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Mar 18, 2010 Local News
Studio Opens in Fukuoka City to Promote Food Culture
The Food Culture Studio, a facility to prevent information about food and related matters though lectures by nutritionists and chefs, opened in Fukuoka City’s Chuo Ward on the 16th...
Mar 18, 2010 Local News
Fukuoka and Saga Prefectures Hold Business Confab
The business and financial industry in Fukuoka and Saga prefectures held the third Kyushu Economic Forum in Tosu, Saga Prefecture, on the 12th and 13th to promote closer ties. This...
Mar 18, 2010 Local News
Miyazaki Taiyo Bank to Receive 13 Billion Yen in Public Funds
The Financial Services Agency announced it has decided to provide the Miyazaki Taiyo Bank of Miyazaki Prefecture with 13 billion yen in public funds to help the troubled institutio...
Mar 18, 2010 Local News
American Naval Vessels Queried about Nuclear Weapons at Port of Hakata
For the first time, Fukuoka City officials inquired of the Foreign Ministry whether American naval vessels entering the Port of Hakata had nuclear weapons on board on the 16th. Pre...
Mar 18, 2010 Local News
Satoh Industries Creates Eco-Friendly Greenhouse
Satoh Industries of Umi-machi, Fukuoka Prefecture, has developed a greenhouse that accumulates and retains heat from the sun. They used as a reference for their project a similar t...
Mar 18, 2010 Local News
Four Transport Companies Start Mutual Use of Payment Cards
Riders of the Nishi-Nippon Railway (Nishitetsu) transportation network who use their nimoca non-contact payment cards; JR Kyushu with its Sugoca cards, the Fukuoka Municipal Subway...
Mar 18, 2010 Local News
New Hakata Station Building Name Chosen
The name of the new Hakata Station Building set to open with the start of service of the Kyushu Shinkansen in March 2011 is to be JR Hakata City, it was learned. The building will ...
Mar 18, 2010 Local News
Conference Held to Promote Hiring of Foreigners
The Kyushu Bureau of Economy, Trade, and Industry held a conference for local businesses in Fukuoka City on the 15th to promote the hiring of foreigners. About 120 people, includin...
Mar 18, 2010 Local News
First Regional Food Service Industry Sales Decline in Three Years
The Fukuoka branch of Teikoku Data Bank released the results of its survey of the sales of the 50 leading companies in the food service industry in Kyushu and Okinawa Prefecture fo...
Mar 18, 2010 Local News
Nishi-Nippon City Bank Subsidiary to Sell Stocks
The Fukuoka City-based Nishi-Nippon City Bank will join with Tokai Tokyo Financial Holdings to create a subsidiary selling securities called Nishi-Nippon City TT Securities. The ne...