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May 17, 2011 Local News
Kitakyushu Company to Build School in Laos
Fumiharu Uchiyama, the president of Uchiyama Holdings of Kitakyushu, has been raising funds nationwide to build a primary school in Laos. His fund raising activity, which has been ...
May 17, 2011 Local News
Kitakyushu Company to Build School in Laos
Fumiharu Uchiyama, the president of Uchiyama Holdings of Kitakyushu, has been raising funds nationwide to build a primary school in Laos. His fund raising activity, which has been ...
May 12, 2011 Local News
Revenue and Profit Declines Projected for 29% of Kyushu Companies
The Fukuoka branch of Teikoku Databank released its forecasts on the financial performance of companies in the Kyushu/Okinawa Prefecture region for FY 2011 based on surveys of the ...
May 12, 2011 Local News
Kurume U. Sends Medical Teams to Fukushima Prefecture
Kurume University sent four medical support teams to Shinchi-machi, Fukushima Prefecture, to assist the people there stricken by the earthquake and tsunami. Each team consists of t...
May 12, 2011 Local News
Electric Bus Trials Held in Saga
The Waseda University Graduate School of Environment and Engineering conducted trials of an electric-powered microbus for 25 passengers in Saga City earlier this month. The bus was...
May 12, 2011 Local News
New Car Registrations in Kyushu Down 56%
There were 9,049 new car registrations in Kyushu in April 2010 (minicars excluded), a 56.4% plunge from year-before totals, a survey from the Fukuoka Prefecture Automobile Dealers’...
May 12, 2011 Local News
Kyushu Electric Receiving Power Supplements from Chubu Electric
Kyushu Electric Power Co. revealed that since the beginning of May, they have received roughly 400,000 kW of power supplements from Chubu Electric Power in the Chugoku region. That...
May 12, 2011 Local News
Kyushu Setting Records for Lack of Rainfall
The Fukuoka District Meteorological Observatory reported that 46 of its 130 observation sites in the seven Kyushu prefectures recorded the lowest amount of rainfall ever in April. ...
May 12, 2011 Local News
Prefecture Auditors Reject Demand for Funds Return
The Fukuoka Prefecture committee of auditors has rejected a claim from the prefecture ombudsman for the return of 113.9 million yen in funds used for political research by 70 prefe...
May 12, 2011 Local News
Resumption of Genkai Power Plant Operation Depends on Local Sentiment
The Japanese government said the emergency safety measures being implemented at the nuclear power plants in Genkai-cho, Saga Prefecture, are being appropriately conducted, which me...