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Sep 25, 2025 Local News
Foreign Arrivals in Kyushu Hit Record High
The number of foreign visitors to Kyushu reached 2.93 million in the first half of 2025, surpassing...
Sep 24, 2025 Local News
Kyushu Trade Surplus Despite Auto Slump
Moji Customs reported that the Kyushu economic zone—including Okinawa and Yamaguchi—recorded a trade surplus...
Sep 24, 2025 Local News
Kyushu Output Rises on Semiconductor Demand
The Kyushu Bureau of Economy, Trade and Industry reported that July’s industrial production index rose 3.9% from June to 112.8...
Sep 18, 2025 Local News
Kyushu Lawyers Demand Probe Into DNA Test Scandal
The Kyushu Bar Federation condemned misconduct by a former Saga police forensic employee who falsified DNA test results in...
Sep 10, 2025 Local News
Record Rainfall Hits Nagasaki And Kumamoto
Linear rainbands have formed over Nagasaki and Kumamoto, triggering an emergency warning for heavy rainfall...
Sep 9, 2025 Local News
Kyushu Sees Record Minimum Wage Hikes
All eight prefectures in Kyushu and Okinawa have announced record-high minimum wage increases for FY2025 amid rising living costs and...
Sep 1, 2025 Local News
LINE to Offer Shinkansen Booking Without Credit Cards
JR Central will launch a new service on October 4 allowing passengers to book Tokaido, Sanyo, and Kyushu Shinkansen tickets through LINE without...
Aug 28, 2025 Local News
Kyushu Inbound Tourism Falls For First Time In 3.5 Years On Quake Rumors
Kyushu recorded 355,216 foreign visitors in July, a 1% year-on-year decline—the first drop in three and a half years. Officials attribute...
Aug 28, 2025 Local News
Trump Tariffs Hit Kyushu Liquor Exporters
The Fukuoka Regional Taxation Bureau held a briefing for 15 local businesses handling sake and shochu affected by additional U.S. tariffs under...
Aug 15, 2025 Local News
Shochu Sales Fall As Crop Disease Hits Kirishima
Japan’s top 50 shochu producers saw a 1.6% year-on-year decline in total sales in 2024, falling to ¥222.7 billion, according to Teikoku Databank...
