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May 24, 2012 Local News
99 Saganet Wins Ministry Award
A system in Saga Prefecture in which ambulance personnel use iPads to determine the nearest hospital that can accept emergency patients, popularly known as 99 Saganet, has won the ...
May 21, 2012 Local News
Italian Cruise Ship Arrives in Hakata
The “Costa Victoria”, an Italian cruise ship, docked at Hakata Port yesterday (May 20) for the first time! The ship belongs to Italian cruise company Costa Cruises and is around 25...
May 17, 2012 Local News
12,000 Kyushu Households with Poor TV reception
The Kyushu Bureau of Telecommunications released a report on the difficulty of terrestrial digital television reception in the region’s mountainous areas. The bureau said such hou...
May 17, 2012 Local News
Government Calls for 12% Kyushu Power Conservation
The national government has released its proposal for power conservation this summer for all the nation’s regions. Other than for power companies in the Tokyo and Tohoku regions, t...
May 17, 2012 Local News
Kitakyushu Bank Turns Profit in Six Months
The Yamaguchi Financial Group announced the financial results for the Kitakyushu Bank for the year ended March 2012. Though the bank had been in operation only six months, they ach...
May 17, 2012 Local News
Starflyer Plans to Expand Asian Routes
Kitakyushu-based airline Starflyer presented to the public its midterm operating plan, which calls for the expansion of its overseas flights from Kitakyushu, Fukuoka, and Tokyo. Th...
May 17, 2012 Local News
LED Power Control System Developed
Hakutsu Technology and Waseda University, working at Hakutsu’s headquarters in the Kitakyushu Science and Research Park, have jointly developed an automatic control system for LE...
May 17, 2012 Local News
Kyushu Electric Looking for Power Reductions of More than 5%
Kyushu Electric power has confirmed that it will seek reductions in power consumption of at least 5%. A government committee predicted that if the nuclear power reactors aren’t res...
May 17, 2012 Local News
Tarumizu Amberjack Exports to Macao Begin
The fishery cooperative in Tarumizu, Kagoshima Prefecture, breeds the largest volume of amberjack in Japan. The cooperative began exports of the amberjack to Macao, China, earlier ...
May 17, 2012 Local News
Regional Large Retail Store Sales Rise First Time in 12 Year
The Kyushu Bureau of Economy, Trade, and Industry revealed that aggregate sales for the 25 department stores and 429 supermarkets in the Kyushu/Okinawa Prefecture region in FY 201...