Bar CODA: Enter at your own peril, pass the bolted door…where impossible things may happen!

It’s a night out in Fukuoka, but you don’t know where to go. Are Daimyo’s clubs too loud for you? Is Nakasu too overly populated by businessmen and mini-skirt bimbos? Are you just desperate for a good quality drink in a … Continue reading

Tashiro Furukawa 170th Birthday

Today is the the birthday of the man who invented the Japanese sign language, Mr Tashiro Furukawa. A pioneer in deaf and blind education, he opened Japan’s first Deaf School, which is still open to students in present day and age.

"Congratulations" in Japanese sign language

“Congratulations” in Japanese sign language

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