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Aug 9, 2013 Local News
Munakata-made Ultra-compact Cars OK’D
Munakata-based venture company Kobot has received approval from the Kyushu Transportation Bureau for its ultra-compact two-person electric vehicle under the government’s Micro-Mobi...
Aug 8, 2013 Local News
Hand-foot-mouth Outbreak Sweeps Japan
There is a nationwide outbreak of hand, foot and mouth disease among Japanese infants and toddlers. According to statistics compiled by the National Institute of Infectious Disease...
Aug 7, 2013 Local News
Domestic Visitors to Kyushu Decline
According to a domestic visitor survey conducted by Tokyo-based Recruit Lifestyle, the number of visitors to the seven prefectures of Kyushu fell 580,000 to 17.22 million year-on-y...
Aug 7, 2013 Local News
Tamaya Returns to Fukuoka
Sasebo-based retailer Sasebo Tamaya announced plans to open five or six Rose Essence Tamaya stores in Fukuoka over the next five years. The first shop, which was opened as a so-cal...
Aug 7, 2013 Local News
Welfare Benefits Outstrip Minimum Wage Salaries in Fukuoka
According to calculations released by the Fukuoka Labor Bureau on Aug. 5, the take-home pay of a person working at the nationally-mandated prefectural minimum wage in the cities of...
Aug 6, 2013 Local News
Softbank Enters Energy Game
The Tokyo-based SoftBank Group plans to begin selling electricity, and the US-made fuel cells it will use for its new venture arrived in Fukuoka on Aug. 2. The cells will be instal...
Aug 6, 2013 Local News
Nishi-ku Developer Scraps Plans, Builds Spring Water Station
Itoko Shindo, a real estate developer who had planned to build an apartment building in Nishi-ku, abruptly decided to build a water filling station after potable hot spring water w...
Aug 6, 2013 Local News
Kurume to Sell Power Made from Sludge Gas
Starting in FY 2014, Kurume City will begin using methane and other digester gases produced during the wastewater treatment process to generate electricity. Kurume will make use of...
Aug 2, 2013 Local News
Kyuden Still in the Red
In its consolidated financial statement for the period from April to June 2013 released on July 31, Kyushu Electric Power Company reported a net loss of ¥59.15 billion. Due to cost...
Aug 2, 2013 Local News
Sake from Yame Takes Top Honors
Kotaru Kinoshita, president of Yame-based sake brewery Kitaya, visited Governor Ogawa at the Fukuoka Prefectural Office on July 31 to report that his Daiginjo Gokujo Kitaya was nam...