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Jan 25, 2019 Local News
Nishitetsu Announces New Hotel Project for Dazaifu
Nishi-Nippon Railroad Co Ltd. announced on Jan. 24 plans to open a new hotel in Dazaifu City in the summer of 2019 by renovating traditional wooden Japanese townhouses. Three build...
Jan 23, 2019 Local News
JR Kyushu Reveals Plans for Expansion in Hakata
JR Kyushu announced that it is considering to increases the number of floors their JR Hakata City complex. A plan to construct a new level above the platforms of the regular JR tr...
Jan 21, 2019 Local News
Aeon Collaborates with Kamimine Town for Redevelopment
Kamimine Town in Saga Prefecture and Aeon Kyushu agreed to collaborate on a redevelopment project after the closing of Aeon Kamimine in February. The shopping mall's 39,000 square ...
Jan 18, 2019 Local News
Kickboard Share Project Gets Fukuoka City Support
A kickboard share project by AnyPay Inc. was selected as a test project with support from Fukuoka City. The city has supported other AI and IoT experiments which aim to improve or ...
Jan 17, 2019 Local News
Kyushu-Okinawa Bankruptcies Up
The Fukuoka branch of Tokyo Shoko Research has reported that the number of corporate bankruptcies with at least ¥10 million in liabilities was 637 in Kyushu-Okinawa area in 2018, a...
Jan 10, 2019 Local News
IMS Building to close in 2021
Mitsubishi Estate announced on January 9 that they plan to close the IMS (Inter Media Station) building in 2021. The facility opened in 1989 and is located in Tenjin, Fukuoka City...
Dec 19, 2018 Local News
Plans For New Flight Path Between Laos and Fukuoka
Lao Airlines' proposal to establish a regular flight that links Vientiane and Narita via Nagasaki Airport have encountered difficulties. The company had been looking at launching t...
Dec 19, 2018 Local News
Plans to Open Nagasaki Airport 24 Hours a Day
Plans to open Nagasaki Airport for 24 hours a day by 2020 were presented to the prefectural assembly. The aim is to increase the number of people using the facility and tourists vi...
Dec 18, 2018 Local News
Chinese Company Looking to Invest in Huis Ten Bosch
HIS are discussing the possibility of accepting an offer from a Chinese investment company for a significant stake in Huis Ten Bosch. Fosun International is interested in purchasin...
Dec 17, 2018 Local News
Lipton Tea Stand Opened in Fukuoka
A Lipton Tea Stand opened in Hakata Marui on December 6 as its third such cafe in Japan. The cafe, which previously ran as a pop-up shop in Tokyo and Osaka, enjoyed enormous popula...