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Feb 23, 2012 Local News
Daiei to Introduce Internet Supermarket
Daiei announced it will introduce an Internet supermarket in two Fukuoka City stores this spring. It would enable shoppers to select the items they want to purchase over the Intern...
Feb 23, 2012 Local News
Hakata Hankyu to Bring in More than 30 New Shops
Hakata Hankyu, the department store located in the JR Hakata Station Building, revealed that it plans a remodeling program to allow them to bring in more than 30 specialty shops to...
Feb 23, 2012 Local News
Year’s First Watermelon Shipments from Kumamoto
The year’s first watermelon shipment was sent from Ueki-machi in Kumamoto Prefecture, the area that produces the most watermelons in Japan. The 2,800 melons were grown in greenhous...
Feb 23, 2012 Local News
Camellia Oil to be Used for Goto Promotion
Nagasaki Prefecture has announced a tie-up with cosmetics manufacturer Shiseido to use the popular hair care brand Tsubaki, which has camellia oil from Goto as one of the ingredien...
Feb 9, 2012 Local News
Fukuoka Prefecture to Provide 600 Million Yen to Cancer Facility
Fukuoka Prefecture announced it will provide 600 million yen to a new advanced cancer treatment center under construction in Tosu, Saga Prefecture, to purchase medical equipment. T...
Feb 9, 2012 Local News
Yufuin Art Museum to Close
The privately owned Yufuin Art Museum in the hot springs resort town in Oita Prefecture will close at the end of March. More than 10,000 people visit the museum every year, but the...
Feb 9, 2012 Local News
Mongooses Found Moving North in Kagoshima
Kagoshima Prefecture announced the finding of a mongoose, a specified alien species that has a detrimental effect on the ecology, in Satsumasendai, and thinks several might inhabit...
Feb 9, 2012 Local News
Miyazaki City in Agreements with Condo Owners to Break Auto-Lock Doors for Disasters
Miyazaki City has started a program of forming agreements with condominium owners to permit the breakage of auto-lock doors on the condominium buildings to allow the sites to be us...
Feb 2, 2012 Local News
Admission Fee Mulled for Yakushima Visits
The municipal government of Yakushima-cho on the island of Yakushima, part of Kagoshima Prefecture, will launch a special committee in April to consider the possibility of charging...
Feb 2, 2012 Local News
Kyushu Condo Market Moves into Positive Territory
Fukuoka City-based Jutaku Ryutsu Shimposha, which surveys the regional condominium market, reported that the market in the seven Kyushu prefectures in 2011 showed growth for the fi...