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Jun 11, 2018 Local News
New ANA Cargo Plane Route Goes Into Operation
ANA Holdings' new regular cargo route, which will call at Kitakyushu Airport late on Mondays, went into operation on June 4. The company's freight plane will fly from Kansai to Kit...
Jun 11, 2018 Local News
Rizing Zephyr Fukuoka Appoints New Non-Executive Directors
Rizing Zephyr Fukuoka announced on June 5 that Fukuoka natives Takafumi Horie and Takeshi Aso have been appointed as non-executive directors of the team. Both business persons hav...
Jun 8, 2018 Local News
New Sports Arena Opens in Kurume
A new multipurpose sports arena, one of the largest of its kind in Kyushu, has opened in Higashikushihara-machi, Kurume City. The Kurume Arena has a total floor space of approximat...
Jun 8, 2018 Local News
Kyuden to Carry Out Experiments on Electric Vehicles
Kyushu Electric Power Co., Inc. (Kyuden) announced on May 31 that they will carry out substantive experiments on electric vehicles (EV). Starting from this June, the company will a...
Jun 8, 2018 Local News
Luxury Apartments on Old Daimyo Elementary Site Eye Foreign Tenants
As part of the efforts to redevelop the site of the old Daimyo Elementary School, Sekisui House and Nishi-Nippon Railroad will build furnished luxury service apartments with an eye...
Jun 7, 2018 Local News
Decrease in Cruise Ships Using Kyushu Ports
Preliminary statistics released by the Ministry of Land, Infrastructure and Transport's Kyushu Regional Development Bureau have revealed that a total of 106 cruise ships called at ...
Jun 7, 2018 Local News
Three Lion Cubs Born in Oita
The Kyushu Natural Wildlife Park African Safari in Usa City, Oita welcomed three new lion cubs on April 27. The park's female lion Rita gave birth to triplets (two females and one ...
Jun 6, 2018 Local News
New Digital Currency Available in Huis Ten Bosch Next Spring
Huis Ten Bosch announced on June 1 that they will introduce a new electronic currency for use at their facility this December. The Ten Bosch coin will help make financial transacti...
Jun 5, 2018 Local News
New JR Train Station to Open in Itoshima
JR Kyushu announced on May 30 that their new station in Itoshima City, to be located between Chikuzen-Maebaru and Hatae stations, will be called Itoshima Koko-mae. This will be JR ...
Jun 4, 2018 Local News
Prefecture sets up Center to Provide Disaster Information to Foreigners
Fukuoka Prefecture and the Fukuoka International Exchange Foundation have opened the Multilingual Disaster Support Center inside the Foundation’s office in ACROS Fukuoka in Tenjin....