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Jan 13, 2011 Local News
Hawks to Create New Minor League Team
The Daiei Softbank Hawks will create a second minor league team this season and have them play in the independent Island League in Shikoku and Kyushu, it was learned. The Hawks wan...
Jan 13, 2011 Local News
Fukuoka Prefecture Gov. Aso Leads Delegation to Taiwan
Fukuoka Prefecture Gov. Wataru Aso led a 12-member delegation of businesspeople to Taiwan on the 10th for a three-day visit. The primary objective was to get a first-hand look at t...
Jan 13, 2011 Local News
Daimaru Accepts nimoca Card
The Daimaru department store in the Tenjin district of Fukuoka City has begun accepting customer use of the nimoca contactless payment card/credit card issued by Nishitetsu. Custom...
Jan 13, 2011 Local News
Shinwa Bank to Accept Fish as Loan Collateral
Shinwa Bank of Sasebo, Nagasaki Prefecture, affiliated with the Fukuoka Financial Group, has agreed to give fish breeder Matsusui of Oita Prefecture a 300 million yen loan and acce...
Jan 13, 2011 Local News
Oita Team National Champs for Girls High School Volleyball
The girls team from Higashiryukoku High School in Nakatsu, Oita Prefecture, won the national high school volleyball championship in Tokyo on the 9th, defeating Furukawa Gakuen from...
Jan 13, 2011 Local News
HTB to Create New Passenger Ship Service between Shanghai and Nagasaki
Sasebo resort Huis ten Bosch revealed plans to create a new passenger ship service between Shanghai and Nagasaki this summer. They established a company in Panama last month to ope...
Jan 13, 2011 Local News
Yaskawa Electric Mulling New Plant in Shanghai
Kitakyushu-based Yaskawa Electric will expand the production capacity of its existing inverter plant in Shanghai to meet burgeoning demand, and is considering building a new plant ...
Jan 13, 2011 Local News
Kyudenko to Build Large Wind Power Plant in Kagoshima
Kyudenko revealed plans to build a wind power plant with a capacity of 20,000 kW in Ichikishikino, Kagoshima Prefecture. Work will begin in April, and plans call for the plant to b...
Jan 13, 2011 Local News
Fukuoka Prefecture to Expand Small Business Outreach to Taiwan
Fukuoka Prefecture plans to expand to Taiwan this year the outreach of a program it conducts with the Thai government to promote interaction between small businesses in Asia. The o...
Jan 13, 2011 Local News
Kumamoto Prefecture to Export Milk to Southeast Asia
Rakunoh Mothers, a milk producers’ group based in Kumamoto City, revealed they will begin exporting locally produced milk to Malaysia and Singapore later this year. It will be the ...