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Jun 14, 2012 Local News
Protester Behavior Prevents Discussion at Kitakyushu Meeting
The city of Kitakyushu convened a town meeting to enable Mayor Kenji Kitahashi to explain to the citizens the policy of accepting rubble from the Tohoku area for incineration local...
Jun 7, 2012 Local News
Fukuoka Prefecture Conducts First Nuclear Power Accident Drill
Fukuoka Prefecture conducted its first ever nuclear power accident drill. It was based on the premise of a Fukushima-type accident occurring at the Kyushu Electric Power nuclear re...
Jun 3, 2012 Local News
Fukuoka Population on the Rise
According to a Fukuoka City survey, the population of Fukuoka is increasing. The current population of Fukuoka city is 1,480,000, making it the 6th most populated government ordina...
May 26, 2012 Local News
HIV and AIDS Cases on The Rise
May 3, 2012 Local News
Kitakyushu Receives Orders for Water Supply Business from Two New Cambodian Cities
The city of Kitakyushu already has agreements for providing technological and infrastructural assistance to nine Cambodian cities for water supply and sewage systems, and they will...
May 3, 2012 Local News
Fukuoka Municipality to Resume Saturday Classes
Ashiya-machi in Fukuoka Prefecture will restore Saturday classes in the municipality’s three primary schools and one junior high school starting on May 12.
Apr 12, 2012 Local News
New Supercomputer for Kyushu U.
The Kyushu University Research Institute for Information Technology will acquire one of the world’s fastest supercomputers and start using it in July, it was announced.
Apr 5, 2012 Local News
Shift in School Trips to Kyushu
Since the Tohoku disaster last year, public junior high schools in the Kinki region have been shifting the destinations of their school trips from the Kanto area to Kyushu. The inf...
Mar 23, 2012 Local News
Sharp Increase in Companies Moving from Tokyo to Kyushu
The Fukuoka office of Teikoku Databank released the results of its survey of companies that moved their headquarters either to or away from the Kyushu/Okinawa region in 2011. While...