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Jul 2, 2009 Local News
Evergreen Marinoa to Stop Ferris Wheel?
The Evergreen Marinoa amusement park in Fukuoka City has a 120-meter-high Ferris wheel, the nation’s highest, but the park’s operating company is thinking of shutting it down at th...
Jul 2, 2009 Local News
Kyushu White Paper on Agriculture Calls for Ties to Other Sectors
The Kyushu Regional Agricultural Administration Office released its White Paper for 2008, reporting on regional agriculture and trends in agricultural villages. The report focuses ...
Jul 2, 2009 Local News
Young Japanese and South Korean Researchers Meet
The Sixth International Scholastic Forum for young Japanese and South Korean researchers met at the Kyushu University campus in Fukuoka City on the 27th and 28th. The forum was par...
Jul 2, 2009 Local News
Gov. Higashikokubaru Poised to Run for Diet Seat
After a meeting with Makoto Koga of Japan’s ruling Liberal-Democratic Party, Miyazaki Prefecture Gov. Hideo Higashikokubaru said he would run on the condition that he be considered...
Jul 2, 2009 Local News
China Rejects Trademark Applications for Two Kyushu Prefectures
Problems have arisen in recent years in China and Taiwan over the use by corporations and individuals in those countries of Japanese place names for branded products that have no r...
Jul 2, 2009 Local News
Nation’s First Halfway House for Prisons Opens in Kitakyushu
The Center for Promoting Self-Sufficiency and Rehabilitation, a facility run by the national government as a halfway house for prisoners who cannot be released from jail on parole ...
Jul 2, 2009 Local News
Kyushu Theme Parks Struggling
The Fukuoka City-based Association for the Promotion of Kyushu Theme Parks released figures for admissions to parks in FY 2008 showing that the aggregate number of visitors for the...
Jul 2, 2009 Local News
JR Kyushu Looking to Conduct Business outside Region
JR Kyushu intends to conduct business enterprises outside of Kyushu in Japan and other Asian countries in the future, it was revealed at the company’s general stockholders’ meeting...
Jul 2, 2009 Local News
Miyazaki City Has Best Child-Rearing Environment in Japan
The Tokyo non-profit organization Egalite Otemae conducted a survey of the child-rearing environment of the larger Japanese cities, and Miyazaki City was rated as having the best s...
Jul 2, 2009 Local News
Kyushu Electric Power: Group Policy Opposed to Political Contributions
During the general shareholders’ meeting in Fukuoka City on June 26, it was revealed that the subsidiaries of Kyushu Electric Power ended their political contributions in FY 2008. ...
