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

[1] Currently it is the only U.S. consulate in Kyushu,[2] 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.

[3] In August 1950 a U.S. consular post was opened in Daimyo-cho, Fukuoka City.

On April 28, 1952, following the enforcement of the Treaty of San Francisco, it was established as the U.S. Consulate in Fukuoka.

consul reports to State Department, not the respective country's ambassador)