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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 ...
May 19, 2011 Local News
Fukuoka City Council Candidates Overestimate Poster Expenditures
Nine candidates for Fukuoka City Council in last month’s election submitted excessive estimates for their publicly financed election posters, and signed contracts for that amount w...
May 19, 2011 Local News
Ringer Hut to Open Shop for Women in Ikebukuro
Fukuoka City-based Nagasaki champon chain Ringer Hut will open its first shop targeting female customers next month in the Ikebukuro district of Tokyo. The shop will be called Ring...
May 19, 2011 Local News
Traffic on Kyushu/Yamaguchi – South Korea Route up 27.4% Last Year
The Kyushu Transport Bureau reported that the number of travelers using the regularly scheduled ship routes between Kyushu/Yamaguchi Prefecture and South Korea in FY 2010 totaled 1...
May 19, 2011 Local News
ANA Opens Call Center in Nagasaki City
All Nippon Airways opened a call center in Nagasaki City to take reservations and provide information on international and domestic flights. It is their fifth call center nationwid...
May 19, 2011 Local News
Kumamoto and Shizuoka Governors Agree on Mutual Disaster Assistance
Kumamoto Prefecture Gov. Ikuo Kabashima met with his Shizuoka Prefecture counterpart Heita Kawakatsu at the Kumamoto prefectural offices, where the two men agreed to sign an offici...
May 19, 2011 Local News
Nippon Steel’s Yahata Plant Boosted Production by 15%
Nippon Steel reported that production at its Yahata mill in Kitakyushu for FY 2010 rose 15.5% from the previous year to 4,401 million tons. It was the second consecutive annual inc...
May 19, 2011 Local News
Kitakyushu to Offer Recycling Technology to Kamaishi to Clear Rubble
Mayor Kenji Kitahashi of Kitakyushu visited Kamaishi in Iwate Prefecture to offer Mayor Takenori Noda of that city Kitakyushu’s cooperation with local reconstruction efforts. Kitak...
May 19, 2011 Local News
Nishitetsu Projects 4.4 Billion Yen Revenue Decline
The Nishi-Nippon Railway Co. (Nishitetsu) of Fukuoka City said their preliminary calculations suggest the impact of the Tohoku earthquake on their consolidated revenue for the curr...