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Feb 16, 2012 Local News
Toyota to Shift SUV production from Kyushu to U.S.
Toyota Motors announced it would shift production of its Highlander sports utility vehicle from its Fukuoka Prefecture plant to a factory in the United States in the second half of...
Feb 14, 2012 Local News
City Bulletin Mar. 2012
Selected news topics by Fukuoka Now from Fukuoka's Shisei Dayori. This month: City Hall Lobby Renovation, Put out the Trash When You Move, Hakata Dontaku Special Seats, Fukuoka Cas...
Feb 9, 2012 Local News
Miyazaki City in Agreements with Condo Owners to Break Auto-Lock Doors for Disasters
Miyazaki City has started a program of forming agreements with condominium owners to permit the breakage of auto-lock doors on the condominium buildings to allow the sites to be us...
Feb 9, 2012 Local News
Large Retail Store Sales Rose in 2011
The Kyushu Bureau of Economy, Trade, and Industry issued a preliminary report on large retail store sales for 2011 that showed a year-on-year increase of 15 to 1.5611 trillion yen....
Feb 9, 2012 Local News
Mongooses Found Moving North in Kagoshima
Kagoshima Prefecture announced the finding of a mongoose, a specified alien species that has a detrimental effect on the ecology, in Satsumasendai, and thinks several might inhabit...
Feb 9, 2012 Local News
Hotto Motto to Open Bento Delivery Shop in Beijing
Fukuoka City-based Plenus, which operates the Hotto Motto bento chain, revealed it will open a bento shop in Beijing that specializes in delivery of the meals. The company plans to...
Feb 9, 2012 Local News
Yufuin Art Museum to Close
The privately owned Yufuin Art Museum in the hot springs resort town in Oita Prefecture will close at the end of March. More than 10,000 people visit the museum every year, but the...
Feb 9, 2012 Local News
Shabondama Soap Develops Solar Panel Cleaner
Kitakyushu-based Shabondama Soap has developed a solar panel cleaner for the commercial market. It is designed to be an environmentally friendly product, because the soap used cont...
Feb 9, 2012 Local News
Tenjin Shopping Facilities to Undergo Major Refurbishing
Plans are underway to refurbish this spring the IMS, Vioro, and Tenjin Vivre buildings housing specialty shops in the Fukuoka City Tenjin District. Sales at these establishments ha...