| 1 | He was born in Fukuoka, Japan, where his parents still live. | |
| 2 | A project of a Japanese pastry shop in Kami-Kawabata, Hakata Ward, Fukuoka City, a historical merchant town. | |
| 3 | Jun-ya Ide, a professor of ecological engineering at the Kurume Institute of Technology in Fukuoka, Japan, first noticed the behavior in the wild. | |
| 4 | The first meeting of leaders from China, Japan and the ROK outside the ASEAN plus China, Japan and the ROK framework was held in Fukuoka, Japan in 2008. | |
| 5 | Researchers from Kyushu University in Fukuoka, Japan suggest that the antioxidant catechins may be responsible for the protective effects. |