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2026-08-31

Meetup in Fukuoka

福岡でのミートアップ

On last Saturday, I spent the evening at a cafe in Hakata with an incredible group of professionals living here in Fukuoka.

Around the table: people from the United States, Japan, Switzerland, Germany, Taiwan, South Korea, the Netherlands, Indonesia, and India. Nine countries, one table.

Every person had their own story. Different industries, different reasons for choosing to build a life here.

What they all had in common was the same thing I keep noticing in this city: real ambition, and a willingness to figure Japan out instead of just complaining about it.

Conversations like that remind me why I do this work.

Fukuoka doesn't get the attention Tokyo does, but the people quietly building careers and businesses here are some of the sharpest I've met anywhere in Japan.

Thank you to everyone who came out.

If you're a foreign professional in Fukuoka and you weren't at this one, I'd love to meet you at the next one!

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