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Mar 20, 2009 Local News
Carbon Beam Cancer Therapy Unit Created
Kyushu Electric Power, Kyudenko, and Hisamitsu Pharmaceutical have created a special unit to encourage participation in a new advanced cancer treatment facility being established i...
Mar 20, 2009 Local News
Yamaga Certified for Historical Scenery Protection Program
The city of Yamaga in Kumamoto Prefecture has become the first municipality in Kyushu to receive certification for its plan to protect historical views under a program conducted by...
Mar 20, 2009 Local News
Turf to be Planted on Nagasaki Streetcar Lines
Nagasaki City and Nagasaki Electric Tramway will embark on a model green project in which turf will be planted between parallel streetcar tracks operating in the city. The objectiv...
Mar 20, 2009 Local News
Shellfish Fry to be Moved to Halt Decline of Tairagi Mussels
The governments of Saga and Nagasaki prefectures revealed they will embark on a major program to move young tairagi mussels in the Ariake Sea to halt their sharp decline. One reaso...
Mar 12, 2009 Local News
Fukuoka City Debt Down to 1.79 Million Yen per Capita
A special finance committee in the Fukuoka City Council responded to questions on the ninth about the city’s indebtedness. The committee answered that their projection for the city...
Mar 12, 2009 Local News
Infant Care Facility Use Expands in Fukuoka Prefecture
Last October, Kitakyushu was one of the first cities in the country to open areas in public buildings and department stores for mothers to nurse their infants or change their diape...
Mar 12, 2009 Local News
Kumamoto to Provide Assistance for Welfare Recipients
Kumamoto Prefecture has established a system in which it will lend 38,000 yen per month interest free to university students from families receiving welfare benefits. The system, w...
Mar 12, 2009 Local News
Saga Airport Leads Nation in Bird Strikes
The Ministry of Land, Infrastructure, and Transport released statistics for the bird strike ratio for Japanese airports. The ratio is based on the number of strikes per 10,000 take...
Mar 12, 2009 Local News
First Decline in Regional Bankruptcies in 14 Months
The Fukuoka branch of credit rating company Tokyo Shoko Research released statistics for bankruptcies of companies exceeding 10 million yen in the Kyushu-Okinawa region in February...
Mar 12, 2009 Local News
NEC to Close Kagoshima Facility
NEC subsidiary NEC LCD Technologies announced they will close their Kagoshima Prefecture plant by the end of the year. With the sharp downturn in demand for industrial-use LCD disp...