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Mar 11, 2010 Local News
Yoshitomi-machi in Fukuoka to Start English Lessons in Kindergarten or Nursery School
Yoshiomi-machi in Yanagawa, Fukuoka Prefecture, plans to start teaching kindergarten and nursery school children English conversation starting in April. A bill budgeting 6.3 millio...
Mar 11, 2010 Local News
Italian Chamber of Commerce in Japan Opens Fukuoka Office
The Italian Chamber of Commerce in Japan held a party to celebrate the opening of their office in Fukuoka City, their first outside of Tokyo. The office began operating in January ...
Mar 11, 2010 Local News
Earnings for Primary Kyushu Companies Soar
The Kyushu Local Finance Bureau and the Fukuoka Local Finance Branch Bureau released the results of their survey of statistics for the major regional companies for the October-Dece...
Mar 11, 2010 Local News
Sagara Ward to Provide Ward Office Crowding Info on Internet
In advance of the crowded conditions expected at fiscal and business yearend, Sagara Ward in Fukuoka City has instituted a system for the ward office in which information on the nu...
Mar 11, 2010 Local News
Who Knows Where the Shinkansen Goes? Very Few
The Kyushu branch of Dentsu conducted a survey to determine the recognition factor that the new Kyushu Shinkansen will provide direct service from Kagoshima to Osaka after it opens...
Mar 11, 2010 Local News
Saga Law Firm Offers Halal Certification Procedure Service
The Okuno Law Office in Arita-cho, Saga Prefecture, is now offering the first service in the country to conduct the procedures for gaining halal certification for food products sol...
Mar 11, 2010 Local News
Oita Board of Education Knocks Biased Education
The Oita Prefecture Board of Education released its opinion on the 8th that “biased education was conducted” at one junior high school in the prefecture. First year students were d...
Mar 11, 2010 Local News
Regional Bankruptcies at Lowest Level in 37 Years
The Fukuoka branch of Tokyo Shoko Research reports that February corporate bankruptcies in Kyushu and Okinawa Prefecture exceeding 10 million yen in liabilities were down 23.5% fro...
Mar 11, 2010 Local News
Joint Industry-Academia Research Survey Published
The Kyushu Bureau of Economy, Trade, and Industry published a compilation of some successful cooperative projects between regional universities and small businesses to create new p...
Mar 4, 2010 Local News
Nissan Shatai Kyushu Plant Starts Operation
Nissan President Carlos Ghosn, local government leaders, and 700 other guests attended the ceremony marking the opening of the Nissan Shatai Kyushu plant in Fukuoka Prefecture. Pre...