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Jan 28, 2022 Local News
Gasoline Prices Near ¥180/l in Kagoshima and Nagasaki
Gasoline prices around Kyushu are soaring. As of Jan. 24, Nagasaki Prefecture recorded Japan’s highest average price of ¥177.5/l. Kagoshima also hit an average price of ¥177.0/l. P...
Jan 26, 2022 Local News
Metaverse Program Used on Construction Site in Kyushu
MLIT’s Kyushu Regional Development Bureau achieved the first application of metaverse in civil engineering. The newly developed system leverages a 3D gaming model to create realist...
Jan 26, 2022 Local News
Kyuden Group Company Invests In UAE Undersea Cable Project
Two companies belonging to the Kyushu Electric Power (Kyuden) group have invested in an undersea cable development project in UAE. The program would install two undersea cables to ...
Jan 18, 2022 Local News
Restrictions For Three Prefectures In Kyushu Impending
In an effort to slow down the surging spread of the Omicron variant, ‘mann-enn boushi to juten sochi’ program is expected to begin in three Kyushu prefectures. The national governm...
Jan 12, 2022 Local News
Sapporo Sakura Beer Production Resumes in Kyushu
Sapporo Breweries Ltd. announced the revival of Sapporo Sakura Beer. For over eighty years since its first release in 1913, Sakura Beer was produced at a factory in Moji Ward (Kita...
Dec 24, 2021 Local News
JR Kyushu Converts 29 More Stations To Unmanned Stations
Twenty-nine JR stations in Kyushu will be converted to unmanned stations by March 2022. JR Kyushu recently revealed the names of those stations, including nine in Fukuoka Prefectur...
Dec 24, 2021 Local News
‘Kyushu wari’ Discounts For Kyushu Extended
Another tourism discount program for the Kyushu region will launch in January 2022. The ‘Kyushu-wari’ discount program would be organized by Kyushu’s seven prefectures and travel a...
Dec 17, 2021 Local News
J-Startup Kyushu To Launch Next March
The Kyushu Bureau of Economy, Trade, and Industry has launched J-Startup Kyushu, an organization to facilitate government-company collaboration in promoting the creation of local s...
Dec 17, 2021 Local News
Snowfall Forecasted For Northern Kyushu
Snow might fall in some parts of northern Kyushu tomorrow morning, Dec. 18. The Japan Meteorological Agency forecast strong wintery air to cover the region in the afternoon of Dec....
Dec 14, 2021 Local News
Kyushu-Okinawa Food Businesses Post Decreased Sales
The Fukuoka branch of Teikoku Databank announced the sales ranking for Kyushu and Okinawa-based restaurant businesses for the fiscal year of 2020. A record number (35) of the top 5...
