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Aug 2, 2012 Local News
Damage from Rains Exceeds 120 Billion Yen in Three Prefectures
The damage caused by the heavy rains in northern Kyushu, including to roads, rivers, and agricultural products, has climbed to 124.4 billion yen in Fukuoka, Kumamoto, and Oita pref...
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Jul 31, 2012 Local News
Nishitetsu to Open Solar Park
Nishitetsu Co. Ltd., have announced plans to build a solar power park in Chikushino City. The solar panels will be built on the roofs of the train inspection center. Nishitetsu exp...
Jul 13, 2012 Local News
Kumamoto Prefecture Signs Memorandum with Kyushu Electric Power
Kumamoto Prefecture has signed a memorandum of understanding with Kyushu Electric Power concerning the Sendai nuclear power plant in Kagoshima Prefecture. The memorandum concerns ...
Jul 13, 2012 Local News
Chinese to Receive Waste Disposal Training in Fukuoka
Fukuoka City has signed a memorandum of understanding with the Chinese government to train roughly 800 public sector employees a year in waste disposal and water conservation techn...
Jul 5, 2012 Local News
Kyushu Electric Power Sales down Second Month in a Row in May
Kyushu Electric Power reported that power sales by volume in May were down 1.3% from the year-before period to 6.458 billion kWh. That is the second consecutive year-on-year declin...
Jun 14, 2012 Local News
Sewer Sludge Used for Power Generation
The use of processed sewer sludge --- in other words, human waste --- as a biomass fuel for power generation is increasingly being used in Kyushu and throughout the nation. Kumamot...
Jun 13, 2012 Local News
Fault Lines Found Under Itoshima
Researchers at Kyushu University’s Faculty of Engineering have discovered two large changes in the fault lines under the northwest area of Itoshima. Professor Nishijima said that h...
May 24, 2012 Local News
Disaster Info Database Planned
A group of regional civil engineers, universities, and municipalities plan to create a database of disaster information for Kyushu. They have called on the Ministry of Land, Infras...
May 17, 2012 Local News
Government Calls for 12% Kyushu Power Conservation
The national government has released its proposal for power conservation this summer for all the nation’s regions. Other than for power companies in the Tokyo and Tohoku regions, t...
May 17, 2012 Local News
LED Power Control System Developed
Hakutsu Technology and Waseda University, working at Hakutsu’s headquarters in the Kitakyushu Science and Research Park, have jointly developed an automatic control system for LE...