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Oct 23, 2012 Local News
Demo Held Against USA Osprey
On Oct 21, 300 people demonstrated in Tenjin against the introduction of the MV 22 Osprey Aircraft to Okinawa. After the official demonstration, a petition was submitted to the Ame...
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Oct 22, 2012 Local News
Tosu, Saga Woman Crowned Miss International
Ikumi Yoshimatsu from Tosu, Saga Prefecture won the 2012 Miss International Beauty Pageant. This years pageant was held in Okinawa and more than 60 women competed for the title. Th...
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Oct 20, 2012 Local News
Redback Spiders in Fukuoka City
It was revealed that since 2007, Fukuoka City has been exterminating thousands of redback spiders from Australia. The venomous spiders have recently established colonies across Jap...
Oct 18, 2012 Local News
Nishi-Nippon City Bank and JR Kyushu – All In One Card
The Nishi-Nippon City Bank and JR Kyushu agreed to combine the bank’s cash/credit card, the All In One card, with the railroad’s IC card sugoca and the JQ credit card to create a n...
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Oct 15, 2012 Local News
Fukuoka Built Satellite to Beam Message
In the night sky next month and you may witness a rather unusual phenomenon – a tiny Japanese satellite using LEDs to beam a Morse code message earthwards. The message will come fr...
Oct 11, 2012 Local News
JAXA Launches FIT Satellite
The Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency launched three satellites built by Japanese universities, one of which was from the Fukuoka Institute of Technology, from the Japanese wing o...
Oct 11, 2012 Local News
Kyushu Electric Sets Upper Limit on Renewable Power in Remote Islands
Kyushu Electric Power became the first utility in Japan to establish an upper limit for the amount of wind- or solar-generated power on remote islands not connected to the national...
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Oct 11, 2012 Local News
NHK Taiga Drama 2014 to be Filmed in Fukuoka and Oita
It was announced the 2014 installment of taiga drama is to be filmed in Fukuoka and Oita! Taiga drama is the name NHK gives to its annual, year-long historical fiction television s...
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Oct 5, 2012 Local News
IKEA Shingu – 2 Million Shoppers
IKEA Shingu welcomed their 2,000,000th customer through the door at noon yesterday, Oct. 4. The store is Kyushu’s first IKEA, and since opening on Apr. 11, 2012, it has attracted s...
Oct 4, 2012 Local News
Food Stall District Revived in Kokura
Thirteen eating and drinking establishments opened stalls in a district of Kokura, Kitakyushu, in a move to restore a former stall district that existed in the early to mid-20th ce...