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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...
May 24, 2012 Local News
Chinese Solar Cell Manufacturer Launches Fukuoka Subsidiary
Solar cell manufacturer Hareon Solar of Jiangyin, China, established and began operating a subsidiary in Fukuoka City. They were interested in opening a business in Japan with the ...
May 24, 2012 Local News
Kyushu Energy Conservation Target: 10%
The government revealed its final plan for electric power consumption this summer on the premise that nuclear power plants will not be operating. The original target of a 12% cutba...
May 17, 2012 Local News
12,000 Kyushu Households with Poor TV reception
The Kyushu Bureau of Telecommunications released a report on the difficulty of terrestrial digital television reception in the region’s mountainous areas. The bureau said such hou...
May 14, 2012 Local News
2012 Yamakasa Guide
For the first time in two years, the Hakata Gion Yamakasa Promotion Association has released a Yamakasa Guide, in the lead-up to this 2012 Yamakasa Fetsival. The 80-page guide incl...