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Aug 20, 2012 Local News
Job Fair for Foreign Students a Success
NCB Research & Consulting tied up with a temporary employment agency World Intec Co., Ltd. and held a job fair for foreign students for the first time on Aug. 3. Fourteen comp...
Aug 20, 2012 Local News
Manga Museum Opens in Kitakyushu
The Kitakyushu Manga Museum opened Aug 3 on the 5th and 6th floors of the Aru Aru Building in Kokura. The museum contains many original drawings and panels and thousands of mangas ...
Aug 18, 2012 Local News
Toho Cinema Hisayama To Close
The Toho Cinema in the Torius Shopping Complex in Hisayama, will close its doors on Aug 31. The 14 screen cinema first opened in 1999 as a Virgin Cinema, and since then, over 8 mil...
Aug 18, 2012 Local News
Red Lobster To Open In Huis Ten Bosch, Nagasaki
The American seafood restaurant, Red Lobster, will open in the free area of Huis Ten Bosch, Nagasaki on Oct 26. It is the first Red Lobster for Kyushu. The famous Live Lobster dish...
Aug 17, 2012 Local News
Northern Kyushu Flood Stricken Area Support Event
In support of the three prefectures - Fukuoka, Kumamoto and Oita that were damaged by heavy rain, floods and landslides last month, the Nishinippon Shimbun is holding a fundraising...
Aug 17, 2012 Local News
106-year-old Returns to Fukuoka from Record Making Trip
Dr. Saburo Shochi, returned to Fukuoka Aug 16, completing his ‘Oldest Person To Make an Around-the-world Trip using only the public transportation” according to the Guinness World ...
Aug 17, 2012 Local News
Earthquake in Kumamoto and Kagoshima
At 8:46 this morning (Aug. 17) a magnitude 4.9 earthquake hit Kumamoto and Kagoshima. Some areas that felt the quake include Amakusa and Ashikita in Kumamoto Prefecture, and the Sa...
Aug 17, 2012 Local News
Record Traffic on Fukuoka Expressways
The Fukuoka-Kitakyushu Expressway Public Corporation said that traffic volume on expressways in Fukuoka City on the 13th reached 215,500 vehicles, a record high. It was a 7.86% inc...
Aug 17, 2012 Local News
Nishitetsu to Install Solar Panels at 12 Bus Stops
The Nishi-Nippon Railway Corp. (Nishitetsu) announced it will install solar power generating panels at 12 bus stops in Fukuoka City. The installation will start on the 27th and end...
Aug 17, 2012 Local News
Top 10 leading Shochu and Awamori Sales are by Kyushu Companies
The Fukuoka branch of Teikoku Databank released its data for shochu and awamori sales nationwide for the country’s 50 leading companies for FY 2011. Nationwide, sales were down 4.7...