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Sep 11, 2009 Local News
Local Government Welfare Benefits for Students Hits Record High
The Nishinippon Shimbun conducted a survey of municipal government financial assistance to individual primary school and junior high school students in the Kyushu prefectural capit...
Sep 11, 2009 Local News
Number of People in Fisheries Industry at All-Time Low
Fukuoka Prefecture and the Japanese government conducted a joint census of people in the fisheries industry for 2008, which revealed a decline of 3.9% to 6,147 people engaged in th...
Sep 11, 2009 Local News
Stamps Commemorating Friendship Year Unveiled
The Kyushu branch of Japan Post and the Busan post office in South Korea unveiled their respective versions of postage stamps to commemorate the Fukuoka-Busan Friendship Year. Both...
Sep 3, 2009 Local News
DPJ Now Strongest Party in Kyushu
The results of the landslide victory by the Democratic Party of Japan in the recent lower house elections means that the party has for the first time won the most number of seats i...
Sep 3, 2009 Local News
Nishitetsu Group Civil Engineering Companies to Merge
The Nishi-Nippon Railway Co. (Nishitetsu) revealed that three of its group companies involved with civil engineering work would merge as of October 1. One objective of the merger i...
Sep 3, 2009 Local News
All Nishitetsu Buses Now Accept nimoca Cards
Fukuoka City-based Nishi-Nippon Railroad (Nishitetsu) announced that all of the route buses operated by the Nishitetsu Group now accept the contactless payment card nimoca. This is...
Sep 3, 2009 Local News
New Korean Airline to Offer Four Roundtrip Busan-Fukuoka Flights
Air Busan, a new airline based in that South Korean city, announced plans to offer round trip service between Busan and Fukuoka City as its first international flight. They hope to...
Sep 3, 2009 Local News
Toto Cutting Back on Oita Plant Operations
Kitakyushu-based Toto announced it will transfer some of the production lines making water faucets at its Oita plant to its plant in Kokura, Kitakyushu, by next March. The company ...
Sep 3, 2009 Local News
Kumamoto Dairy Cooperatives to Export Milk to Vietnam
The Kumamoto Prefecture Federation of Dairy Industry Cooperatives said they plan to export milk this year to meet the growing demand for the beverage in that country. The exports w...
Sep 3, 2009 Local News
Nishi-Nippon City Bank to Establish Securities Subsidiary
The Nishi-Nippon City Bank announced it will create a securities subsidiary jointly with Tokai Tokyo Financial Holdings Inc. The bank’s objective is to expand its business by offer...