The ambitious TheaterWorks project premiered in Tokyo on September 9 and will tour Osaka and Fukuoka.
This was the second time Japan had hosted the festival, the first being in Fukuoka in 2002.
"The Japanese voter acts on sentiment when it comes to somebody's illness or death, " says Fukuoka Masayuki, a popular political commentator.
He is the only person to win six gold medals at a single world championship, at the 2001 World Championships in Fukuoka, Japan.
Two months after that, she followed up by winning her eighth straight title in her class at the International Women's Judo Championship in Fukuoka.
Many foreigners asked about the well-being of their Japanese friends, even if their friends were based in Okinawa or Fukuoka, several hundreds of miles from the dangerous quake zone.
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Shoppers could spend a fortune on the finest shade-grown green tea from Fukuoka and seasonally-themed wagashi (traditional Japanese sweets), or simply roam the maze of shops for a feast of the visual variety.
The heir-apparent Kim Jong Un has Japanese ties: his mother, Ko Young-hee, was born into an ethnic Korean family in Osaka, one of several Japanese cities with Korean minorities (others are Kobe, Kyoto, Fukuoka).
At a press conference in Fukuoka, Japan, aid group officials said they had received a call from one of their members saying that Ito's body had been found and that he had been shot.
Nowadays, however, the Soka Gakkai realises that it went too far in 1991 when it allowed 300 of its young zealots to storm a temple in Fukuoka and beat up a worshipper and a priest who had criticised the group.
In a statement made Tuesday, Sony spokesman Satoshi Fukuoka said the company was planning to revive its online gaming network by the end of this month, and confirmed that personal data from 24.6 million user accounts had been stolen in a hacker attack last month.
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