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Jul 7, 2011 Local News
Takeo Forbids Overtime to Save Electricity
The city of Takeo in Saga Prefecture has prohibited all its employees from engaging in overtime work for two months from July 1 to cut back on electricity use. City officials think...
Jul 7, 2011 Local News
Kumamoto Enacts First Kyushu Law Banning Discrimination against Disabled
The Kumamoto Prefecture assembly became the first government in Kyushu to pass a law banning discrimination against the disabled. The law, which goes into effect next April, create...
Jul 7, 2011 Local News
Yahoo Kitakyushu Data Center to Expand
Yahoo Japan announced it will enlarge its Asian Frontier data center in Kitakyushu starting this summer. The center already has about 40,000 Internet servers on the site. The compa...
Jul 7, 2011 Local News
Karatsu and Kyushu U. to Study Eel and Mackerel Cultivation
The city of Karatsu and Kyushu University signed an agreement to jointly pursue research in the cultivation of conger eels and mackerel. The objective is to promote the fisheries i...
Jul 7, 2011 Local News
Kyushu’s Oldest Pipe Organ to be Dismantled
The oldest pipe organ in Kyushu, at the Seinan Gakuin Baptist Church in Fukuoka City, will be dismantled next month when the church is rebuilt. The organ was build in Virginia in t...
Jul 7, 2011 Local News
Property Values Rise Only in Fukuoka City
The National Tax Agency released their assessments of property values nationwide for the purposes of calculating inheritance and gift taxes. The property values for Kyushu as a who...
Jul 7, 2011 Local News
Aeon to Open 200 Cycle Shops in Kyushu
Aeon Cycle Shop, Aeon Kyushu’s unit for bicycle sales, announced it has changed its name to Aeon Bike and plans to open 200 shops in Kyushu by 2016 as part of the overall group exp...
Jul 7, 2011 Local News
Aeon Group to Operate Farm in Oita
Chiba-based Aeon Agri Create, an Aeon group member that operates five farms in the Kanto area, announced it will begin direct operation of a farm in Kokonoe-machi, Oita Prefecture,...
Jul 1, 2011 Local News
City Bulletin Jul. 2011
Selected news topics by Fukuoka Now from Fukuoka's Shisei Dayori. This month: ¥1,000 Fukuoka Night Cruises, Terrestrial Digital Broadcasts Begin July 24 and more...
Jun 30, 2011 Local News
Toyota Kyushu Plant Cited as One of the World’s Best
As a result of a review of 142 auto production plants worldwide, the global marketing information services firm J.D. Power and Associates has given the Toyota Kyushu #2 line in Miy...