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Mar 24, 2011 Local News
Plans Delayed for Kyushu Nuclear Power Plants
Kyushu Electric Power President Toshio Manabe said at a news conference that the company’s plans for expanding reactor #3 at the Sendai nuclear power plant in Kagoshima Prefecture ...
Mar 24, 2011 Local News
Kyushu Economic Outlook Better in the North than South
According to the January-March corporate economic forecast for northern Kyushu (Fukuoka, Nagasaki, Saga prefectures) compiled by the Fukuoka Local Finance Branch Bureau, the busine...
Mar 24, 2011 Local News
Fukuoka Bank Forms Ties with Large Thai Bank
The Fukuoka City-based Fukuoka Bank announced the formation of a business partnership with the Kasikorn Bank of Thailand, one of the largest in that country. The objective is to pr...
Mar 24, 2011 Local News
Huis ten Bosch to Accept Earthquake Victims
Nagasaki Prefecture resort Huis ten Bosch and 37 ryokan with hot springs will put up about 1,700 people in 538 families who lost their homes in the Tohoku earthquake, Gov. Hodo Nak...
Mar 24, 2011 Local News
Land Valuations Rise near Kyushu Shinkansen Stations
The Ministry of Land, Infrastructure, and Transport released its appraisals of land values as of January 1st, which show that land values near the new train stations in the primary...
Mar 24, 2011 Local News
Some Kyushu Factories at Full Production
Less than a week after the Tohoku earthquake, Kyushu plants in the pharmaceutical, food products, and energy sectors had increased production for two reasons. The first was to offs...
Mar 24, 2011 Local News
750 Requests for Kyushu Public Housing from Tohoku Area
As of the 21st, Kyushu’s seven prefectures and two special ordinance cities had 750 requests for their offers of free public housing from people who lost their homes in the Tohoku ...
Mar 24, 2011 Local News
Nishitetsu Bus Swings the Axe on Some Routes
Nishi-Nippon Railroad (Nishitetsu) announced the final decision on maintaining the local bus routes it had asked local governments last year for authorization to eliminate. As a re...
Mar 17, 2011 Local News
Confiscation of Counterfeit Goods at Moji Customs Reaches High
Moji Customs, responsible for monitoring imports in Yamaguchi, Oita, and Miyazaki Prefectures, and part of Fukuoka, Saga, and Nagasaki prefectures said there were 2,089 incidents i...
Mar 17, 2011 Local News
Kitakyushu, Chinese Group Sign Environmental Agreement
The Kitakyushu Asian Center for Low Carbon Society, (TRANSLATOR NOTE: That is the official name) established last year by that city to sell environmental technology overseas, has s...