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Jan 9, 2009 Local News
Not Thinking of Successors, Say 40% of Fukuoka Small Business Owner
The Fukuoka Chamber of Commerce and Industry revealed the results of its survey that shows roughly 40% of the people in charge of small and medium-sized businesses in the prefectur...
Jan 9, 2009 Local News
Solar Cell Evaluation Facility to be Built in Tosu
The National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology will open the country’s first facility for testing and evaluating the performance of solar cells in Tosu, Saga ...
Jan 9, 2009 Local News
Rare Metals Adsorbed with Fruit Rinds
A team of researchers at Saga University announced they have developed an adsorption agent made with materials from fruit rinds and old paper capable of the selective recovery of p...
Jan 9, 2009 Local News
New Produce Market/Restaurant Zone Planned for Island City
Fukuoka City revealed plans to establish what it called a “Nigiwai Zone” on Island City, an artificial island in the city’s Hakata Ward, with a new produce market, an area selling ...
Jan 9, 2009 Local News
Hiwatashi Reelected as Takeo Mayor
Keisuke Hiwatashi was reelected as the mayor of Takeo, Saga Prefecture, in a special election held as a result of debate over privatizing the municipal hospital, which has aggregat...
Jan 9, 2009 Local News
Move to Resume Festival Bashing Starts in Imari
The highlight of the Imari Tontenton Festival, held every year in October, was the clash of groups trying to overturn each other’s 600-kilogram mikoshi, or portable floats. In 2006...
Jan 9, 2009 Local News
Kyushu’s Longest Pier Built in Nagasaki
The Ministry of Land, Infrastructure, and Transport finished work on the construction of a 360-meter pier at the Port of Nagasaki. The pier, which is the longest in the Kyushu-Yama...
Jan 9, 2009 Local News
Cyber-Business Conferences Planned by Fukuoka City and Busan
The Chambers of Commerce of Fukuoka City and Busan, South Korea, have agreed to launch business conferences over the Internet in March. The conferences are designed to strengthen t...
Jan 9, 2009 Local News
Hydrogen Product Testing Center to be Established
The national government and Fukuoka Prefecture plan to establish Japan’s first center for certifying the safety of hydrogen products to meet the needs stemming from research into h...
Jan 9, 2009 Local News
Ceremony to Launch Fukuoka City-Busan Friendship Year Slated
It was announced that a ceremony to kick off the Fukuoka City-Busan Friendship Year to enhance ties between the sister cities will be held in Busan on February 2. The organizers ho...
