the city of Fukuoka, Fukuoka Prefecture includes the former provinces of Chikugo, Chikuzen, and Buzen. Kōra taisha, Sumiyoshi-jinja, and Hakosagi-gū are the chief Shinto shrines in the prefecture, Fukuoka Prefecture faces the sea on three sides, bordering Saga, Ōita, and Kumamoto prefectures and facing Yamaguchi Prefecture across the Kanmon Straits. Fukuoka includes the two largest cities on Kyūshū, Fukuoka and Kitakyushu, and much of Kyūshūs industry and it also includes a number of small islands near the north coast of Kyūshū. Major industries include automobiles, semiconductors, and steel, Fukuoka prefecture is where tire manufacturer Bridgestone and consumer electronics chain Best Denki were founded. According to 1 June 2013 Japanese estimates, the population in Fukuoka Prefecture reached 5,088,483 inhabitants, Fukuoka Art Museum – In Ohori Park, contains a wide selection of contemporary and other art from around the world. Fukuoka Asian Art Museum – contains art from Asia, Fukuoka City Museum – displays a broad range of items from the regions history, including a spectacular gold seal. Genko Historical Museum in Higashi Koen displays Japanese and Mongolian arms, hakata Machiya Folk Museum – Dedicated to displaying the traditional ways of life, speech, and culture of the Fukuoka region. Fukuoka Castle – a castle in Chūō-ku, Fukuoka, hakata Gion Yamakasa – Japanese festival celebrated 1–15 July. Ōhori Park – a registered Place of Scenic Beauty, HKT48 Theater – where the idol group HKT48 performs every day. LinQ – the Kyushu idol group meaning Love in Kyushu, local theater where the LinQ performs weekly on Saturday and Sunday in Tenjin Best Hall, the marathon has been held in Fukuoka since 1959 and has seen world records broken. Fukuoka Prefecture has the most designated yakuza groups among all of the prefectures, at five, the Kudo-kai, the Taishu-kai, the Fukuhaku-kai, the Dojin-kai, between 2004 and 2009, and in early 2011, Fukuoka Prefecture lead the nation in gun-related incidents. These incidents were related to the local yakuza syndicates, specifically the Kudo-kai, the Dojin-kai. Fukuoka Prefecture has had the highest frequency of youth crime among the prefectures of Japan since 2003, the most popular place for tourism is Fukuoka City, especially at the time of the Dontaku festival, and Dazaifu, although Kitakyūshū has tried to attract tourists
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Fukuoka
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Fukuoka is the capital city of Fukuoka Prefecture, situated on the northern shore of the Japanese island of Kyushu. It is the most populous city on the island, followed by Kitakyushu and it is the largest city and metropolitan area west of Keihanshin. The city was designated on April 1,1972, by government ordinance, Greater Fukuoka, with 2.5 million people, is part of the heavily industrialized Fukuoka–Kitakyushu zone as well as Northern Kyushu. As of 2015, Fukuoka is Japan’s fifth largest city, having passed the population of Kobe, as of July 2011, Fukuoka passed the population of Kyoto. Since the founding of Kyoto in 794, this marks the first time that a city west of the Kinki region has a population than Kyoto. In ancient times, however, the area near Fukuoka, the Chikushi region, was thought by historians to have possibly been even more influential than the Yamato region. Exchanges from the continent and the Northern Kyushu area date as far back as Old Stone Age and it has been thought that waves of immigrants arrived in Northern Kyushu from mainland Asia. Fukuoka was sometimes called the Port of Dazaifu, Dazaifu was an administrative capital in 663 A. D. but a historian proposed that a prehistoric capital was in the area. Ancient texts, such as the Kojiki, Kanyen and archaeology confirm this was a critical place in the founding of Japan. Some scholars claim that it was the first place outsiders and the Imperial Family set foot, Fukuoka is sometimes still referred to as Hakata, the central ward of the city. In 923, the Hakozaki-gū in Fukuoka was transferred from Daibu-gū in Daibu the origin of Usa Shrine, in Ooho, there are remains of a big ward office with a temple, because in ancient East Asia, an emperor must have three great ministries. In fact, there is a record in Chinese literature that a king of Japan sent a letter in 478 to ask the Chinese emperors approval for employing three ministries, in addition, remains of the Korokan were found in Fukuoka underneath a part of the ruins of Fukuoka Castle. Kublai Khan of the Mongol Empire turned his attention towards Japan starting in 1268, Kublai Khan first sent an envoy to Japan to make the Shogunate acknowledge Khans suzerainty. Mongolia repeatedly sent envoys thereafter, each time urging the Shogunate to accept their proposal, in 1274, Kublai Khan mounted an invasion of the northern part of Kyushu with a fleet of 900 ships and 