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May 1, 2008 Local News
30% Increase in Culling Area for State-Owned Forests
The Kyushu regional bureau for state-owned forests announced that it would expand by 30% to 15,000 hectares the area in which it would thin out the trees. The objective is to enhan...
May 1, 2008 Local News
30% Increase in Culling Area for State-Owned Forests
The Kyushu regional bureau for state-owned forests announced that it would expand by 30% to 15,000 hectares the area in which it would thin out the trees. The objective is to enhan...
May 1, 2008 Local News
Open Season on Etsu
A Shinto ceremony was held on the 1st for those in the fishing industry marking the start of the season for catching the etsu (Coilia nasus) in Okawa, Fukuoka Prefecture. The fish,...
May 1, 2008 Local News
Kyushu Electric Sets Record High for Power Sales
Kyushu Electric Power reports that it sold 88.082 billion kWh of electricity in FY 2007, a 4.4% increase from the year-before period and a record high. It is also the 21st consecut...
May 1, 2008 Local News
Ceramist Ryuzan Aoki Dies
Ryuzan Aoki of Arita, Saga Prefecture, the first Kyushu ceramist to receive the Order of Culture and an advisor to the Nitten (Japan Fine Arts Exhibition), died of liver failure at...
May 1, 2008 Local News
Orix to Build Shopping Mall in Nagasaki City Suburbs
Tokyo-based Orix announced plans to build a shopping center in a Nagasaki City suburb 10 kilometers north of the city. The anchor tenant will be a Uniqlo outlet. Plans call for the...
May 1, 2008 Local News
Work Begins on Nagasaki Shinkansen Line
A ceremony marking the start of construction on the Nagasaki leg of the Shinkansen was held in a public park in Ureshino, Saga Prefecture, on the 28th. The section of the route bei...
May 1, 2008 Local News
Kumamoto Governor’s Monthly Salary Slashed by One Million Yen
The new governor of Kumamoto Prefecture, Ikuo Urashima, submitted a bill to an extraordinary session of the prefectural legislature to cut the governor’s monthly salary by one mill...
May 1, 2008 Local News
Trials for Using Nishitetsu nimoca Card at Lawson’s
Trials will begin in the Fukuoka City area for the Nishitetsu contactless payment card nimoca, to be introduced on May 18 for use for train fares and as e-money, at four Lawson’s c...
May 1, 2008 Local News
Nishi-Nippon City Bank to Boost International Business
Fukuoka City-based Nishi-Nippon City Bank unveiled its new mid-term business plan, called New Stage 2008. The core elements of the plan are moves to develop the bank’s overseas bus...
