The Least Useful Guide to Fukuoka

When I was walking in my usual beachside walking course in the evening, an elderly gentleman in his sixties spoke to me (this time not a police questioning).

This was not my first time to be picked up by elderly men. I am not bragging, but I seem to be quite popular with elderly gentlemen.

We had a bit of chat. And I have learnt a lot about this beach from his lecture.

Before I forgot, I am going to note what I have learnt.

●　In the beginning of June, there was a suicide in this very beach. The deceased was a 41-year old woman who was likely to live around here.

●　She drown herself at 9am.and her body was found half past 9, so someone living in the higher floors of the flats surrounding the beach must have witnessed the scene. But no one reported the event to the police.

●　Not only this case, there have been at least one body found every year around this beach, but most of the cases haven’t been on TV or papers.　

●　As long as he can remember, there was a suicide inside a beachside public toilet, and a high-school boy drowned the beach next to this.

●　To help someone recover breath, mouth-to-mouth resuscitation is not the best way; in exchange for saving someone’s life, you and the recipient may have to risk getting infectious diseases. Get AED (Automated External Defibrillator) available in the guardhouse, it’s a safer way for both the rescuing and rescued.

●　Homeless people used to live here, but as the city council encouraged them to find somewhere to live and get welfare benefits (around JPY100, 000 plus housing allowance, according to him), they settled in and there have been fewer those people on this beach.