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Nov 24, 2016 Local News
‘Henn-na Hotel’ at Huis Ten Bosch Entered into Guinness Book of World Records
The Henn-na Hotel at Huis Ten Bosch, Nagasaki opened in July 2015 and has recently entered the Guinness Book of World Records as ‘the first robot-staffed hotel...
Nov 18, 2016 Local News
Tenjin IMS Renovation Started
IMS announced the start of the renovation of the IMS building on Nov. 9. They plan to spend over ¥200,000,000 to...
Nov 9, 2016 Local News
Fukuoka Jisho Announces Plan for ‘Tenjin Business Center’
Redevelopment along Meiji-Dori as 30 buildings that date to the mid 1950s will be knocked down for...
Nov 7, 2016 Local News
City Receives 107 Applications to Open Yatai
On November 1 Fukuoka City announced that they have received 107 applications to...
Oct 28, 2016 Local News
Share Office “The Company” to Open in December
In Dec. 2016, The Company will open a new share office in Fukuoka - a unique space in which members can create projects and collaborate with other entrepreneurs...
Oct 26, 2016 Local News
Cosmos Remains King of Retail Sales in Kyushu
Fukuoka-based drugstore chain Cosmos took the top spot for the third year running in the annual ranking of retail companies by sales in the Kyushu-Okinawa region for fiscal 2015. C...
Oct 26, 2016 Local News
Mitsubishi to Halt Large Cruise Ship Production in Nagasaki
Mitsubishi Heavy Industries has announced plans to stop building large cruise ships at its Nagasaki Shipyard after suffering heavy losses amid fierce competition from Korean and Ch...
Oct 26, 2016 Local News
Docomo and Partners to Begin Drone Delivery Tests to Noko
Three companies—Tokyo-based senior citizen services company Mikawaya 21, Saitama-based drone research firm enRoute and Tokyo-based mobile giant NTT Docomo—have agreed to begin dron...
Oct 26, 2016 Local News
City to Send Potential IT Entrepreneurs to Silicon Valley
In an effort to spur business startups in Fukuoka, City Hall is preparing to send around 140 potential entrepreneurs to San Francisco and Silicon Valley in three waves. First annou...
Oct 21, 2016 Local News
Zepp Fukuoka To Return To Former Hawks Town Mall Site In 2018
Mitsubishi Estate announced plans to bring back the popular large-scale live house “Zepp” and the multiscreen cinema “United Cinema” to a new commercial development at the former H...