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Mar 25, 2019 Event
116th Arita Ceramic Fair
Over one million people visit this annual festival in Arita, a town renowned for ceramics and porcelain known as aritayaki. Some 500 stalls and shops line the streets between Kami-...
Mar 14, 2019 Event
Kashima Sake Brewery Tour
JR Kyushu will operate a special sake tourism train on Mar. 23. The train connects JR Hakata Station and Hizenhama Station in the Kashima area, where an annual sake event with barr...
Feb 15, 2019 Local News
Automated Towing Trucks At Saga Airport
All Nippon Airways (ANA) announced on February 12 plans to trial automated towing tractors in Saga Airport from the end of March. The towing equipment will be used to carry baggage...
Feb 14, 2019 Local News
Kyushu Electric Power to Close Genkai No. 2 Reactor
On Feb. 13 Kyushu Electric Power, Co. (Kyuden) announced their decision to cease operation of the No. 2 reactor at the Genkai Nuclear Plant. The reactor began operation in 1981 wit...
Feb 6, 2019 Local News
Sagan Tosu’s Stadium Gets a New Name: Ekimae Real Estate Stadium
The new name for the Sagan Tosu’s home stadium was announced on Feb. 1. The real estate company in Kurume City, Ekimae Real Estate Holdings Co., Ltd. won the naming rights agreemen...
Feb 1, 2019 Local News
More Storage at Genkai Nuclear Plant Announced
Kyushu Electric Power Co., Inc. has requested approval for construction of additional dry cask storage for radioactive waste in Genkai Nuclear Plant. After restarting reactors numb...
Jan 21, 2019 Local News
Aeon Collaborates with Kamimine Town for Redevelopment
Kamimine Town in Saga Prefecture and Aeon Kyushu agreed to collaborate on a redevelopment project after the closing of Aeon Kamimine in February. The shopping mall's 39,000 square ...
Dec 4, 2018 Local News
Funding Sought for Children Support Program in Saga
The launch of a general incorporated association, Kodomo Takusyoku Oendan, in Saga was announced. A representative of the Tokyo-based, certified NPO Florence Hiroki Komazaki opened...
Nov 28, 2018 Local News
New Sweet Tomappe Tomato From Saga
A joint venture between Nishitetsu and JA Zen-Noh was announced at a press conference. Their new brand of tomato, Tomappe, will go on sale from the end of this month. The two compa...
Nov 22, 2018 Event
Tokujin Yoshioka Exhibition in Saga
The design for Tokujin Yoshioka's Glass Tea House Kou-an exhibition was first announced at the 54th Venice Biennale in 2011 and first displayed in Shoren-in Temple and Shogunzuka ...