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Jul 24, 2008 Local News
Three Kyushu Cities Sign Exchange Agreement
Mayor Hiroyuki Mori of Kagoshima City announced that a special exchange and cooperation agreement would be signed next month with Fukuoka City and Kumamoto City. The agreement is e...
Jul 24, 2008 Local News
Kyushu Lagging in Conversion of Paper Stock Certificates
Only six months remains until all stock certificates will eliminated in favor of electronic records. Yet as many as 660,000 shareholders in Kyushu and Okinawa Prefecture still reta...
Jul 24, 2008 Local News
First Business Conference for Seoul Tourism Held in Fukuoka
Seoul Tourism Marketing, a group consisting of government and private sector representatives from the South Korean capital, held a business conference with Fukuoka City-based touri...
Jul 24, 2008 Local News
Kyushu Exports to Middle East Soar
In its analysis of trade statistics for FY 2007, the Kyushu Economic Research Center reports that exports from the region to the 14 countries and territories of the Middle East ros...
Jul 24, 2008 Local News
Saga Prefecture Soliciting Ads for Employee PCs
Starting in August, Saga Prefecture will solicit private-sector companies to place paid advertising on the screens of the PCs prefectural employees use at work. About 4,500 compute...
Jul 24, 2008 Local News
Kitakyushu Non-Profit to Hold Beijing Fashion Show
The Kitakyushu International Cultural Exchange Association (KIC), a non-profit organization, will join with other groups to stage the Japan-China Friendship Adult Fashion Show in B...
Jul 24, 2008 Local News
Best Denki to Expand to Middle East
Consumer electronics mass merchandiser Best Denki, headquartered in Fukuoka City, announced its intention to open a sales outlet in the Middle East this year. The store will be ope...
Jul 24, 2008 Local News
South Pacific Seaweed Beds Expanding in Kyushu
The Fisheries Research Agency released an interim report on its study of seaweed abnormalities near Kyushu, which found that beds of seaweed containing varieties found usually in t...
Jul 24, 2008 Local News
Fukuoka Venture Market Held This Week
Venture capital-backed companies from Fukuoka and other prefectures displayed their new products and technologies at the Fukuoka Venture Market in Fukuoka City on the 22nd and 23rd...
Jul 24, 2008 Local News
First Business Conference for Seoul Tourism Held in Fukuoka
Seoul Tourism Marketing, a group consisting of government and private sector representatives from the South Korean capital, held a business conference with Fukuoka City-based touri...