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.

Fukuoka was born on 2 February 1913 in Iyo, Ehime, Japan, the second son of Kameichi Fukuoka, an educated and wealthy land owner and local leader.

During his first journey overseas, Fukuoka was accompanied by his wife Ayako, met macrobiotic diet leaders Michio Kushi and Herman Aihara, and was guided by his leading supporter and translation editor Larry Korn.

Fukuoka saw farming not just as a means of producing food but as an aesthetic and spiritual approach to life, the ultimate goal of which was " the cultivation and perfection of human beings ".

In 1998, Fukuoka received a grant of US $ 10, 000 from the Rockefeller Brothers Fund but the grant was returned because his advanced age prevented him from completing the project.

Fukuoka estimated these to be 10 % while others, such as Yoshikazu Kawaguchi, have found lead to crop failures and require many years of adaption to make the principles work leading to the criticism that the " do-nothing " technique was a " grow-nothing " technique.

Fukuoka's farm in Shikoku was taken over by his son and daughter-in-law in the late 1980s, as Fukuoka reached an advanced age and his grandson also took up farming.

The Tōkaidō Line's rapid success prompted an extension westward to Hiroshima and Fukuoka ( the Sanyō Shinkansen ), which was completed in 1975.

" Yuri's language was moderated by his colleague Fukuoka Takachika in February to be " less alarming ," and Kido Takayoshi prepared the final form of the Oath, employing " language broad enough to embrace both readings.

The last two great kofun are the Imashirozuka kofun ( length: 190m ) of Osaka, which is believed by current scholars to be the tomb of Emperor Keitai, and the Iwatoyama kofun ( length: 135m ) of Fukuoka which was recorded in Fudoki of Chikugo to be the tomb of Iwai, the political archrival of Keitai.

To defend the Japanese Archipelago, a military base was constructed in Dazaifu, Fukuoka of Kyushu.

Hirota was born in what is now part of Chūō-ku, Fukuoka city, Fukuoka Prefecture.

Her farming methods were inspired by Masanobu Fukuoka after reading his book ; " The One-Straw Revolution " in 1977 after it was first translated into English.

Later, Antoku was enshrined at the Kurume-Suitengū in Kurume, Fukuoka, and he came to be worshipped as Mizu-no-kami ( 水の神, lit.

He also managed the Fukuoka Daiei / Fukuoka SoftBank Hawks from 1995 to 2008 and he was the manager of the Japanese national team in the inaugural World Baseball Classic.

Ishii was born in Fukuoka City, Fukuoka Prefecture, and is a graduate of Fukuoka Prefectural Fukuoka High School and Nihon University College of Art.

Kyushu Institute of Design ( 九州芸術工科大学 ; Kyūshū Geijutsu Kōka Daigaku, KID ) in Fukuoka, Japan is one of Japan's prestigious national universities and was founded in April, 1968.

The Fukuoka Prefectural government decided to name the combined city Fukuoka, though the population of Hakata was 25, 677 and Fukuoka was 20, 410.

* April 9, 1972: The town of Fukuoka gains city status and is renamed Kamifukuoka.

* 1946: Fukuoka College of Economics renamed

* 1956: Fukuoka University renamed

Recognising the Fukuoka Marathon's increasingly international nature, the event was renamed in 1966 to the.

* Fukuoka Marathon is held on first Sunday in December.

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

From 1938, Fukuoka began to practise and experiment with new techniques on organic citrus orchards and used the observations gained to develop the idea of " 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.

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.

Japan has six main regional passenger railway companies, known collectively as Japan Railways Group or simply as JR. Four JR companies operate the " bullet trains " on very fast and frequent Shinkansen lines that link all the larger cities, including Tokyo, Yokohama, Nagoya, Kyoto, Osaka, Hiroshima, Fukuoka and many more.

In the end, the Seibu Lions finished in second place, defeated Nippon-Ham 2 games to 1, went on to take 3 of 5 games in Fukuoka against the Daiei Hawks and then defeated the Chunichi Dragons in the Japan Series, 4 games to 3, capping off their grueling playoff drive with a well-earned championship.

Fukuoka Prefecture faces the sea on three sides, bordering on Saga, Ōita, and Kumamoto prefectures and facing Yamaguchi Prefecture across the Kanmon Straits.

Fukuoka includes the two largest cities on Kyūshū, Fukuoka and Kitakyushu, and much of Kyūshū's industry.

JR West is now listed on the Tokyo Stock Exchange, Nagoya Stock Exchange, Osaka Securities Exchange and the Fukuoka Stock Exchange.

While NTT is listed on Tokyo, Osaka, Nagoya, Fukuoka, Sapporo, New York, and London stock exchanges, the Japanese government still owns roughly one-third of NTT's shares, regulated by the NTT Law.

The Buffaloes played the Oh-managed Fukuoka SoftBank Hawks on a late weekend series in Fukuoka.

Hakata-ku is a ward of Fukuoka City located on its eastern edge.

Air Next, a subsidiary of All Nippon Airways, is headquartered on the grounds of Fukuoka Airport in Hakata-ku.

After the franchise was acquired by department store chain Daiei, Inc., the Hawks were flush with new funds and a new home city in Fukuoka, the capital of the eponymous prefecture on Kyushu Island.

As a part of the series of bootstrap restructuring efforts to avoid filing for IRCJ ( Industrial Revitalization Corporation of Japan ) support, the company sold its famous and popular baseball team, the Fukuoka Daiei Hawks to Softbank, on January 27, 2005 and the company's Hawaii stores in 2006 to Donki.

It is also the only city in the Fukushima prefecture that boasts an airport ; Fukushima Airport was opened on May 20, 1993 with regular domestic flights to Sapporo, Osaka, Fukuoka and Naha and international flights to Shanghai and Seoul.

It was elevated to city status on April 1, 1954 after further expansion through annexation of parts of the neighoring villages of Hara and Fukuoka.

Fukuoka Town was established on April 1, 1889 within Sōsa District, Chiba.