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Oct 7, 2019 Local News
JR Kyushu Battle Tornadoes
JR Kyushu will create a section to improve safety from tornadoes. Recently, one of the company's cargo containers was hit by a tornado-like wind during typhoon No.17 and caused a p...
Oct 2, 2019 Local News
Kyushu Electric Launches Hydroponic Lettuce Business
Kyushu Electric Power Co., Inc. announced on September 25 that it will develop a large-scale facility to produce hydroponic lettuce. The company will make an AI-controlled environm...
Sep 26, 2019 Local News
Saga Prefecture Offers Cash Back To Visitors
Saga Prefectural Tourism Federation announced a special discount available at hotels and ryokan in the prefecture to entice back tourists after being hit by the severe rainfall in ...
Sep 20, 2019 Local News
Typhoon 17 Approaches Kyushu – Rugby Fanzone Closed Sat & Sun
According to the Japan Meteorological Agency, Typhoon No. 17 (Tapah) is expected to bring strong winds and heavy rain to most of Japan over the three-day weekend. The typhoon is ex...
Aug 29, 2019 Local News
Damage Reported After Heavy Rains in Northern Kyushu
The severe rainfall in the northern Kyushu area has resulted in at least two deaths in the prefectures of Fukuoka and Saga. While special warnings in the area were lifted in the af...
Aug 28, 2019 Local News
Emergency Weather Warnings in Effect for Northern Kyushu
Heavy rainfall began in the northern areas of Kyushu last night, and the Japan Meteorological Agency has issued a special warning. Mudslides, floods, and rising rivers have occurre...
Aug 14, 2019 Local News
Fukuoka Racks Up ¥2.3 Billion Losses From Heavy Rains
Fukuoka Prefecture estimated that losses caused by the heavy rainfall on July 21 exceeded ¥2.3 billion. Water filled 325 hectares of rice fields and other farm fields in areas such...
Aug 2, 2019 Local News
Nagasaki’s Goto City Tagged For Offshore wind plant
On July 30, the Ministry of Economy, Trade, and Industry announced four locations for consideration of future offshore wind plants and Goto City in Nagasaki Prefecture was included...
Jul 22, 2019 Local News
Fukuoka and Saga Hit Hard by Heavy Rain
Severe rainfall hit the prefectures of Fukuoka and Saga on July 20 and 21 and an evacuation alert (warning level 4) was activated for 57,000 people in the areas of Asakura City and...
Jul 18, 2019 Local News
Moths From North and South America Eating Kyushu Crops
Caterpillars of Spodoptera frugiperda (also known as fall armyworm), a foreign moth native to North and South America, has been found in five prefectures in Kyushu. Announcements h...
