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Apr 12, 2012 Local News
New Supercomputer for Kyushu U.
The Kyushu University Research Institute for Information Technology will acquire one of the world’s fastest supercomputers and start using it in July, it was announced.
Apr 12, 2012 Local News
Kyushu Broadband Diffusion Ratio Lags National Average
The Kyushu Bureau of Telecommunications released its report on the diffusion ratio of broadband circuits in the region.
Apr 12, 2012 Local News
Plant for Converting Sewage Sludge to Fuel to be Build in Nagasaki
Mitsubishi Nagasaki Machinery, the Nagasaki Institute of Applied Science, and Nagasaki City announced they will build a plant in the city to process sewage sludge into solid fuel u...
Apr 12, 2012 Local News
Three JR Companies Sell Joint Rail Passes to Foreigners
JR Kyushu, JR West Japan, and JR Shikoku announced the launch of sales of the JR Sanyo-Shikoku-Kyushu Rail Pass for foreigners for use on the trains it operates, including the Shin...
Apr 12, 2012 Local News
Bank of Fukuoka Launches Securities Subsidiary
The Bank of Fukuoka has converted securities company Maeda Shoken into a wholly owned subsidiary and changed its name to Fukuoka Securities.
Apr 12, 2012 Local News
“Typhoon” Furniture Store Opens in Okawa
On Apr. 10, south-east asian luxury furniture store ‘Typhoon’ opened a store in Okawa City, Fukuoka. The Thai government wishes to sell their domestic furniture in Japan. The Okawa...
Apr 5, 2012 Local News
Kumamoto City Becomes Government Ordinance City
Kumamoto City officially became a “government-ordinance city” on April 1, giving it some of the governmental authority of a Japanese prefecture. It is the 10th such city nationwide...
Apr 5, 2012 Local News
First Rise in New Kyushu Factory Placements in Four Years
The Kyushu Bureau of Economy, Trade, and Industry released a preliminary report on the number of new factory placements in Kyushu in 2011. There were 91 such instances, a rise of s...
Apr 5, 2012 Local News
Dial 110 for Hand Grenade Alerts
The Fukuoka police became the first police department in the country to institute a hot line for tips on hand grenades. The police will pay 100,000 yen for each hand grenades found...
Apr 5, 2012 Local News
Sharp Rise in Regional Sales of Health Food Products
The Fukuoka branch of Teikoku Databank revealed the results of its survey of the sales of the 50 top companies in the health food business in the Kyushu – Okinawa region in FY 2010...