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Jun 7, 2012 Local News
Kumamoto City to Take Three Years to Repair Damaged Painted Folding Screen
The Contemporary Art Museum of Kumamoto in Kumamoto City borrowed some painted folding screens from the city of Konan, Kochi Prefecture, for an exhibition in July 2010. They applie...
Jun 7, 2012 Local News
Kumamoto Prefecture to Provide Financial Assistance for Entertainment Events
The government of Kumamoto Prefecture will provide financial assistance for staging large entertainment events in the prefecture, including concerts by famous artists and movie pro...
May 31, 2012 Local News
Tohoku Debris Burned at Kitakyushu Safe
The city of Kitakyushu announced the results of their trial incineration of 80 tons of debris from Miyazaki Prefecture from the 23rd to the 25th. They said the ash released by the ...
May 31, 2012 Local News
Record Number of Foreigners Enter Kyushu in March
The Kyushu Transport Bureau released figures for the number of foreigners entering Kyushu through the region’s nine airports and 31 seaports. A total of 93,388 people from overseas...
May 31, 2012 Local News
Oita City Loses Art
Oita City confirmed that it had lost or temporarily misplaced 14 works of art at city facilities. They also admitted that they failed to properly record instances of the movement o...
May 31, 2012 Local News
Kagoshima Prefecture to Invest in Small Hydroelectric Generation
A committee consisting of the chief municipal officers of local governments and other people in Kagoshima Prefecture has presented a plan for constructing small hydroelectric gener...
May 31, 2012 Local News
Color Film of Nagasaki Hibakusha Discovered
The Nagasaki Medical Practitioners Association screened color films taken from October to November 1945 of a team of American doctors examining people injured in the Nagasaki atomi...
May 31, 2012 Local News
Kagoshima NPO Establishes Website for ATL Patients
A Kagoshima City NPO commonly known as Smile Ribbon has established ATL Net, a website for people with adult T-cell leukemia and HTLV-1-associated myelopathy, which are caused by H...
May 24, 2012 Local News
Seibu House to Build Condo with Medical Mall
Fukuoka City-based condo developer Seibu House plans to build a condominium for the elderly that will have offices for enterprises offering long-term care service providers, as wel...
May 24, 2012 Local News
Citizens Block Trial Burning of Tohoku Debris in Kitakyushu
A trial burning of the debris from Ishinomaki, Miyagi Prefecture, generated during last year’s earthquake and tsunami, was temporarily halted by about 30 area residents. Six truck...