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Oct 26, 2012 Local News
Trial First in Regional Retail Company Rankings
The Fukuoka branch of Tokyo Shoko Research released its rankings of retail companies by sales in the Kyushu-Okinawa region for FY 2011. Fukuoka City-based Trial Company was at the...
Oct 26, 2012 Local News
Kyushu Group Develops New Rice Variety
The Kyushu-Okinawa Agricultural Research Center of the National Agricultural and Food Research Organization has developed a new strain of rice it calls tachiharuka. The new rice is...
Oct 26, 2012 Local News
Starflyer to Operate Kitakyushu-Guam Flights
Kitakyushu-based Starflyer revealed it plans to operate flights from the Kitakyushu Airport to Guam and Saipan starting next summer. As of now, it is expected that these will be c...
Oct 26, 2012 Local News
Kurume Yakitori Goes to Busan
The Kurume Yakitori Culture Promotion Association, formed to promote the city’s yakitori restaurants, had a stall in an international exchange event in Busan, South Korea, on the 2...
Oct 25, 2012 Local News
Zoo and More Green Spots – Free on Oct. 28
Every October, the Ministry of Land, Infrastructure, Transport and Tourism holds an “Urban Tree Planting Campaign”. As part of this year’s campaign, the City will open five outdoor...
Oct 25, 2012 Local News
Rental Bikes Prove Popular
Launched in August, “Seaside Bike” is a joint trial bike rental project between Fukuoka City and Softbank Hawks Marketing Co. Ltd. 100 bikes were made available to rent from five r...
Oct 24, 2012 Local News
Asian Digital Art Awards – Apply Before 10/31
The Asian Digital Art Awards (ADAA), established in Fukuoka in 2001, is holding its annual competition to present works that integrate logic with aesthetics using media technology....
Oct 24, 2012 Local News
Tickets on Sale 10/27 – Cirque Éloize 2013
The award-winning Cirque Éloize has announced that performances of their 7th original production ‘iD’ will be held in Fukuoka next February. Tickets go on sale from 10/27. Cirque É...
Oct 23, 2012 Local News
Demo Against Debris from East Japan
On Oct 21, 100 people demonstrated against debris from the Great East Japan Earthquake being accepted by Kitakyushu City. The demand of the demonstrators is to stop accepting and c...
Oct 23, 2012 Local News
Demo Held Against USA Osprey
On Oct 21, 300 people demonstrated in Tenjin against the introduction of the MV 22 Osprey Aircraft to Okinawa. After the official demonstration, a petition was submitted to the Ame...