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Jan 28, 2010 Local News
Saibu Gas Opens Model House with Combined Use of Gas and Electricity Power Generation
Saibu Gas opened a model house in Fukuoka City for demonstrating power generation with the Ene-farm fuel cell battery using natural gas and solar power. Dubbed the Soene House, the...
Jan 28, 2010 Local News
Kyushu Expressway Bus Passenger Totals Fall 11% at Yearend
The Kyushu District Transport Bureau released statistics from the 24 companies operating expressway buses on longer routes in Kyushu showing that the number of passengers during th...
Jan 28, 2010 Local News
Kyudenko to Grow Olives
Fukuoka City-based Kyudenko announced it had formed an agreement with Amagusa, Kumamoto Prefecture, to grow olives. The agreement starts in FY 2010 and will run for three years. Th...
Jan 28, 2010 Local News
Regional Department Store Sales Down 10.2%
The Kyushu Department Store Association announced that aggregate sales for the 26 stores from 17 companies in Kyushu and Okinawa Prefecture in 2009 fell 10.2% from the previous yea...
Jan 28, 2010 Local News
Ishinoyu Invents Climate Control System Using Special Ceramics
Fukuoka City-based Ishinoyu, which sells the Stone Spa baths, has invented a light-based climate control system and applied for an international patent. The system utilizes the inf...
Jan 28, 2010 Local News
Fukuoka Food Fair Held in New York Restaurant
The Fukuoka Food Fair in New York was held in the popular New York seafood restaurant BLT Fish on the 26th for an invited audience of about 50 people in the local food service indu...
Jan 28, 2010 Local News
Fukuoka City to Extend Free Hospital Care from Pre-Schoolers to Third-Graders
Fukuoka City, which already compensates the parents of pre-school age children for hospital stays, plans to extend the program to children through the third year of primary school....
Jan 28, 2010 Local News
Nishitetsu Bus to Eliminate 57 Routes
Fukuoka City-based Nishi-Nippon Railroad (Nishitetsu) announced that it would eliminate 57 bus routes, both long-distance and city routes, in 2010 to improve the financial health o...
Jan 28, 2010 Local News
Ishinoyu Invents Climate Control System Using Special Ceramics
Fukuoka City-based Ishinoyu, which sells the Stone Spa baths, has invented a light-based climate control system and applied for an international patent. The system utilizes the inf...
Jan 28, 2010 Local News
Fukuoka Food Fair Held in New York Restaurant
The Fukuoka Food Fair in New York was held in the popular New York seafood restaurant BLT Fish on the 26th for an invited audience of about 50 people in the local food service indu...