33,000 troops, including troops from Goryeo on the Korean Peninsula. This initial invasion was compromised by a combination of incompetence and severe storms, after the invasion attempt of 1274, Japanese samurai built a stone barrier 20 km in length bordering the coast of Hakata Bay in what is now the city of Fukuoka. The wall, 2–3 metres in height and having a width of 3 metres, was constructed between 1276 and 1277, and was excavated in the 1930s. Kublai sent another envoy to Japan in 1279, at that time, Hōjō Tokimune of the Hōjō clan was the Eighth Regent. Not only did he decline the offer, but he beheaded the five Mongolian emissaries after summoning them to Kamakura, infuriated, Kublai organized another attack on Fukuoka Prefecture in 1281, mobilizing 140,000 soldiers and 4,000 ships
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Japan
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Japan is a sovereign island nation in Eastern Asia. Located in the Pacific Ocean, it lies off the eastern coast of the Asia Mainland and stretches from the Sea of Okhotsk in the north to the East China Sea, the kanji that make up Japans name mean sun origin. 日 can be read as ni and means sun while 本 can be read as hon, or pon, Japan is often referred to by the famous epithet Land of the Rising Sun in reference to its Japanese name. Japan is an archipelago consisting of about 6,852 islands. The four largest are Honshu, Hokkaido, Kyushu and Shikoku, the country is divided into 47 prefectures in eight regions. Hokkaido being the northernmost prefecture and Okinawa being the southernmost one, the population of 127 million is the worlds tenth largest. Japanese people make up 98. 5% of Japans total population, approximately 9.1 million people live in the city of Tokyo, the capital of Japan. Archaeological research indicates that Japan was inhabited as early as the Upper Paleolithic period, the first written mention of Japan is in Chinese history texts from the 1st century AD. Influence from other regions, mainly China, followed by periods of isolation, from the 12th century until 1868, Japan was ruled by successive feudal military shoguns who ruled in the name of the Emperor. Japan entered into a period of isolation in the early 17th century. The Second Sino-Japanese War of 1937 expanded into part of World War II in 1941, which came to an end in 1945 following the bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. Japan is a member of the UN, the OECD, the G7, the G8, the country has the worlds third-largest economy by nominal GDP and the worlds fourth-largest economy by purchasing power parity. It is also the worlds fourth-largest exporter and fourth-largest importer, although Japan has officially renounced its right to declare war, it maintains a modern military with the worlds eighth-largest military budget, used for self-defense and peacekeeping roles. Japan is a country with a very high standard of living. Its population enjoys the highest life expectancy and the third lowest infant mortality rate in the world, in ancient China, Japan was called Wo 倭. It was mentioned in the third century Chinese historical text Records of the Three Kingdoms in the section for the Wei kingdom, Wa became disliked because it has the connotation of the character 矮, meaning dwarf. The 倭 kanji has been replaced with the homophone Wa, meaning harmony, the Japanese word for Japan is 日本, which is pronounced Nippon or Nihon and literally means the origin of the sun. The earliest record of the name Nihon appears in the Chinese historical records of the Tang dynasty, at the start of the seventh century, a delegation from Japan introduced their country as Nihon
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Fish market
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For the Sydney station, see Fish Market tram stop. A fish market is a marketplace for selling fish products and it can be dedicated to wholesale trade between fishermen and fish merchants, or to the sale of seafood to individual consumers, or to both. Retail fish markets, a type of wet market, often sell street food as well. Fish markets range in size from small stalls, such as the one in the photo at the right, to the great Tsukiji fish market in Tokyo. The term fish market can refer to the process of fish marketing in general. Fish markets were known in antiquity and they served as a public space where large numbers of people could gather and discuss current events and local politics. Because seafood is quick to spoil, fish markets are historically most often found in seaside towns, once ice or other simple cooling methods became available, some were also established in large inland cities that had good trade routes to the coast. Since refrigeration and rapid transport became available in the 19th and 20th century, consequently, most major fish markets now mainly deal with wholesale trade, and the existing