Talk:Fukuoka/Archive 1

Archive 1

Hepburn?

Why is Fukuoka specified as being the Hepburn romanization. Fukuoka isn't just the Hepburn romanization -- it's what 福岡市 is called in English. For that matter, is it necessary to have the kunrei-shiki spelling in the article? I live in Fukuoka, but have never seen it written Hukuoka here (nor have I seen kunrei-shiki widely used anywhere outside of Kansai). Did I miss something somewhere? Is the Fukuoka City Council lobbying to have the city called Hukuoka? -- Tlotoxl 05:33, 1 May 2004 (UTC)

I don't know if it's ever been tried, but I could almost imagine a campaign to rename the prefecture and city to "Hukuoka", given the connotation of the first three letters of "Fukuoka" in the language of another economic superpower. (See also Condom, Pussy, Brest, Fucking, etc.) --Damian Yerrick (☎) 01:33, 10 March 2006 (UTC)

Rumours

There is rumours going around Fukuoka, that there will be a terrorist attack in Tenjin in 25th of december 2005... let's wait and see what happends... and lets avoid Tenjin, just in case anything happends :D --Ningyou 21:06, 14 December 2005 (UTC)

Earthquakes

Use of "epicenter"

The "center" of an earthquake is where it occurs underground. The "epicenter" is the point on the [Earth's] surface nearest the epicenter (the center of the earthquake as perceived from the surface). It is not clear whether the source was saying that an earthquake could be 7.0 at the epicenter or at the center, but it is nonsensical to say that the "epicenter" is located below the surface, because then it wouldn't be "epi" anymore. I have tried to fix this as best I can, but someone with access to the source material may be able to do a better job in explaining what is really going on here. Thesmothete 02:33, 11 March 2006 (UTC)

Good catch. It's not entirely clear me what the Japanese sources are saying either (7 at the epicenter or at its focus - perhaps not all that relevant given how shallow the fault is below Fukuoka), and they also regularly mix shindo and magnitude estimates in their articles. I haven't reverified this time, but I think there's also some discrepancy between the USGS estimates of the quake's magnitude and those made by the Japanese meteorological bureau. -- Oarih 11:24, 11 March 2006 (UTC)

Japanese ranked it at the local news here to be Shindo 7, so I'd assume it was about 6 richters then. --Ningyou 21:20, 4 April 2006 (UTC)

Excel Saga

Would it be relevant to mention that the anime and manga 'Excel Saga' take place in Fukuoka City, Fukuoka Prefecture? It's a fairly well-known series, as far as I know. Maybe we could add a little 'In Fiction' section, the way it is on the Tokyo page?--Tally Solleni 16:36, 27 April 2006 (UTC)

Sounds good to me. (^_^) --日本穣 Nihonjoe 23:34, 27 April 2006 (UTC)

I don't know if I would put it that far up the page, though. Brutannica 08:19, 6 July 2006 (UTC)

How about a trivia section at the bottom and put it in there. Ben W Bell talk 09:53, 6 July 2006 (UTC)

article name

The name "Fukuoka, Fukuoka" is never used in practice. Why don't we move this article to Fukuoka City, which is how Japanese Wikipedia titles its version of this article, and how the city is usually called. Also if you look at the other language versions, 22 of 24 articles use either "Fukuoka", "Fukuoka City", or "Fukuoka (city)". Only the Spanish and Indonesian ones use "Fukuoka (Fukuoka)" and "Fukuoka, Fukuoka" respectively. Unless, anyone can show that style used in the title is common, then we should move this article. --Polaron | Talk 04:36, 31 August 2006 (UTC)

Problem is this naming convention, city, prefecture, is used for most Japanese cities. In fact looking around it seems to be used for all but the most famous ones like Kyoto, Tokyo, Osaka. Sapporo, Shizuko, Nagoya, Chiba, Kawasaki, Saitama etc all use the City, Prefecture naming convention. There is a case to open a discussion on this point though. What are other people's thoughts? Ben W Bell talk 06:51, 31 August 2006 (UTC)

