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Aug 25, 2011 Local News
Shin-Tosu Station wins Brunel Award
The Association of American Railroads and the International Union of Railways (UIC) announced that 43 projects from 11 nations received recognition for design excellence in the 201...
Aug 25, 2011 Local News
Tsuchiya-SS to Build Oita Plant
Tsuchiya-SS, a Kanagawa Prefecture-based company that coats auto parts, has begun negotiations with the city of Bungotakada in Oita Prefecture to build a new plant there. The compa...
Aug 25, 2011 Local News
Early August Shinkansen Use Soars
JR Kyushu revealed that 248,000 people used the Shinkansen line between the Kagoshima Chuo and Kumamoto stations from August 1-14, a 179% increase from the previous year. The figur...
Aug 25, 2011 Local News
New Ticket Plans for Sea Travel to Busan
JR Kyushu Jet Ferry and the Camellia Line, both of Fukuoka City, will launch sales on September 1 of a new round trip ticket good for two days from Monday to Thursday. The objectiv...
Aug 25, 2011 Local News
Kyushu’s Primary Companies Take Big Hit from Tohoku Earthquake
An examination of the business results for 25 primary Kyushu companies in the first quarter of the current fiscal year to determine the impact of the Tohoku earthquake shows that 4...
Aug 25, 2011 Local News
QTNet to Offer Gigabyte-Level Service
Kyushu Telecommunication Network of Fukuoka City announced it will offer an upgrade of its optical broadband service with a ten-fold increase in speed to one gigabyte starting Dece...
Aug 18, 2011 Local News
Kyushu Shinkansen Rate Cut Mulled for Stations Close to Fukuoka
JR Kyushu released the daily average ridership totals for each station for the April – June quarter. While the totals for the Shin-Minamata and Kagoshima Chuo stations matched or e...
Aug 18, 2011 Local News
Kagoshima Becoming a Popular Tourist Destination
Kagoshima Prefecture has become a very popular tourist destination in Kyushu this summer, the Nishinippon Shimbun reports. The opening of the Kyushu Shinkansen has made access easi...
Aug 18, 2011 Local News
Projected Kyushu Capital Investment Down 14%
The Kyushu branch of the Development Bank of Japan released its survey of trends for planned capital investment by large and mid-size corporations nationwide in the seven Kyushu pr...
Aug 18, 2011 Local News
Nishitetsu Mulls Export of Bus Operating System
Nishi-Nippon Railway (Nishitetsu) is studying the feasibility of exporting its route bus operation management system to the developing countries of Southeast Asia. It has already s...