In 1903 a training center for bamboo workers was established and present-day visitors to Beppu can enjoy learning about the history of bamboo, and hands-on classes at the Beppu City Traditional Bamboo Crafts Center.

APU was made possible through the collaboration of three parties from the public and private sectors: Ōita Prefecture, Beppu City and the Ritsumeikan Academy.

In the early 1990s the concept of creating an international university in the City of Beppu was first raised by the Governor of Ōita Prefecture, Mr Morihiko Hiramatsu with the then Chancellor of the Ritsumeikan Trust in Kyoto, Mr Kawamoto.

Beppu Tower was built in two years, from 1956 to 57 and was originally planned to open the Beppu Tourism Exhibition, held from March 20 through May 20, 1957.

Its original name was until 1961 when it was officially changed to Beppu Tower.

In June 2006, Beppu was crowned the Japanese national champion in both the time trial and the road race.

On 23 November 2009, it was announced Beppu had signed to ride with for the 2010 season.

In October 2011, it was announced that Beppu would ride for the new Australian based team.

From 2005 to 2006, all municipalities but Beppu, Tsukumi, Himeshima, Hiji, and all towns in Kusu District, merged, and the total municipalities went down from 58 on December 31, 2004, to 18 after the creation of the city of Kunisaki by merging with 4 towns from Higashikunisaki District on March 31, 2006.

Beppu offers a wide range of cultural experiences, from an annual international music festival, to the unabashed Hihokan Sex Museum, which nevertheless must follow the law and suspend a glass plate above ancient art with frosted areas censoring the overlarge genital depictions.

The elaborate public aquarium " Umi-tamago " on the shoreline outside Beppu features basketballing sea otters, performing archer fish, and puzzle-solving octopuses, along with more naturalistic displays of freshwater and marine fish from around the world.

Beppu is a busy passenger port with regular ferry links through the inland sea to Osaka and several other destinations.

The city of Beppu has sister city relationships with the following locations.

In Japan, links have been established with Nagasaki University of Foreign Studies, Aichi Shukutoku University, Tokyo Seitoku University, Kochi University, Sacred Heart University, and Beppu University.

The college maintains international exchange ties with three institutions: Russia's Novosibirsk Conservatory, Australia's University of Tasmania, and Japan's Beppu University.

Beppu turned professional with in 2005, and stayed with them until 2007.

Later it became clear that Beppu still had one year left on his contract with Skil-Shimano, so he had to buy himself out of the contract.

James Dickey opened his 1965 poem " The Firebombing ," about a nighttime air raid on the Japanese town of Beppu, with this epigraph from Eich's work:

* international masters of material flow management, together with Ritsumeikan Asia Pacific University in ( Beppu, Japan ).

During the Edo period ( 1600 – 1868 ) Beppu thrived as a tourist town and bamboo baskets and goods were used in the daily lives of the local people for everything from cooking to washing in order to meet the demands of the thriving tourist population.

Other contemporary tower design philosophies were often less ornate, ranging from straight-edged steel lattice structures like the Osaka Tower and Beppu Tower in Japan, to the mixed heritage of European concrete towers like the very-visible Fernsehturm Berlin or the Fernmeldeturm Kühkopf.

* April 1, 1889-Due to the municipal status enforcement, the villages of Akagō, Akiyoshi, Ayagi, Beppu, Higashiatsu, Isa, Iwanaga, Kyōwa, Managata, Nishiatsu, Ōda, Ofuku, Ōmine, were formed.

The most famous of these are in Beppu, on the east shore, and around Mt.

Besides the volcanic area of the south, there are significant mud hot springs in the northern part of the island, around Beppu.

Native DJs such as Ryota Nozaki ( Jazztronik ), the two brothers Okino Shuya and Okino Yoshihiro of Kyoto Jazz Massive, Toshio Matsuura ( former member of the United Future Organization ) and DJ Shundai Matsuo creator of the popular monthly DJ event, Creole in Beppu, Japan as well as nu-jazz artists, Sleepwalker, GrooveLine, and Soil & " Pimp " Sessions have brought great change to the traditional notions of jazz in Japan.

As governor Matsukata instituted a number of reforms including road building, starting the port of Beppu, and building a successful orphanage.

The prefecture's major water sources are Yamakuni River, Yakkan River, Ōita River, Ōno and Banjō River, and Beppu Bay and the Bungo Channel.

Ōita has a 759 kilometer coastline that has shoals in the north, Beppu Bay in the center, and a jagged or sawtooth " rias coastline " in the south.

This is contributed to the fact that Ritsumeikan Asia-Pacific University ( APU ) in Beppu accepts many foreign students.

