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Jul 29, 2010 Local News
Kyushu Travel Agencies Report Recovery in Summer Overseas Trips
Travel agencies throughout Kyushu are reporting that signs are appearing of a recovery in customer demand for overseas trips, buoyed in part by the appreciating yen. In addition to...
Jul 29, 2010 Local News
Lawson’s to Open 50 Fresh Produce Convenience Stores in Fukuoka
Lawson’s is accelerating the opening of its Lawson’s 100 convenience stores that offer fresh produce, starting with two in Fukuoka City at the end of this month. Focusing on Fukuok...
Jul 22, 2010 Local News
Hakata Designer T-Shirts on Sale for Limited Time
A group of 30 designers, writers, flower arrangers, chefs, and photographers have created t-shirts with designs publicizing Fukuoka City. The shirts went on sale at the Hakata Japa...
Jul 22, 2010 Local News
Precipitous Plunge in Regional Shipbuilding Orders
The Kyushu District Transport Bureau reports that the 56 shipyards in Kyushu and western Yamaguchi Prefecture suffered a plunge in orders in FY 2009 to 75,000 tons, or 27 ships. Th...
Jul 22, 2010 Local News
Best Denki Back in the Black
Fukuoka City-based consumer electronics mass merchandiser Best Denki reported that in the first quarter of the current fiscal year (March to May) it had recorded both a current pro...
Jul 22, 2010 Local News
Chinese Solar Power Company Opens Fukuoka Office
Suntech Power Japan, the Japanese subsidiary of the large Chinese solar power company Suntech Power, opened an office in Fukuoka City as a headquarters for its western Japan operat...
Jul 22, 2010 Local News
Number of Overnight Lodgers in Kyushu Rises in First Quarter
The Kyushu District Transport Bureau released statistics showing that the number of overnight lodgers in Kyushu in the January – March quarter totaled roughly 7.70 million people, ...
Jul 22, 2010 Local News
Saibu Gas Promotes Use of Natural Gas for Home Power Generation
Fukuoka City-based Saibu Gas is focusing its resources on promoting what it calls “double power generation”, which combines fuel cells for home use that use natural gas and solar p...
Jul 22, 2010 Local News
Public Trial of Multimedia Broadcast in Fukuoka City
CSK Systems of Tokyo and the Nishinippon Shimbun jointly conducted a trial multimedia broadcast in the lobby of the Fukuoka City offices. In multimedia broadcasting, digital data i...
Jul 22, 2010 Local News
34 Fukuoka Prefecture Council Members Bought PCs with Policy Research Funds
An investigation has revealed that 34 delegates to the Fukuoka Prefecture Council used their policy research fund expense account to buy computers for their personal use in 2009. O...
