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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
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...
Sep 11, 2008 Local News
FOMA Contracts Exceed 5 Million Mark in Kyushu
NTT DoCoMo’s Kyushu branch announced that as of the end of August, they had more than 5 million contracts for FOMA, their third-generation cellular telephone, in the Kyushu/Okinawa...
Sep 11, 2008 Local News
Kyushu Electric in Consortium to buy Singapore’s Largest Power Plant
A consortium led by Marubeni and GDF Suez from France, and which includes Kyushu Electric Power, Kansai Electric Power, and the Japan Bank for International Cooperation, will buy S...
Sep 11, 2008 Local News
Spaceworld to Halve Number of Employees
The company operating the Kitakyushu theme park Spaceworld revealed that it would reduce the number of employees at the facility by half. The intent is to reduce personnel costs an...
Sep 11, 2008 Local News
Saga Prefecture Wants to Outsource Forestry Work
Saga Prefecture announced it has launched a project to encourage private companies and local municipalities interested in forest preservation to become involved in forest thinning ...
