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Aug 23, 2012 Local News
Halal Trade Fair to be Held in Fukuoka City
A trade fair featuring food products produced in accordance with halal dietary regulations will be held next February in Fukuoka City, the Nishinippon Shimbun reported. The objecti...
Aug 23, 2012 Local News
Japan-South Korean Forum Postponed
A Japan-South Korea Forum with participants from both countries scheduled to begin on the 29th in Fukuoka City with participants from both countries has been postponed at the reque...
Aug 23, 2012 Local News
Megasolar School Popular with Students
Kitakyushu City-based Shibaura Holdings opened the first large school in the nation in Omuta in March for training technicians to build megasolar power plants. They’ve been pleased...
Aug 23, 2012 Local News
Kyushu Land Transactions Rise
The Kyushu Economic Research Center in Fukuoka City has compiled a report on land transactions in the seven Kyushu prefectures in the January – March quarter this year. Transaction...
Aug 23, 2012 Local News
University of Kitakyushu Signs Academic Exchange Agreements
The University of Kitakyushu has signed academic exchange agreements with the Chinese Management and Marketing School of the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, and the...
Aug 23, 2012 Local News
Regional Banks in Tie-ups with Other Companies to Support Overseas SMBE Expansion
The Nishinippon Shimbun reports that regional banks from Kyushu are increasingly forming business ties with companies in the non-life insurance and distribution sectors to provide ...
Aug 23, 2012 Local News
Peach and Other Airlines Announce More Kyushu Flights
On Aug. 21 Peach Aviation announced increases to their flights schedules connecting Kyushu and other domestic airports fo rthe period Oct. 28 to Mar. 30, 2013. Currently they opera...
Aug 23, 2012 Local News
Haircut Fundraiser for Chernobyl Victims
On Aug. 27, a fundraising event will be held at the fashion studio of the Omula Beauty College in Daimyo. The ¥1,500 haircuts will be given by volunteer hairdressers from salons ar...
Aug 22, 2012 Local News
Syndicated Crime Headquarter Bombed in Kurume
On Aug. 21, at two in the morning an explosive was thrown into the headquarters of the organized crime syndicate Dozin-kai located in Kurume, Fukuoka. The building door’s glass was...
Aug 22, 2012 Local News
STOP! Drinking & Driving
In 2006, Fukuoka was devastated by the news of an accident in Higashi-ku involving the death of three young children, due to drink driving. The incident involved a young City Hall ...