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Jan 22, 2014 Local News
Ride a Bus with Kumamon
Miyazaki-based bus company Miyazaki Kotsu has launched a “ride-with-Kumamon” service on its Kumamoto-Miyazaki highway bus route. Available on seven of the company’s 14 daily round-...
Jan 21, 2014 Local News
Applications Open: Japanese Karaoke Show for Foreigners
Applications are open for the “Karaoke Show for Foreigners in Fukuoka” at the Momochihama Spring Festival on 2/2 (Sun.) 14:00~16:00 at TNC Building. A total of 15 foreigners who ca...
Jan 20, 2014 Local News
Kyushu Pollen Forecast 2014
The Japan Meteorological Agency (JMA) announced this year’s pollen forecast for Japanese cedar (sugi) and Japanese cypress (hinoki) - and it isn’t bad news for hayfever sufferers! ...
Jan 20, 2014 Local News
Seaside Momochi to Become Universal Beach
Momochi Seaside Park, the 31.3 ha beach park that straddles Sawara and Chuo Wards, will become wheelchair-accessible in 2014, the 25th anniversary of its opening. The urban beach a...
Jan 16, 2014 Local News
How Much Ramen Do Fukuokans Eat?
If you live in Fukuoka and eat tonkotsu ramen any less than 41 times a year, you’re not trying hard enough! Gcom surveyed Fukuoka locals online about how often they eat local speci...
Jan 16, 2014 Local News
Nagasaki Seeks to Upgrade Rocks, Clarify EEZ
On Jan. 10 Goto City in Nagasaki Prefecture mailed an application to the Geospatial Information Authority of Japan to change the name of three sets of rocks (iwa) near Japan’s mari...
Jan 16, 2014 Local News
Toyota Tests Fuel Cell Bus
Toyota Motor Kyushu started a trial run of a zero emission fuel cell bus on Jan. 10. The bus will make four daily round-trips between Kyushu University’s Ito Campus and JR Kyudai G...
Jan 16, 2014 Local News
More Research Needed on PM2.5
Winter is the time of year when Japan is most to susceptible to the fine particulates known as PM 2.5 that blow in from China. The government has bolstered its countermeasures by h...
Jan 10, 2014 Local News
New Law to Reduce Taxi Numbers
On Jan. 27, the Japanese government is set to pass the Act on Special Measures concerning the Normalization and Reinvigoration of Taxi Businesses in an effort to curb excessive com...
Jan 9, 2014 Local News
More Kyushu Towns Helping Ex-Cons Find Work
More and more municipalities in Kyushu are starting to give preferential treatment in bids for public works projects to employers that hire ex-offenders. According to the Ministry...