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Welcome
to FukuokaHistory.com - a website about the history of Fukuoka, one of
Japan's most fascinating and ancient cities. When cultural fashions
and artefacts arrived in Japan, they almost invariably arrived here first
.... tea, noodles, Zen, money... Fukuoka's merchants and citizens welcomed
them all.
However,
compared to Honshu, it has also been sadly neglected up until now by tourist
guides, history books and even on the web.
So this is an attempt to plug that gap. The story of Fukuoka is the story
of Japan's relationship with Asia. Hopefully we'll have something here
for everyone from the general reader to the scholar. There are articles
on numerous subjects from the tea ceremony and pottery to commerce and
coal mining. We are also attempting to provide the first ever complete
bibliography of books on the area.
- Essays from 0 to 2000 A.D. and from tea and pottery to linguistics and philosophy.
- Bibliographies of all the books published about the area.
- A comprehensive links page.
- Frequently Asked Questions about Fukuoka.
FukuokaHistory.com is still in its infancy. It has the potential to expand in many directions. How it develops depends to a large extent on readers' contributions. For example, we could add a sections on writers, mythology or photography. We could hopefully expand to include articles in Japanese. So please send in articles, extracts, sources and photos and the site can grow quickly.
We have an extract from Thomas D. Conlan's excellent book on the Mongol Invasions;
In Little Need of Divine Intervention.
Robert Borgen explains why Dazaifu is famous today - the death and subsequent deification of the 9th century scholar Sugawara no Michizane.
Wes Injerd's site deals with the plight of P.O.W.s incarcerated in Fukuoka prison camps during World War Two.
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