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Apr 28, 2011 Local News
Huis ten Bosch Continues to Make Money
Huis ten Bosch, the Sasebo, Nagasaki Prefecture resort, projects more than 600 million yen in current profit for the period from October 2010 to March 2011. During the previous six...
Apr 28, 2011 Local News
Rare Earth Metal Deposits Confirmed in Kagoshima Bay
A team from Okayama University has confirmed the existence of large quantities of the rare earth metal antimony in the seabed of Kagoshima Bay. They estimate the bed contains as mu...
Apr 28, 2011 Local News
Kanso Develops New Sidewalk Signage
The increasing number of accidents between bicyclists and pedestrians has led to Kanso, a Fukuoka City-based sign design company, to produce sidewalk signs to prevent those acciden...
Apr 28, 2011 Local News
Tisco Japan to Open Five Currency Exchange Shops
Fukuoka City-based Tisco Japan plans to open five currency exchange shops, primarily in Kyushu / Okinawa airports. Though overseas travel to Japan is down due to the Tohoku earthqu...
Apr 28, 2011 Local News
Ikea to Open First Kyushu Shop
Ikea of Sweden, the world’s largest specialty manufacturer of furniture, held the groundbreaking ceremony for its first Kyushu shop in Shingu-machi, Fukuoka Prefecture. Though ther...
Apr 28, 2011 Local News
Kyushu Electric Power Sales Up
Kyushu Electric Power announced that electric power sales in FY 2010 totaled 87.474 kWh, a 4.9% increase from the previous year. It is the first such increase in three years, and t...
Apr 28, 2011 Local News
Kyushu Electric Establishes New Maintenance Company
Kyushu Electric Power Co. revealed that it had established Kyushu Hi-Tech (SPELLING UNCONFIRMED) to handle inspections and repairs at its power plants and transmission facilities. ...
Apr 28, 2011 Local News
Kyushu has 2,094 Critically Depopulated Communities
The Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communications conducted a nationwide survey on critically depopulated communities whose population of elderly residents is at least 50%. It fo...
Apr 28, 2011 Local News
Eight Municipal Chief Executives Run Unopposed
Of the 23 elections for municipal chief executives on the 24th, eight had candidates that were automatically elected because they ran unopposed. They included three each in Fukuoka...
Apr 28, 2011 Local News
Kyushu Electric Power Sales Up
Kyushu Electric Power announced that electric power sales in FY 2010 totaled 87.474 kWh, a 4.9% increase from the previous year. It is the first such increase in three years, and t...