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Dec 24, 2010 Local News
Big Trifecta Payoff at Saga Race Track
For the eighth race at the Saga Race Track in Tosu on the 19th, there was a record payoff of 4.051 million yen for those who picked the trifecta winners, i.e., the horses who finis...
Dec 24, 2010 Local News
Huis ten Bosch Posts First-Ever Profit
Huis ten Bosch, the Sasebo, Nagasaki Prefecture resort, reported it earned current profit of 429 million yen for its consolidated account in FY 2010. Though the company shifted its...
Dec 24, 2010 Local News
Desalinization Certification Plant Built in Kitakyushu
The opening ceremony was held for Water Plaza Kitakyushu, Japan’s first desalinization certification plant that will certify both the conversion of seawater to fresh water and the ...
Dec 24, 2010 Local News
Fukuoka Prefecture to End Overseas Tour Subsidy for Prefectural Delegates
Fukuoka Prefecture will eliminate the one-million-yen subsidy for overseas study tours for each delegate in the prefecture assembly during one term in office. The prefecture expect...
Dec 24, 2010 Local News
Fukuoka Parco Customer Total Tops 10 Million
The number of customers who visited the Fukuoka City Parco outlet in the Tenjin shopping district from its opening on March 19 to the end of November exceeded 10 million people, it...
Dec 24, 2010 Local News
Hakata-Kumamoto Shinkansen Fare to be at 3,000 Yen Level
JR Kyushu intends to keep the one-way fare between Hakata and Kumamoto City on the new Kyushu Shinkansen at the 3,000 yen level, it was learned. They also intend to have the one-wa...
Dec 24, 2010 Local News
Miyazaki Prefecture to Receive 12.8 Billion Yen in Special Tax Grant
The Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communications has determined it will distribute 276.6 billion yen in special tax grants for the month of December. A total of 16.6 billion yen...
Dec 24, 2010 Local News
Junior College to Open Branch at Huis ten Bosch
The Sasebo, Nagasaki Prefecture resort facility Huis ten Bosch is poised to launch a business strategy next spring to attract tourists from China and other Asian countries. As part...
Dec 24, 2010 Local News
NEECO to Make Energy from Chicken Dung in India
Fukuoka City-based Nishi-Nippon Environmental Energy Co. plans to launch a biomass power generating business in India by the spring of 2012 using chicken dung as fuel. If the enter...
Dec 24, 2010 Local News
Sugoca Card to be Valid Nationwide
JR Kyushu announced it has reached agreement with JR West and JR Central to allow the use of each of the others’ non-contactless payment cards starting on March 5, 2011. JR Kyushu ...