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Feb 26, 2021 Local News
JR Kyushu Cancels Recruitment for Fiscal 2021
JR Kyushu has canceled recruitment activities to acquire new staff for the fiscal year of 2021. On Feb. 25, the company announced its first such cancelation in thirty-four years. T...

Feb 25, 2021 Local News
Fukuoka Requests Early Lifting of State of Emergency
On Feb. 24, Fukuoka Prefecture requested an early lifting of the state of emergency from the national Government, as the region’s medical situation has since cleared criteria for l...

Feb 22, 2021 Local News
Fukuoka Governor Hiroshi Ogawa To Resign
Fukuoka Governor, Hiroshi Ogawa, currently hospitalized for cancer treatment, announced plans to step down from his post. Earlier today, Feb. 22, Ogawa met the Vice-Governor, Seita...

Feb 22, 2021 Local News
Vaccination Program Begins in Kyushu
As of Feb. 19, vaccination programs began at the National Hospital Organization Kyushu Medical Center in Fukuoka City, where around 600 of 870 eligible workers agreed to take part ...

Feb 19, 2021 Local News
Nishitetsu To Discontinue Nimoca Points for Train and Buses
Nishitetsu announced the discontinuation of point services for its train and bus passengers from April 2021. According to Nishitetsu’s announcement on Feb. 18, terminating the ince...

Feb 18, 2021 Local News
Fukuoka City Records Record Apartment Rent Increase
According to a report by At Home Co., Ltd., apartment rents in Fukuoka City saw the most significant increase ever in 2020. The city topped the national rankings in two categories;...

Feb 18, 2021 Local News
Three Kagoshima Patients Test Positive for COVID19 Variant
Kagoshima Prefecture reported on Feb. 16 that the more recent variety of the U.K. coronavirus strain was detected in three female patients in the area. The women had contact with p...

Feb 16, 2021 Local News
700 Medical Clinics in Fukuoka City to Administer Vaccines
Fukuoka City announced that it would administer the new coronavirus vaccines at some 700 medical clinics. Cooperating facilities will administer around 10 to approximately 25 doses...

Feb 10, 2021 Local News
Fukuoka Governor Ogawa Remains Hospitalized
The vice-governor of Fukuoka Prefecture, Seitaro Hattori, told a press conference yesterday that 71-year-old Governor Hiroshi Ogawa was diagnosed with primary lung adenocarcinoma. ...

Feb 9, 2021 Local News
Kumamoto Company Partners with Astrazeneca for Vaccine Formulation
The British–Swedish pharmaceutical company, Astrazeneca, announced a partnership with KM Biologics in Kumamoto City for the domestic formulation of new coronavirus vaccines. Vaccin...