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Feb 12, 2021 Local News
Kitakyushu To Provide ¥1 billion in Support to StarFlyer
Kitakyushu City will implement its first-ever business rescue plan for the local airline company, Star Flyer Inc. As the anticipated impact of losing direct flights to Tokyo will b...
Feb 12, 2021 Local News
Japan Tobacco Closes Two Tobacco Factories in Fukuoka
Japan Tobacco Inc. (JT) announced closures of its two factories in Fukuoka Prefecture. The tobacco factory's operations in Chikushino City and the filter factory in Tagawa City wil...
Feb 10, 2021 Local News
Itoshima Drive-in Theatre Extended
Additional nights for the ‘Forest Night Drive’ drive-in cinema in Itoshima were announced. The outdoor cinema screens international feature films and displays project mappings agai...
Feb 10, 2021 Local News
Saga-based Student Protests Discriminatory Text
A Muslim student wrote to NHK after taking a mock test that included discriminating text related to Islam. The high school student in Saga Prefecture explained that reading the tex...
Feb 10, 2021 Local News
Local Sri Lankan Restaurant Packaged Curry Marketed Nationwide
Pouched curry by Tsunapapa, the popular Sri Lankan curry restaurant in Fukuoka City, debuted from House Foods Corp. The restaurant joined House’s ‘the chosen popular restaurants (選...
Feb 10, 2021 Local News
Fukuoka Governor Ogawa Remains Hospitalized
The vice-governor of Fukuoka Prefecture, Seitaro Hattori, told a press conference yesterday that 71-year-old Governor Hiroshi Ogawa was diagnosed with primary lung adenocarcinoma. ...
Feb 9, 2021 Local News
Kumamoto Company Partners with Astrazeneca for Vaccine Formulation
The British–Swedish pharmaceutical company, Astrazeneca, announced a partnership with KM Biologics in Kumamoto City for the domestic formulation of new coronavirus vaccines. Vaccin...
Feb 9, 2021 Local News
Kitakyushu City Opens Online Agriculture and Fishery Festival
Kitakyushu City’s ‘Agriculture, Forestry and Fishery Festival’ will be held online until Feb. 28. The annual festival to sell and promote local specialties and fresh produce was sc...
Feb 9, 2021 Local News
Low Temperature Freezers Vaccines Arrived at Kyushu Cancer Center
An ultra-cold freezer to store new coronavirus vaccines arrived at the Kyushu Cancer Center on Feb. 5. The center is one of the one-hundred designated hospitals whose workers will ...
Feb 9, 2021 Local News
Job Support Program for Nakasu Workers Launched
The Nakasu Daigaku job support program for mothers who work in bars and restaurants in the Nakasu nightlife district was established. A nursery manager, Mayumi Kusano, who takes ca...