Consulate of the United States, Fukuoka

The Consulate of the United States, Fukuoka (在福岡米国領事館) is a consular post of the United States in Fukuoka City, Fukuoka Prefecture, Japan.

The consulate has a public relations division called the Fukuoka American Center.

Currently it is the only U.S. consulate in Kyushu, but for about 80 years from the late Tokugawa period to the start of the Pacific War, the consulate was located in Nagasaki instead of Fukuoka.

History
In August 1950 a U.S. consular post was opened in Daimyo-cho, Fukuoka City. This post was moved to a famous white building known as the "White House" in Tenjin, Fukuoka City, in March 1952. On April 28, 1952, following the enforcement of the Treaty of San Francisco, it was established as the U.S. Consulate in Fukuoka. The first Principal Officer was Owen J. Zurhellen. It moved to Ōhori in October 1960, and remains there to this day.