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Jun 2, 2011 Local News
Tourism Offensive to be Conducted Overseas
To offset the sharp downturn in foreign tourism caused by the Tohoku earthquake and the nuclear accident at Fukushima, the Kyushu Transport Bureau and the Kyushu Tourism Promotion ...
Jun 2, 2011 Local News
Zenrosai Concentrates Western Japan Call Center Operations in Fukuoka City
Zenrosai, the National Federation of Workers and Consumers Insurance Cooperatives, has established a call center in Fukuoka City to concentrate those operations for the west Japan ...
Jun 2, 2011 Local News
Eight Fukuoka-Kumamoto Express Round-Trip Bus Runs Added
The Nishi-Nippon Railway Co. (Nishitetsu) of Fukuoka City and Kyushu Sanko Bus of Kumamoto City added eight new round-trips bus trips between the two cities on June 1 to the runs t...
Jun 2, 2011 Local News
Foreigner Entry in Kyushu Down by Half in March
The Immigration Bureau released statistics on the number of foreigners entering and leaving Kyushu for the month of March. The statistics for entry showed a 48.9% drop from the yea...
Jun 2, 2011 Local News
Fukuoka Children’s Hospital to be Built on Artificial Island
Fukuoka City Mayor Soichiro Takashima announced that the municipal children’s hospital will be moved to Island City, the artificial island in Higashi Ward, in accordance with initi...
Jun 2, 2011 Local News
Nagasaki U. Team to Purify Bay
A research team from Nagasaki University will place a hose on the bottom of Omura Bay in Nagasaki Prefecture to pump in air and ameliorate the bay’s severe oxygen deficiency, resto...
Jun 2, 2011 Local News
Sakubei Yamamoto Paintings Accepted by UNESCO World Documentary Heritage
UNESCO’s Memory of the World Program has accepted the paintings and diaries depicting the lives of coal miners by late artist Sakubei Yamamoto, a Fukuoka Prefecture native. This is...
Jun 2, 2011 Local News
Kyushu Electric to Pass on High Sulfur-Content Oil
Kyushu Electric said the easily procured oil with a high sulfur content was in a form rendering it difficult to use, so they do not consider that as an acceptable substitute for th...
Jun 2, 2011 Local News
Ringer Hut Training Part-Time Foreign Workers
Fukuoka City-based Nagasaki champon restaurant chain Ringer Hut has begun training part-time foreign workers, primarily those at Fukuoka Prefecture shops, at its headquarters. Ther...
Jun 1, 2011 Local News
City Bulletin Jun. 2011
Selected news topics by Fukuoka Now from Fukuoka's Shisei Dayori. This month: Hakata Traditional Craft Center opened, camp at Mt. Abura Civic Forest, environment cleanup event and ...