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Apr 30, 2009 Local News
Museum Breaks Yoshinogari Treasures
The Shiga Prefecture Azuchi Castle Archaeological Museum revealed that a museum employee dropped some blue glass tubular beads it had borrowed from the Yoshinogari historical site ...
Apr 23, 2009 Local News
Kyushu Electric to Combine Solar and Wind Power
Kyushu Electric Power will conduct its first trial for supplying electricity through a combination of solar power and wind power stored in lithium ion batteries. The trial will tak...
Apr 23, 2009 Local News
BOJ: Kyushu Economy Drastically Worsening
The Bank of Japan released its quarterly report, commonly known as the Sakura Report, on economic conditions in Japan broken down by region. In January, the prognosis for the Kyush...
Apr 23, 2009 Local News
Three Kyushu Municipalities “Model Environmental Cities”
The national government has designated Kitakyushu, Fukuoka Prefecture, Minamata, Kumamoto Prefecture; and Miyakojima, Okinawa Prefecture as model environmental cities. The joint pr...
Apr 23, 2009 Local News
First Fukuoka Population Decline in Three Years
The Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communications released its statistics for the estimated population of Japan as of October 1, 2008. The population in all seven Kyushu prefectu...
Apr 23, 2009 Local News
Fukuoka Taxi Companies Offering New Services
The deregulation of the taxi industry seven years ago intensified competition, and this has been further intensified by the economic downturn. Businessmen were one of the industry’...
Apr 23, 2009 Local News
Genkai-cho in Atomic Power Agreement with Korean District
Genkai-cho in Saga Prefecture has come to terms with Gijang-gun in Busan, South Korea to form a friendship agreement as early as July as two local governments with atomic power pla...
Apr 23, 2009 Local News
Asahi Glass to Stop Auto Glass Production
Tokyo-based Asahi Glass announced it will shut its automobile glass manufacturing plant in Kitakyushu by the end of the year. Most of the 174 employees will be shifted to a differe...
Apr 23, 2009 Local News
Saga and Nagasaki Hold Sale of Seized Assets
Takeo and Arita-cho in Saga Prefecture, and Hirado and Hasami-cho in Nagasaki Prefecture held a joint sale in Hasami-cho on the 19th of assets seized from tax delinquents. Takeo ha...
Apr 23, 2009 Local News
Regional Department Store Sales Plunge 8.8%
The Kyushu Department Stores Association reports that the aggregate sales for the 27 department stores in the Kyushu-Okinawa region for March totaled 47.5 billion yen, an 8.8% year...
