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Sep 25, 2008 Local News
Regional Growth Rise This FY Revised Downward to 0.6%
The Kyushu Economic Research Center released its revised forecast for the real growth rate in Kyushu and Okinawa Prefecture for FY 2008. The center’s new forecast calls for growth ...
Sep 25, 2008 Local News
Fukuoka City Land Price Rise Levels Off
The Ministry of Land, Infrastructure, and Transport released its annual report on nationwide land valuations on the 18th, which shows that the rise in land values in Fukuoka City h...
Sep 25, 2008 Local News
Kyushu Regional Cosmetics Display
The Iwataya department store in the Tenjin district of Fukuoka City is holding the first-ever exhibit of cosmetics products created solely by Kyushu-based companies. Scheduled to r...
Sep 18, 2008 Local News
Asiana Airlines to Increase Seoul-Miyazaki City Round Trips
Asiana Airlines of South Korea announced it would increase its weekly total of round trip flights between Seoul and Miyazaki City from three to five from the end of October to the ...
Sep 18, 2008 Local News
Large Crab Harvest in the Ariake Sea
Watermen working in the Ariake Sea are reporting they are now harvesting large quantities of Takezaki crabs. There was a sharp decline in the amount of crabs taken in August due to...
Sep 18, 2008 Local News
Kumamoto Governor Opposes Controversial Dam
During a speech at the Kumamoto Prefecture Council, Governor Ikuo Kabashima announced his opposition to the controversial Kawabe River dam project. The governor also said the natio...
Sep 18, 2008 Local News
Citizen Groups Campaign to Halt Yamaguchi Power Plant Construction
Two citizen groups in Yamaguchi Prefecture have begun a campaign asking the prefecture to turn down the application of Chugoku Electric Power to conduct landfill operations in conj...
Sep 18, 2008 Local News
Sekisui Chemical Co. Housing Company to Assist Vocational Centers
The Fukuoka City-based Sekisui Chemical Co. Housing Company revealed it will purchase roughly 50,000 gift items produced at regional vocational centers to give to their customers. ...
Sep 18, 2008 Local News
Nagasaki Prefecture to Enable Free Shipping for Outlying Island Products
Nagasaki Prefecture will begin an enterprise with Oriental Air Bridge, an airline linking the prefecture’s three main outlying islands with the prefectural airport, to use the airc...
Sep 18, 2008 Local News
Saga Prefecture to Boost Nuclear Fuel Tax
Saga Prefecture announced it will raise the fuel tax rate on Kyushu Electric’s nuclear power plant in Genkai-cho starting in FY 2009 for a five-year period. The current tax rate is...
