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Jul 12, 2022 Local News
Kyudai Runs Yatai Car Design Contest
Tokyo-based Coplus Inc. and Kyushu University’s Itoshima Akiya Project are jointly running a yatai-car project design contest. A yatai car (food truck) will be built from the winni...
Jul 12, 2022 Local News
Iizuka First in Fukuoka with Youme Delivery
Construction of Youme Town Iizuka began on Jul. 7. Conveniently located near JR Iizuka Station, the shopping mall will have around 100 shops, including a new type of cinema complex...
Jul 1, 2022 Local News
Teleworking Facility Opened in Toho Town
Fukuoka Prefecture opened a remote-working office in Toho Village. The Telework Terrace Hoshu is designed to revitalize the underpopulated region while remote work becomes more nor...
Jul 1, 2022 Local News
JR Hitahikosan Line “BRT” Restoration Plans Means More Stations
The section between Soeda Station and Yoake Station on the JR Hita-Hikosan Line, which was damaged by the torrential rains in northern Kyushu five years ago and has been out of ser...
Jul 1, 2022 Local News
Oita Onsen Association Launches Safety Program
Oita’s local hot spring association launched its safety program, ‘Yufuin Anshin no Yado.’ It is the first initiative by a hotel association to qualify safety measures against the n...
Jul 1, 2022 Local News
Kyudai Associate Professor Received Knighthood
Shutaro Takeda, a 33-year-old associate professor at Kyushu University, received his knighthood from the Knights of Malta. The international organization with more than 900 years o...
Jun 29, 2022 Local News
Karatsu-born Singer-songwriter Kenichi Yamasaki To Perform in London
Kenichi Yamasaki is a bright, charismatic, soccer-loving 28-year-old singer-songwriter born in Karatsu, Saga. He taught himself keyboards and guitar, and six years ago, his career ...
Jun 24, 2022 Local News
One Of The World’s Largest Merry-Go-Rounds Is Coming To Nagasaki
One of the world’s largest merry-go-rounds will appear inside Huis Ten Bosch amusement park in the fall of 2022. The Italian-made ‘Sky Carousel’ will be the first three-story carou...
Jun 23, 2022 Local News
Art-focused Children’s Nursery Opened in Fukuoka
Fukuoka Bloom Arts School opened in April as the first art-focused nursery in Fukuoka. With the concept of nurturing power to create and express for an AI-progressed future...
Jun 22, 2022 Local News
Yamakasa Limited Edition Products and Promotions Announced
Companies are celebrating the return of the Hakata Gion Yamakasa festival with limited items and promotions. Sapporo Breweries debuted Yamakasa beer cans in Kyushu and Okinawa pref...