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Jun 14, 2012 Local News
Doll Makers Busy with Yamakasa Preparation
Celebrations start on July 1st and doll makers are busy making the decorations for the floats that will be raced through the streets of Hakata during the Yamakasa Festival. The fes...
Jun 14, 2012 Local News
Oldest Mokkan with Family Register Discovered at Dazaifu
Archaeological excavations at Dazaifu, Fukuoka Prefecture, have unearthed the nation’s oldest mokkan with a family register. A mokkan is a strip of wood used for keeping records du...
Jun 14, 2012 Local News
Miyagi Mayor Makes Formal Request to Send Debris
Kitakyushu Mayor Kenji Kitahashi visited Ishinomaki, Miyagi Prefecture, to confirm in person the necessity for the city to accept debris from the Tohoku disaster for incineration a...
Jun 14, 2012 Local News
Kyushu Electric Calls for 10% Cutbacks for 13-Hour Period
With the region’s nuclear power plants still idled, Kyushu Electric Power announced it will expand the time period during which it will request a minimum 10% cutback in power consu...
Jun 13, 2012 Local News
Halal Accrediting NPO opens in Fukuoka
The Nippon Asia Halal Association (NAHA) has just opened their first branch in Kyushu. They aim to accredit Japanese food producers in Kyushu who pass stringent checks, as Halal ap...
Jun 12, 2012 Local News
Extension Approved for Nanakuma Subway Line
The subway line which runs from Hashimoto in Nishi-ku to Tenjin-minami will be getting an extension to Hakata Station after its approval on Monday. Construction will begin in 2014 ...
Jun 12, 2012 Local News
Fire at Fukuoka Chicken Farm
A blaze on Saturday morning at a chicken farm in Shimokawauchi, Bunzen City, Fukuoka, killed 75,000 chickens. The cause of the fire is being investigated.
Jun 7, 2012 Local News
Kyushu Electric to Receive Power from Nippon Steel
Kyushu Electric Power has signed an agreement with Tokyo-headquartered Nippon Steel to receive power generated by the thermal plants jointly operated with the steelmaker during pea...
Jun 7, 2012 Local News
Regional Bridge Improvement Stalled
The need for repairs to the aging public infrastructure built during the period of high economic growth in the 60s and 70s has become a topic for public discussion. An investigatio...
Jun 7, 2012 Local News
Fukuoka Prefecture Fishery Commission Members Paid for Not Working
Nine part-time members of the Fukuoka Prefecture government’s Inland Waters Fishing Ground Management Commission were paid a total of 1.72 million yen for their services over a sev...