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Sep 22, 2011 Local News
Public Wireless LAN Growing
An increasing number of public wireless LANs are being built in Kyushu, the Nishinippon Shimbun reports. In addition to LANs in shopping districts in Kitakyushu and Nagasaki Prefec...
Sep 22, 2011 Local News
Oita Bank Forms Ties with Chinese Bank
Oita Bank announced it has formed working ties with the Bank of Communications based in Shanghai, China, one of that country’s largest banks. The Oita Bank hopes to utilize the Chi...
Sep 22, 2011 Local News
Mentaiko Market Shrinking
The Fukuoka branch of Teikoku Databank released the results of its survey of the national mentaiko industry. Sales for the top 20 companies in the industry in 2010 totalled 101.61 ...
Sep 22, 2011 Local News
Kyushu Shinkansen Boosts nearby Land Values
The Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communications released the results of its national survey of land values as of July 1. The results showed a clear benefit from the opening of ...
Sep 22, 2011 Local News
Kyushu’s METI Bureau Promotes Medical Industry
The Kyushu Bureau of Economy, Trade, and Industry launched a forum to serve as a network for the medical industry, academia, and government to promote the growth of the industry in...
Sep 22, 2011 Local News
Fukuoka-Miyazaki Night Bus Service Extended
Nishi-Nippon Railroad (Nishitetsu) and Miyazaki Kotsu have decided to extend until next March the night-time bus service between Fukuoka City and Miyazaki City. Plans originally ca...
Sep 15, 2011 Local News
Independent Investigators Find Gov. Furukawa Asked Kyushu Electric to Send E-mails
An independent investigative committee released an interim report stating that Saga Prefecture Gov. Yasushi Furukawa asked Kyushu Electric Power to send e-mails supporting the resu...
Sep 15, 2011 Local News
Nagasaki City and Oita City to Form Tourism Alliance
Nagasaki City and Oita City have agreed to form a tourism alliance based on the theme of Ryoma Sakamoto. They will jointly produce television programs to promote tourism, and use i...
Sep 15, 2011 Local News
Saeki to Use Wood Chips for Power Generation
The city of Saeki in Oita Prefecture announced that Tokyo-based Sumitomo Forestry Wood Products and Fukuoka Prefecture-based Nakayama Recycle Industries will build a plant in the c...
Sep 15, 2011 Local News
More Shinkansen Runs Likely to be Added between Osaka and Kagoshima
JR Kyushu and JR West have begun examining the possibility of increasing to 20 or more from 15 the number of daily roundtrips between Osaka and Kagoshima on the Shinkansen. There h...