major fish retail markets continue to operate as much for traditional reasons as for commercial ones. Both types of markets are often tourist attractions as well. The following is an incomplete list of fish markets. Tsukiji fish market, Tokyo, Japan, the worlds largest fish market, la Nueva Viga Market, Mexico City, Mexico, the worlds second largest fish market. Marketing from 250,000 up to 550,000 tons of seafood a year. C, bestor TC Tsukiji, the fish market at the center of the world In PE Lilienthal, California studies, Volume 11, University of California Press, ISBN 978-0-520-22024-9. Le Blanch J The Global fish market and the need for multilateral fishing disciplines In, Leonard B Overfishing, A Global Challenge, Diane Publishing, la Nueva Viga, paseo marino en el DF fuera de las guías turísticas. A Fishmongers Guide to Greatness Berrett-koehler Series, Berrett-Koehler Publishers, ISBN 978-1-57675-323-1, graddy K The Fulton fish market Journal of Economic Perspectives,20, 207–220. Kirman, Alan P. and Vriend, Nicolaas J. Learning to be loyal, in, Domenico Delli Gatti, Mauro Gallegati, Alan P. Kirman, Interaction and market structure, essays on heterogeneity in economics, Volume 484. Maniatis GC The Organizational Setup and Functioning of the Fish Market in Tenth-Century Constantinople Dumbarton Oaks Papers,54, porcù Leide Fishy business, Humor in a Sardinian fish market International Journal of Humor Research,18, 69–102. Doi,10. 1515/humr.2005.18.1.69 Sophie S and Håkan H Behind the fish market facade The IMP Journal,3, 50-74. Sancar Seckiners new book DZ Uzerine Notlar, published Dec.2014, a film clip of a fish market in New York in 1903 is available at the Internet Archive Fish out of water, A guide to city fishmongers New York Magazine,10 April 1978
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The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints
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The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints is a Christian restorationist church that is considered by its members to be the restoration of the original church founded by Jesus Christ. The church is headquartered in Salt Lake City, Utah, and has established congregations, according to the church, it has over 70,000 missionaries and a membership of over 15 million. It is ranked by the National Council of Churches as the fourth-largest Christian denomination in the United States and it is the largest denomination in the Latter Day Saint movement founded by Joseph Smith during the period of religious revival known as the Second Great Awakening. Adherents, often referred to as Latter-day Saints, or, less formally, Mormons, view faith in Jesus Christ and his atonement as fundamental principles of their religion. The church has a canon which includes four scriptural texts, the Bible, the Book of Mormon, the Doctrine and Covenants. The current president is Thomas S. Monson, individual members of the church believe that they can also receive personal revelation from God in conducting their lives. The president heads a hierarchical structure with various levels reaching down to local congregations, Bishops, drawn from the laity, lead local congregations. Male members, after reaching age 12, may be ordained to the priesthood, Women do not hold positions within the priesthood, but do occupy leadership roles in some church auxiliary organizations. Both men and women may serve as missionaries, and the church maintains a large missionary program which proselytizes, faithful members adhere to church laws of sexual purity, health, fasting, and Sabbath observance, and contribute ten percent of their income to the church in tithing. The LDS Church was formally organized by Joseph Smith on April 6,1830, Smith intended to establish the New Jerusalem in North America, called Zion. In 1831, the moved to Kirtland, Ohio, and began establishing an outpost in Jackson County, Missouri. However, in 1833, Missouri settlers brutally expelled the Latter Day Saints from Jackson County, the Kirtland era ended in 1838, after a financial scandal rocked the church and caused widespread defections. Smith regrouped with the church in Far West, Missouri. Believing the Saints to be in insurrection, the Missouri governor ordered that the Saints be exterminated or driven from the State, in 1839, the Saints converted a swampland on the banks of the Mississippi River into Nauvoo, Illinois, which became the churchs new headquarters. Nauvoo grew rapidly as missionaries sent to Europe and elsewhere gained new converts who then flooded into Nauvoo, meanwhile, Smith introduced polygamy to his closest associates. He also established ceremonies, which he stated the Lord had revealed to him, to allow people to become gods in the afterlife. He also introduced the church to an accounting of his First Vision. This vision would come to be regarded by the LDS Church as the most important event in history since the resurrection of Jesus
