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Feb 17, 2011 Local News
Free Wireless LAN to Start 16 Nagasaki Prefecture Shopping Malls
Ninjin Net in Nagasaki has installed wireless LAN systems in the 16 primary shopping malls in Nagasaki City and Sasebo with operation beginning in March, it was learned. Users with...
Feb 17, 2011 Local News
Kyusai to Build New Mail-Order System
Kyusai, a Fukuoka City-based manufacturer and merchant of foods for the health market, revealed they would rework for the first time their mail-order system, which has been in plac...
Feb 17, 2011 Local News
Three Kyushu Mayors Visit Seoul for PR Offensive
The mayors of Fukuoka City, Kagoshima City, and Kumamoto City visited Seoul to publicize their cities as tourist designations before the opening of the Kyushu Shinkansen next month...
Feb 10, 2011 Local News
JA Saga Develops New Artificial Insemination Method for Cows
JA Saga, the local agricultural cooperative, revealed that they have become the first in Japan to successfully use a new method for the artificial insemination of cows. The fertili...
Feb 10, 2011 Local News
Kyushu Tourism Guidebook Distributed
A guidebook to tourist destinations throughout Kyushu for Chinese and Korean tourists published jointly by the Nishinippon Shimbun and the Tokyo Chizu Publishing Co. is now being d...
Feb 10, 2011 Local News
Nishitetsu Responds to New Shinkansen Line
The Nishi-Nippon Railway Co. (Nishitetsu) announced it would begin operation of a new limited express bus between the new JR Hakata Station and the Tenjin district on March 2. The ...
Feb 10, 2011 Local News
Snow Causes 25% Drop in Highway Bus Passengers
The Kyushu Transport Bureau revealed that bus ridership fell 25.2% from the previous year during the yearend period from December 25 to January 4 for the 16 companies providing reg...
Feb 10, 2011 Local News
Fukuoka and Daejeon Research Institutes Sign Pact
The Fukuoka Asia Urban Research Center of Fukuoka City and the Daejeon Development Research Institute of Daejeon in South Korea signed a research exchange agreement. It is the thir...
Feb 10, 2011 Local News
Ippudo to Open Shop in South Korea
The Hakata Ippudo ramen chain announced it has formed a licensing agreement with a South Korean company to operate their shops in that country. They also announced the first Ippudo...
Feb 10, 2011 Local News
Chikuho Bank Boosts Farm Lending
The Chikuho Bank of Kurume, Fukuoka Prefecture, has launched the Chikugin Agribusiness Loan, a new product for regional farmers and agribusinesses. The objective is to develop new ...
