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Oct 14, 2010 Local News
Arao and Saga Racetracks to Conduced Exchange Races
The local government-owned racetracks in Tosu, Saga Prefecture and Arao, Kumamoto Prefecture, have agreed to have so-called “exchange races” five times a month, in which the jockey...
Oct 14, 2010 Local News
Reservations Being Taken for Use of New Hakata Station Building
JR Hakata City, the new JR Hakata Station building slated to open with the start of full Kyushu Shinkansen service next March, is now accepting reservations for the use of event si...
Oct 14, 2010 Local News
Showa Denko to Operate Resin Film Plant in Oita
With demand surging for the resin films used in smartphones and touch panels, Showa Denko that it will operate a resin film plant at the industrial complex in Oita City. Plans call...
Oct 14, 2010 Local News
Saga to Solicit Low-Cost Chinese Airlines to Prefecture Airport
Saga Prefecture Gov. Yasushi Furukawa revealed at a press conference that the prefecture is working to attract low-cost carriers to use the prefecture-operated Saga Airport, a pere...
Oct 14, 2010 Local News
Huis ten Bosch Visitors Increase 17%
Huis ten Bosch, the resort facility in Sasebo, Nagasaki Prefecture, announced they had 865,000 visitors during the April to September period, a 17.2% rise from the same period last...
Oct 14, 2010 Local News
Fukuoka Companies to Accept South Korean High School Students as Interns
The Education Committee of South Korea’s Chungcheongnam Province asked Chukeikyo, an association of small and medium-sized business executives in Fukuoka Prefecture, to accept six ...
Oct 14, 2010 Local News
JR To Request Kagoshima-Osaka Shinkansen Ticket Price of Roughly 21,000 Yen
JR will ask the Ministry of Land, Infrastructure, and Transport to approve a request for pegging the price of a Shinkansen ticket from Kagoshima to Osaka at roughly 21,000 yen. The...
Oct 14, 2010 Local News
New Screen and Sound System at Canal City Theater
United Cinema of Tokyo announced it will begin showing films at the Imax Digital Theater in Fukuoka City’s Canal City complex on November 19th with a new screen featuring exception...
Oct 14, 2010 Local News
Izutsu-ya Turns First Profit in Three Years
Kitakyushu-based Izutsu-ya released its interim consolidated report showing it earned 1.154 billion yen in current profit during the first half, a sharp increase from the 1.69 bill...
Oct 7, 2010 Local News
Saga Grannies Sing in Shanghai
Gabba, a singing group consisting of eight Saga Prefecture grandmothers, appeared Saturday at the Shanghai World Expo to promote tourism in their prefecture on Saga Prefecture Day....