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Higashi-ku, Fukuoka
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Higashi-ku is one of the seven wards of Fukuoka City in Japan. As of 1 March 2012, it has a population of 296,576, with 136,133 households and its name literally means east ward. It is south of neighbouring Shingū, Fukuoka, the Shikanoshima Island is connected to Umi no Nakamichi by a bridge. The annual Fukuoka International Cross Country meeting takes place in this ward, Maidashi Kyushu University - Maidashi campus, Hakozaki campus Fukuoka Institute of Technology The ward has a North Korean school, Fukuoka Korean Elementary School. There are approximately 400 public parks in Higashi-ku, one of these is Maidashi Park in Maidashi district. Set in Fukuokas greenbelt, the park was built on land occupied by the Nishitetsu Miyajidake Line. Island City, Fukuoka Island Tower Sky Club Marine World Uminonakamichi Shinto Hakozaki Shrine Kashii-gū Coca-Cola Red Sparks Official website
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Hakata-ku, Fukuoka
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Hakata-ku is a ward of the city of Fukuoka in Fukuoka Prefecture, Japan. Many of Fukuoka Prefecture and Fukuoka Citys principal government, commercial, retail, Hakata-ku is also the location of Fukuokas main train station, Hakata Station, Fukuoka Airport and the Hakata Port international passenger ship terminal. Hakata-ku is a ward of Fukuoka City located on its eastern edge and it is 31.47 km2 with a population of 206,629. Much of the consists of low-lying plains beside the Mikasa River. The northwestern end of the ward faces Hakata Bay, which includes both ferry and international cruise ship terminals Hakata Harbor, the northeast end of the ward is slightly elevated, and is named Higashihirao, with nearby Fukuoka Airport. Around Hakata Station is downtown, Nakasu is the main dining, Hakata-ku also houses the Fukuoka Prefectural office. Many Japanese companies have established offices in Hakata-ku due to its ease of access to local government offices as well transportation hubs such as Hakata Station. The headquarters of JR Kyūshū, Best Denki, and many companies are in the ward. Air Next, a subsidiary of All Nippon Airways, is headquartered on the grounds of Fukuoka Airport in Hakata-ku, link Airs has its headquarters in the Fukuoka Gion Daiichi Seimei Building in Hakata-ku. Cisco has an Asia-Pacific sales office on the 12th floor of the Fukuoka Gion Daiichi Seimei Building, prior to its dissolution, Harlequin Air was headquartered on the grounds of the airport in Hakata-ku. Hakatas economy was transformed in 1996 with the opening of Canal City Hakata. From the early 2010s Hakata became the beneficiary of significant growth in cruise ship tourism, in 2014,91 cruise ships travelled from China called at Hakata. In 2015,245 cruise ship calls were made at Hakata Port, after expansion and redevelopment of the port facilities, the number of cruise ship port calls in 2016 is expected to exceed 400. As of 2015, the largest passenger vessel making regular port calls at Hakata is the Royal Caribbean International owned MS Quantum of the Seas, partly as a result of growing international tourism, in 2015 Fukuoka reported the fastest rising tax revenues and population in Japan. Hakata is one of the oldest cities in Japan, in the Middle Ages Hakata, which faces onto the Genkai-Nada Channel dividing Japan from Korea, was a base for merchants who traded with China and Korea, and the city housed Japans first Chinatown. Taira no Kiyomori is said to have built the artificial harbor Sode-no-minato to increase commerce, Hakata was burned down by many wars, including the Mongol invasions. In the early Edo period, Kuroda Nagamasa, appointed the lord of Chikuzen Province, Kuroda Nagamasa changed the name of the area to Fukuoka after his home town, Fukuoka in Okayama Prefecture. He ordered Tachibana Castle and Najima Castle dismantled, and had Fukuoka Castle built using the stones from older castles
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Nishi-ku, Fukuoka
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Nishi-ku is one of the seven wards of Fukuoka City, Japan. Meaning literally west ward, it is bordered to the east by Sawara-ku, as of 2003, it has a population of 173,813 people and an area of 83.81 km2. It has recently gained additional infrastructure in the form of the Nanakuma Line, in addition to the Fukuoka City Subway, at the time of Fukuoka Citys official designation as a City in 1972, Nishi-ku covered an area larger than it does today. On May 1,1982, Nishi-ku was subdivided into the three wards of Nishi-ku, Sawara-ku and Jōnan-ku. Sky Dream Fukuoka Media related to Nishi-ku, Fukuoka at Wikimedia Commons
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