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Jun 23, 2011 Local News
Greater Choices for Fukuoka – Haneda Flights Next Month
The Kitakyushu-based airline Starflyer will begin offering five daily roundtrips between Fukuoka Airport and Haneda in Tokyo on July 1, which will bring to four the number of carri...
Jun 23, 2011 Local News
Kyushu Electric Losing Customers to Alternatives
Kyushu Electric Power revealed that new entrants into the power supply industry had been able to capture a total of 1,619 power supply contracts from the utility as of April 1. It ...
Jun 23, 2011 Local News
Free Ring Route Bus Service Starts in Miyawaka
Transport company Seishin Butsuryu, based in Miyawaka, Fukuoka Prefecture, began operation of a free bus service that shuttles between area supermarkets. The objective is to provid...
Jun 23, 2011 Local News
Ten Fukuoka Companies Joint Busan Business Conference
Ten companies from Fukuoka participated in a business promotion conference held by the Busan Chamber of Commerce and Industry in that city that ended on the 18th. The companies wer...
Jun 23, 2011 Local News
Discharge Volume at 23 Regional Ports Rises
The Kyushu Transport Bureau announced statistics for the volume of goods unloaded at 23 designated ports in Kyushu and Yamaguchi Prefecture in FY 2010 climbed 14.6% from the previo...
Jun 23, 2011 Local News
Shinkansen Boosts Kyushu Rail Traffic
JR Kyushu released figures for the first three months of Kyushu Shinkansen operation showing large increases in the number of rail passengers compared to the totals when only speci...
Jun 23, 2011 Local News
Device for Generating Active Oxygen Water Developed
The Kitakyushu Science and Research Park venture capital-backed company K2R has developed the first device in Japan capable of the stable creation of active oxygen in water. Active...
Jun 23, 2011 Local News
Konoha Hashimoto Mall Exceeds Expectations
Developer Fukuoka Jisho, operator of the new Konoha Hashimoto Mall in Fukuoka City, reports the mall is more successful than they anticipated when it opened two months ago. The mal...
Jun 23, 2011 Local News
Kyushu Tourism Magazine Debuts in China
The Kyushu Tourism Promotion Association announced that a Shanghai publisher of free newspapers started publishing in May a monthly magazine in China focusing on Kyushu. The magazi...
Jun 23, 2011 Local News
Device for Generating Active Oxygen Water Developed
The Kitakyushu Science and Research Park venture capital-backed company K2R has developed the first device in Japan capable of the stable creation of active oxygen in water. Active...