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Aug 28, 2008 Local News
Nishitetsu to Operate Fukuoka Tour Bus
Fukuoka City-based Nishi-Nippon Railroad (Nishitetsu) will begin operation of a tour bus route in the city starting on September 22. Called “Green”, the bus will take tourists to f...
Aug 21, 2008 Local News
Small Imari Restaurant Wins Monde Selection Award
The Monde Selection international institute in Brussels for evaluating product quality has awarded a gold medal in the food seasonings division to the original salad dressing creat...
Aug 21, 2008 Local News
University-Based Business Startups Slow
The Kyushu Bureau of Economy, Trade, and Industry released its survey of 2007 venture capital-backed business startups that were developed at universities. Only eight of these comp...
Aug 21, 2008 Local News
Ariake Sea Red Tide Disrupts Bivalve Reproduction
The Saga Prefecture Maritime Promotion Center released the results of its survey showing that the so-called red tide, caused by harmful plankton, disrupts the breeding of bivalves ...
Aug 21, 2008 Local News
Fukuoka City Office Occupancy Rate Declines
The Fukuoka City branch of office leasing company Miki Shoji Co. released a report on office occupancy rate in the city as of the end of July. The rate fell by 0.13 percentage poin...
Aug 21, 2008 Local News
Three Universities Team Up to Develop Car Electronics
Graduate schools of the University of Kitakyushu, the Kyushu Institute of Technology, and Waseda University of Tokyo announced they will form an alliance next April to train person...
Aug 21, 2008 Local News
Kitakyushu Selects Chinese Student as Face for 2008 Tourism Campaign
The city of Kitakyushu has selected a student from Shanghai, China, to be the campaign girl for its tourism promotions this year. Ryu Ei This is the Japanese pronunciation of kanji...
Aug 21, 2008 Local News
Recycling Operation to Start Next Year at Ikejima
Fukuoka City-based Mitsui Matsushima formally announced it would begin a recycling operation next year at Ikejima in Nagasaki City, the last Kyushu coal mine, which shut down in 20...
Aug 21, 2008 Local News
Exports to Asia of Kyushu Farm, Forestry, and Fisheries Products Brisk
The value of Kyushu agricultural, forestry, and fisheries products during business year 2007 soared 17% to 54.3 billion yen, topping the 50 billion yen-level for the first time. Ky...
Aug 21, 2008 Local News
Sharp Reduction in New Condos on Market
A Fukuoka City based company monitoring conditions in the housing industry reports that the number of new condominiums coming on the market in the seven Kyushu prefectures from Jan...