The bamboo items soon became a souvenir that tourists purchased to take home and this solidified making Beppu a center for Bamboo crafts production.

Other works of his can be found throughout the prefecture including B-con Plaza in Beppu, Bungo-No-Kuni Information Library, the Audio-Visual Center in Oita City, and Yufu Train Station.

The Martha Argerich music festival " Argerich's Meeting Point in Beppu " is an annual event held in Beppu City.

This international event welcomes music lovers from all over the world to Beppu.

Ōita Prefecture is famous for its hot springs, particularly those in and around the city of Beppu, known as the ' hells ', or jigoku.

A tengu mikoshi ( portable shrine ) in the city of Beppu, Ōita | Beppu, Ōita Prefecture, on Kyūshū.

The accounts of his subordinates claim either that he uprighted himself and committed seppuku after his injury, or that he requested that the comrade Beppu Shinsuke assist his suicide.

is a city located in Ōita Prefecture on the island of Kyushu, Japan, at the west end of Beppu Bay.

Beppu is a tourist town sandwiched between the sea and the mountains.

Once the door was open, they crowded him inside the dark building.

In the midst of this crowded region was the Allen African Methodist Episcopal Church.

`` P. J. '' -- as Ludie called the town -- was crowded with summer people who came to the mountains to escape the heat in the big cities.

Mostly the scene was crowded with mourners, such as the dramatic Dell'Arca Lamentation in Bologna, where the grief-stricken spectators had usurped Mary's last poignant moment.

The desk before him was in no better repair than the rest of the furniture crowded into the room, including wooden file cabinets with some of their pulls yanked off and a wardrobe stained with the roof seepage of countless seasons.

In the next moment, it seemed, the infield was crowded with spectators, ballplayers, cops, kids and a dog.

Helva's class was doing Fine Arts, a selective subject in her crowded program.

Due to the crowded nature of Rome at the time, Octavius was taken to his father's home village at Velletri to be raised.

The prefabricated wooden huts were still being erected, and initially the entire " shooting party " was crowded into the mansion, its stables and cottages.

The Tonnant, its decks crowded with 1, 600 survivors from other French vessels, surrendered as the British ships approached while Timoléon was set on fire by her remaining crew who then escaped to the shore in small boats.

The bequest of a collection of books, engraved gems, coins, prints and drawings by Clayton Mordaunt Cracherode in 1800 did much to raise the Museum's reputation ; but Montagu House became increasingly crowded and decrepit and it was apparent that it would be unable to cope with further expansion.

Next to the stage was a bar, at which people crowded, ordering daiquiris and beer, all free .” A sign at the event read: Bacardí rum welcomes the author of The Old Man and the Sea.

Population density figures conceal a great disparity between the republic's most crowded island, Nzwani, which had a density of 470 persons per square kilometer in 1991 ; Ngazidja, which had a density of 250 persons per square kilometer in 1991 ; and Mwali, where the 1991 population density figure was 120 persons per square kilometer.

Shortstop Ray Chapman, who often crowded the plate, was batting against Carl Mays, who had an unusual underhand delivery.

He later recalled that his first impressions of Chicago were that of grimy neighborhoods, crowded streets, and disappointing architecture, yet he was determined to find work.

His draw was such that some facilities were " crowded to suffocation "; an example was his hugely popular London Reception Speech, which Douglass delivered at Alexander Fletcher's Finsbury Chapel in May 1846.

These colonies were extremely crowded and dense, with some estimates stating that there was a nesting auk for every of land.

The crowded 6: 09 a. m. Sydney-bound commuter train from Mount Victoria, in the Blue Mountains, was approaching Granville railway station when it left the rails at approximately 8: 10 a. m. and hit a row of supports of the overhead Bold Street bridge, constructed from steel and concrete.

He was a great showman, theatrical in appearance, with his sharp jaw and shock of white hair, and people always crowded into his courtroom, knowing there would be something going on.

He was a pioneer in studies of modern high design and was dedicated to providing better living conditions for the residents of crowded cities.

The sacrificial feast followed, after which the Luperci cut thongs from the skins of the victims, which were called februa, dressed themselves in the skins of the sacrificed goats, in imitation of Lupercus, and ran round the walls of the old Palatine city, the line of which was marked with stones, with the thongs in their hands in two bands, striking the people who crowded near.

This created a new ' proletariat ' which, due to being crowded together in the cities, was much more likely to protest and go on strike than the peasantry had been in previous times.

According to the law, no passenger would be required to move or give up his seat and stand if the bus was crowded and no other seats were available.