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Jul 1, 2010 Local News
K-RIP Promotes Environmental Ties with Shandong Province
The Kyushu Recycle and Environmental Industry Plaza in Fukuoka City, an organization consisting of representatives of government, industry, and academia, signed a memorandum with S...
Jul 1, 2010 Local News
Saga U. to Offer Accounting System over the Internet
Saga University will offer an accounting system to medical institutions that it developed with Japan Unysis, it was revealed. It is a so-called cloud computing system that can be u...
Jul 1, 2010 Local News
Heat Island Effect in Fukuoka City
The Fukuoka District Meteorological Observatory released the results of their survey of the heat island effect in northern Kyushu. They claim the increase in the minimum temperatur...
Jul 1, 2010 Local News
JR Kyushu Counters Discount Highway Tolls
To counter lost revenue from the 1,000 yen discount highway tolls on holidays, JR Kyushu launched a campaign from the 28th in which people who show their automated toll collection ...
Jul 1, 2010 Local News
JR Kyushu Expects Daily Traffic of 100,000 to JR Hakata City
Yoshifumi Baba, one of the directors of JR Kyushu, spoke at a meeting in Fukuoka City on the 28th on the subject of the new main building of the JR Hakata Station, to be known as J...
Jul 1, 2010 Local News
Fukuoka Prefecture to Start Small Business Training Institute for Asian Companies
Fukuoka Prefecture announced it will open the Asia Small and Medium-Sized Business University at the end of August for promoting business and joint enterprises with small businesse...
Jul 1, 2010 Local News
Kyushu Local Governments Shed Employees
A survey by the Kyushu Economic Research Center shows that as of April 2009, the seven prefectures in the region had roughly 171,000 employees, while municipal governments had abou...
Jul 1, 2010 Local News
Suspension of Lexis Hybrid Sales in North America to Have Limited Effect on Toyota Kyushu
Toyota Motors has temporarily halted production of its Lexus HS250h hybrid at its Fukuoka Prefecture plant after it decided to suspend sales and recall the vehicles after the disco...
Jun 24, 2010 Local News
Sumitomo Metals Kokura is Kyushu’s Greenhouse Gas Emission Leader
The Environmental Ministry and the Ministry of Economy, Trade, and Industry released the results of their nationwide survey of companies and their greenhouse gas emissions in FY 20...
Jun 24, 2010 Local News
Akune Mayor Orders 90% Cut in Council Members’ Salaries
Mayor Shinichi Takemura of Akune, Kagoshima Prefecture, ordered that the salary system for the 16 city council members be switched from the current monthly system to a per diem rat...