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Jan 13, 2011 Local News
Oita Team National Champs for Girls High School Volleyball
The girls team from Higashiryukoku High School in Nakatsu, Oita Prefecture, won the national high school volleyball championship in Tokyo on the 9th, defeating Furukawa Gakuen from...
Jan 13, 2011 Local News
HTB to Create New Passenger Ship Service between Shanghai and Nagasaki
Sasebo resort Huis ten Bosch revealed plans to create a new passenger ship service between Shanghai and Nagasaki this summer. They established a company in Panama last month to ope...
Jan 13, 2011 Local News
Yaskawa Electric Mulling New Plant in Shanghai
Kitakyushu-based Yaskawa Electric will expand the production capacity of its existing inverter plant in Shanghai to meet burgeoning demand, and is considering building a new plant ...
Jan 13, 2011 Local News
Kyudenko to Build Large Wind Power Plant in Kagoshima
Kyudenko revealed plans to build a wind power plant with a capacity of 20,000 kW in Ichikishikino, Kagoshima Prefecture. Work will begin in April, and plans call for the plant to b...
Jan 13, 2011 Local News
Fukuoka Prefecture to Expand Small Business Outreach to Taiwan
Fukuoka Prefecture plans to expand to Taiwan this year the outreach of a program it conducts with the Thai government to promote interaction between small businesses in Asia. The o...
Jan 13, 2011 Local News
Kumamoto Prefecture to Export Milk to Southeast Asia
Rakunoh Mothers, a milk producers’ group based in Kumamoto City, revealed they will begin exporting locally produced milk to Malaysia and Singapore later this year. It will be the ...
Jan 6, 2011 Local News
1.5% Economic Growth Predicted for Kyushu
The Kyushu Economic Research Center released its economic forecast for FY 2011 for Kyushu and Okinawa Prefecture, which calls for real growth of roughly 1.5%, absent the effect of ...
Jan 6, 2011 Local News
Locally Made Bamboo Wheelchairs for Airport Use Developed
Furniture maker Sansouing of Oita Prefecture teamed with Japan Airlines and the National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology to create a bamboo wheelchair for u...
Jan 6, 2011 Local News
Kumamoto Prefecture, City, and University to Open Office in Shanghai
Kumamoto Prefecture, Kumamoto City, and Kumamoto University will cooperate to open a joint office in Shanghai, China next fall, it was learned. The three entities hope to attract t...
Jan 6, 2011 Local News
New Development of Cancer Stem Cell Treatment
Dr. Keiichi Nakayama and a team of researchers at Kyushu University’s Medical Institute of Bioregulation have found that a certain protein will change the state of cancer stem cell...
