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Prize-winning Fukuoka dance team puts Kurume on YouTube radar

National Sep 12, 2018

Prize-winning Fukuoka dance team puts Kurume on YouTube radar

The Kurume Municipal Government in Fukuoka Prefecture has released a YouTube video featuring Kyushudanji Shinsengumi, a local boys' dance group that won first place at World of Dance 2015 in Los Angeles, to promote the city. The video, which shows the group in action at ...

Germans at Kurume 'getting arrogant'; Throne Assistance body meets; hope abandoned for 208 missing fishermen; Kaifu congratulates unified Germany

National / History | JAPAN TIMES GONE BY Oct 3, 2015

Germans at Kurume 'getting arrogant'; Throne Assistance body meets; hope abandoned for 208 missing fishermen; Kaifu congratulates unified Germany

by Edan Corkill

100 YEARS AGO Thursday, Oct. 7, 1915 Germans at Kurume 'getting arrogant' According to a message from Kurume, Fukuoka Prefecture, some 700 German prisoners of war currently held at Kurume detention camp are becoming insolent. They refused to respond when the usual roll was called and burst ...