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Sep 4, 2020 Local News
Transportation Cancellations Announced for Fukuoka As Typhoon Nears
As powerful Typhoon Haishen approaches Kyushu, some transportation companies have announced service cancellations. Fukuoka City Subway will suspend operation on Sep. 7, between Me...
Sep 4, 2020 Local News
Extremely Strong Typhoon Heading Towards Fukuoka – Warnings Issued
Typhoon Haishen is expected to hit northern Kyushu between Sep 6 to 7. The powerful typhoon, which is now moving over Japan’s southern sea, continues to intensify in power. Officia...
Sep 4, 2020 Local News
Kurume Companies Win 2020 World Label Competition with Sake Bottle Label
Kurume-based printing company Maru-shin and sake brewery Wakatakeya took home the Best of the Best award in the combination printing category at the 31st World Label Competition in...
Sep 4, 2020 Local News
Fabbit Opens New Coworking Space in Munakata
Tokyo-based Fabbit, a coworking space operator that is part of the Apaman Group, has opened a new space in Munakata City. The space, the fifth in the prefecture, is housed in a ren...
Sep 4, 2020 Local News
Startup Support Center Completed in Koga City
A startup support center housed in a renovated vacant shop in the shopping arcade outside the west exit of JR Koga Station has been completed. Dubbed Create Space Miraco, the cente...
Sep 4, 2020 Local News
LINE Fukuoka to Expand its B2G Platform Nationwide
LINE Fukuoka, which has developed a business-to-government (B2G) service platform for Fukuoka City, will begin offering its services to local governments throughout Japan. LINE and...
Sep 4, 2020 Local News
Office Building to Occupy Site of the Former Hakata Star Lanes
NTT Urban Development and Taisei Corporation have begun construction on the Hakata Ekimae 1-Chome Development Project in Hakata Ward. The two companies will build a 10-story buildi...
Sep 4, 2020 Local News
Fukuoka’s Leading Restaurants Collaborate on Luxurious Delivered Meal
Seven of Fukuoka’s trendsetting restaurants have collaborated to develop Hakata Kaikai; a luxury delivery-meal set available inside Fukuoka City. Inside a reusable container are ni...
Sep 4, 2020 Local News
Record Low Condominium Sales in Kyushu
According to a Fukuoka-based housing market-research company, Jutaku Ryutsu Shimposha, the number of apartment sales in Kyushu between January to June dropped by 27.6% from the sam...
Sep 4, 2020 Local News
Kyuden Launches Drone and AI Based Forest Management Service
On September 1, Kyushu Electric Power debuted a new forestry analysis service for local governments. By combining a drone-based forestry survey scheme and an AI-based analyzation s...