Pioneering organic farmer Masanobu Fukuoka, author of The One-Straw Revolution, developed his methods here on his family's farm.

This technique has been famously used by Sepp Holzer, Toby Hemenway, and Masanobu Fukuoka.

Other early influences include Ruth Stout and Esther Deans, who pioneered " no-dig gardening methods ", and Masanobu Fukuoka who, in the late 1930s in Japan, began advocating no-till orchards, gardens and natural farming.

Masanobu Fukuoka died on 16 August 2008 at the age of 95, after a period of confinement in bed and in a wheelchair.

* Greening The Desert: Applying natural farming techniques in Africa, interview with Masanobu Fukuoka ( retrieved 30 November 2010 )

* Masanobu Fukuoka and Natural Farming, Gandhi Foundation ( retrieved 4 December 2010 )

* Masanobu Fukuoka: Japanese Organic Farmer, Mother Earth News magazine ( retrieved 4 December 2010 )

* Farmer Philosopher Masanobu Fukuoka, part 1, 2, 3 ; Japan Economic Forum ( retrieved 9 April 2011 )

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Masanobu Fukuoka as part of his early experiments on his family farm in Japan experimented with no-pruning methods, noting that he ended up killing many fruit trees by simply letting them go which resulted in convoluted and tangled, and thus unhealthy, branch patterns.

Masanobu Fukuoka started his pioneering research work in this domain in 1938, and began publishing in the 1970s his Fukuokan philosophy of " Do Nothing Farming ", which is now acknowledged by some as the tap root of the Permaculture movement.

* Masanobu Fukuoka

Other cities experimenting with such maps are Fukuoka, Guadalajara and Monterrey.

* Fukuoka Marathon is held on first Sunday in December.

In May she arrived at Asakura Palace in the north part of Tsukushi province in Kyūshū, today a part of Fukuoka prefecture.

* The service between Busan, South Korea and Fukuoka, Japan is operated by the two companies.

** Kyūshū Yūsen operates the route between Fukuoka, Iki, and the two ports of Tsushima.

Fukuoka, Kobe, Kyoto, Nagoya, Osaka, Sapporo, Sendai, Tokyo, and Yokohama have subway systems.

The main domestic hub is Tokyo International Airport ( Haneda Airport ), Asia's busiest airport and the world's 4th busiest airport ; other major traffic hubs include Osaka International Airport, New Chitose Airport outside Sapporo, and Fukuoka Airport.

Heavy industry is concentrated in the north around Fukuoka, Kitakyushu, Nagasaki, and Oita and includes chemicals, automobiles, semiconductors, and metal processing.

* Fukuoka in Japan, a city of 1. 4 million people, formerly the twin cities of Hakata and Fukuoka until the late 19th century.

* January 18 – The Mitsui Miike coal mine explosion at Ōmuta, Fukuoka, Japan kills 83.

** The Nishitetsu Lions baseball club, part of the NPB's Pacific League, is sold to the Fukuoka Baseball Corporation, a subsidiary of Nishi-Nippon Railroad.

** Japan Airlines Flight 351, carrying 131 passengers and 7 crew from Tokyo to Fukuoka, is hijacked by Japanese Red Army members.

** A coal mine explosion in Fukuoka, Japan kills 237.

* In Japan, a 20 kilometer stone wall defending the coast of Hakata Bay in Fukuoka is completed ; it is built in response to the attempted invasion by the Yuan Dynasty in 1274.

* 1277 – In Japan, a 20 kilometer stone wall defending the coast of Hakata Bay in Fukuoka is completed ; it is built in response to the attempted invasion by the Yuan Dynasty in 1274.

Hakata ramen originates from Hakata district of Fukuoka city in Kyushu.

The 1896 Summer Olympics saw the birth of the modern marathon and the event led to the growth of road running competitions through annual events such as the Boston Marathon ( first held in 1897 ) and the Lake Biwa Marathon and Fukuoka Marathons, which were established in the 1940s.

Fukuoka Prefecture | Fukuoka, the northernmost part of the island, has the largest number of # Designated boryokudan | designated syndicates among all of the prefectures.

In the 1980s in Fukuoka, a yakuza war spiraled out of control and civilians were hurt.

The world's longest firework waterfall was the ' Niagara Falls ', which measured 3, 517. 23 m ( 11, 539 ft 5 in ) when ignited on August 23, 2008 at the Ariake Seas Fireworks Festival, Fukuoka, Japan.