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Oct 10, 2014 Local News
Typhoon Vongfong Approaching Kyushu
Super typhoon Vongfong (19-go in Japan) is slowly heading north from the Philippines’ east ocean. It will gradually lose power but it will likely pose a threat to Okinawa on Saturd...
Sep 25, 2014 Local News
Kyuden May End Renewable Buybacks
Kyushu Electric Power Company is considering ending new renewable energy buyback contracts throughout Kyushu. The company is considering the move because there is more solar power ...
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Sep 22, 2014 Local News
Goats Replace Grass Cutters In Oita
In Yufu City, in the Oita Prefecture, there is a horse riding club called “Crane Yufuin” where a goat family performs the weeding of a two hectares field
Sep 13, 2014 Local News
Kyuden May Scrap Reactor At Genkai
Kyushu Electric Power Co. (“Kyuden”) is considering shuttering the No. 1 reactor at its in Genkai Town, Saga Prefecture. The 559,000 kW reactor will turn 40 next year, which is the...
Jun 26, 2014 Local News
Kyushu Nuke Plant Evacuation Zones May Be Inadequate
According to a research report issued by Environmental Research Institute-Tokyo, if accidents requiring evacuation were to occur at the Sendai (Kagoshima) and Genkai (Saga) nuclear...
Apr 22, 2014 Local News
Volcanologists Say Sendai Plant At Risk
In a survey of Japanese volcanologists conducted by Nishinippon Shimbun, the Sendai nuclear power plant in Satsumasendai City, Kagoshima was chosen as having the highest risk of vo...
Apr 16, 2014 Local News
Fukuoka Zoo Welcomes Tsushima Leopard Cat Kittens
On Apr. 14, the Fukuoka City Zoo announced the birth of three Tsushima leopard cats, a nationally protected species that it has been trying to breed. One of the kittens died after ...
Mar 25, 2014 Local News
Fukuoka’s Kego Fault Reexamined
According to a detailed survey conducted by Institute of Seismology and Volcanology at Kyushu University, the Kego fault, the fissure responsible for the 2005 Fukuoka earthquake, h...
Mar 14, 2014 Local News
Powerful Earthquake Rattles Kyushu
A 6.3-magnitude earthquake struck off southern Kyushu at at 2:06 a.m. on Friday morning but no tsunami warning was issued.The epicenter of the quake was located 13kms north of Kuni...
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Jan 16, 2014 Local News
Nagasaki Seeks to Upgrade Rocks, Clarify EEZ
On Jan. 10 Goto City in Nagasaki Prefecture mailed an application to the Geospatial Information Authority of Japan to change the name of three sets of rocks (iwa) near Japan’s mari...