The discussion about this is ongoing now at WP:MOS-JA. --Polaron | Talk 07:34, 31 August 2006 (UTC)

Missing info

I'm pretty sure that a fair number of Japanese celebrities have hailed from Fukuoka. There was some info on this page, but it's disappeared. Thus, the article has been tagged as miising info... Ranma9617 06:47, 25 April 2007 (UTC)

If you can get consensus for a subarticle, okay; but please do not turn yet another city article into a bloated list of famous natives. For the last several months, I've been undertaking efforts to reduce this unencyclopedic pratice across many city articles (and in some cases, even country articles). So, please, just don't do it. El_C 01:48, 4 June 2007 (UTC)

Fair use rationale for Image:Fukuoka Symbol.svg

Image:Fukuoka Symbol.svg is being used on this article. I notice the image page specifies that the image is being used under fair use but there is no explanation or rationale as to why its use in this Wikipedia article constitutes fair use. In addition to the boilerplate fair use template, you must also write out on the image description page a specific explanation or rationale for why using this image in each article is consistent with fair use.

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BetacommandBot (talk) 20:41, 22 December 2007 (UTC)

Map?

The map on this page doesn't actually show where the city is located in Japan. Could someone add this useful piece of visual information? Also, while I was here, I restored the information about Excel Saga that some vandal removed. 69.86.235.225 (talk) 16:30, 20 May 2008 (UTC)

住みやすい

I've heard that Fukuoka (or the greater Fukuoka metropolitan area or some such; 福岡市圏) is routinely named most 住みやすい (that is, easiest to live in, easiest lifestyle) in all of Japan, or perhaps all of East Asia. Does anyone know anything about this? Who is assigning this designation? What exactly makes life in Fukuoka so good? ... If we can find a source for this, I think it would be an excellent thing to add to the article. LordAmeth (talk) 18:24, 8 October 2008 (UTC)

Temperatures

An IP user added the following to the Climate section. There's no citation, and no indication if these are averages, extremes, or just the data for a given year, e.g. 2007. Should we re-insert it with a "citation needed" tag? Get rid of it?

Jan: Min 3 Max 10 Feb: Min 4 Max 11 Mar: Min 7 Max 15 Apr: Min 10 Max 19 May: Min 15 Max 24 Jun: Min 20 Max 29 Jul: Min 23 Max 31 Aug: Min 24 Max 32 Sep: Min 22 Max 30 Oct: Min 16 Max 24 Nov: Min 10 Max 18 Dec: Min 6 Max 13

Thanks. LordAmeth (talk) 17:24, 2 November 2008 (UTC)

On the page of the Japan Meteorological Agency I found a lot of climate data: mean air temparature, Monthly mean daily maxium temperature, Monthly mean daily minimum Temperature and more. Here you can choose Fukuoka Station No. 47807. Maybe someone can use it, because I don't what's the best way. --R0pe-196 (talk) 12:28, 15 November 2008 (UTC)

Monocle Article July/August 2008

In the article are some facts, that are missing here. I searched the web for other sources, but I couldn't find any. So maybe someone can use these:

Monocle, July/August 2008, issue 15, volume 02, p.211-212

• the hospitality industry is a major employer: Nakasu is the biggest entertainment district in western Japan (said to have 3,500 bars and restaurants).
• Japan's largest hotel, the 36-floor JAL Sea Hawk, is also in Fukuoka.
• Land, apartment and rental prices are significantly lower in Fukuoka than Tokyo. In 2007, the average apartment in Fukuoka cost €155,000 (€2,500 per sq m). The average rental price for a 60 sq m apartment in Fukuoka city was €580 a month, or €10 a sq m. Office rental prices in Fukuoka in 2007 where €60 per tsubo which is €18 per sq m. (don't know if something like this has to be in an encyclopedia, if yes, maybe someone can find data in yen)

--R0pe-196 (talk) 02:26, 17 November 2008 (UTC)