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Oct 24, 2008 Local News
Kitakyushu to Establish Ombudsman Position for Social Welfare
The city of Kitakyushu announced that starting November 4 it would establish the position of ombudsman for health and social welfare facilities to handle citizen complaints and iss...
Oct 24, 2008 Local News
Kyushu Mayors’ Council Accelerates Plans to Seek a “Kyushu Province”
A committee of the Kyushu Mayors’ Council held a conference at a Kitakyushu hotel last week to promote plans to create a Kyushu-wide provincial style government. They announced the...
Oct 24, 2008 Local News
Miyazaki Prefecture Working to Attract Solar Power Companies
At a regularly scheduled press conference on the 21st, Miyazaki Prefecture Governor Hideo Higashikokubaru announced that starting next year, the prefecture will work to attract com...
Oct 24, 2008 Local News
Step Taken Toward Kyushu-Korean Economic Sphere
The mayors, government officials, and business leaders of the sister cities Fukuoka City and Busan, South Korea, launched the Fukuoka – Busan Economic Cooperation Council on the 20...
Oct 24, 2008 Local News
Kyushu Companies Fail to Come Clean on Consumption Tax
The Fukuoka and Kumamoto Regional Taxation Bureaus announced the results of surveys they took of individuals in the seven Kyushu prefectures from July 2007 to June 2008 for income ...
Oct 24, 2008 Local News
Management Buyout Planned for Zenkyoken
Executives of the Fukuoka City-based juku chain Zenkyoken said members of top management are planning buy the company. The company is now listed on the Fukuoka Stock Exchange, and ...
Oct 16, 2008 Local News
Traffic Rules in Ancient Dazaifu
Excavations of ancient ruins in Dazaifu, Fukuoka Prefecture, have uncovered a rutted road dating to the 8th century. The ruts are in three places: the middle of the road, and on bo...
Oct 16, 2008 Local News
Law Office to Train Lawyers for Work in Depopulated Areas
The Kyushu Federation of Bar Associations opened the Asakaze Fund Law Office in Fukuoka City to train lawyers to be sent to areas with rapidly declining populations. Through a prog...
Oct 16, 2008 Local News
Group Calls for Food Island Concept for Kyushu
The Kyushu Association of Corporate Executives issued a report calling for the creation of “Food Island Kyushu”, which incorporate the establishment of a Kyushu research institute ...
Oct 16, 2008 Local News
Imari Wins Award for Its Promotion of Reading
The All Japan Magazine and Book Publishers’ and Editors’ Association selected Imari, Saga Prefecture, to receive its second Takahashi Matsunosuke Award for promoting the culture of...
