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May 26, 2011 Local News
Saga Prefectural Assembly Doubts Genkai Plant’s Earthquake Resistance
The Saga Prefectural Assembly convened a study group with all members present to discuss the safety of the Genkai nuclear power plant with Kyushu Electric Power Vice-President Mamo...
May 26, 2011 Local News
Estimates for Nagasaki Shinkansen Construction Costs Rise 10%
The Ministry of Land, Infrastructure, and Transport revised upward by 10% their estimate for the construction costs of three areas of the Nagasaki Shinkansen line where constructio...
May 26, 2011 Local News
Nippon Steel Chemical to License Technology to Dalian Shipbuilders
The Kitakyushu Asian Center for a Low Carbon Society, which promotes the sales of Japanese environmental technology abroad, announced that Nippon Steel Chemical of Tokyo will licen...
May 26, 2011 Local News
Hydrogen Fuel Cell Scooter Trials Start in Kitakyushu
Suzuki and Nippon Steel began trials of a hydrogen fuel cell scooter, using hydrogen generated at Nippon Steel’s Yahata refinery, in Kitakyushu. It is the first trial in Japan of a...
May 26, 2011 Local News
Christian Burial Ground Discovered in Oita
The city of Usuki in Oita Prefecture announced the discovery of one of the largest Christian burial grounds in the country. The grounds were used from roughly 1580 to 1610, which c...
May 26, 2011 Local News
New Container Route to U.S. for Port of Hakata
Maersk of Denmark, the world’s largest container shipping company, began operating a new container ship route between the Port of Hakata and North America. According to Fukuoka Cit...
May 26, 2011 Local News
Kyushu Electric to Ask for 15% Power Savings
Kyushu Electric Power President Toshio Manabe said at a press conference that he would ask all consumers, including factories, office buildings, and general households, to cut powe...
May 26, 2011 Local News
New Route for Beetle
JR Kyushu Jet Ferry, which operates the Beetle jetfoils between Fukuoka City and Busan, South Korea, announced they will operate a route to Yeosu from May to August next year to co...
May 19, 2011 Local News
Genkai Power Plant Resumption of Operations Up in Air
The directors of a new committee in the Saga Prefecture Assembly to deal with safety measures for atomic power held their first meeting, during which they made arrangements to deba...
May 19, 2011 Local News
Skynet to Change Name to Solaseed Air
Skynet Asia Airways of Miyazaki City announced they will operate under the new name of Solaseed Air starting July 1, when they begin operation of new Boeing 737-800 aircraft. They ...