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Dec 24, 2009 Local News
Group Promotes Kyushu Tourism in Beijing
The Fukuoka City-based Kyushu Tourism Promotion Board began a series of events in Beijing to promote Kyushu tourism in that city. It is a continuation of a similar program conducte...
Dec 24, 2009 Local News
Fukuoka Prefecture Vice-Governor Resigns
Fukuoka Prefecture Vice-Governor Nakashima Takayuki has resigned his position over allegations that he was entertained by members of the prefectural town and village association, w...
Dec 24, 2009 Local News
Mitsubishi Heavy Industries to Concentrate Shipbuilding Design in Nagasaki
Mitsubishi Heavy Industries revealed that it would assigning the roughly 700 engineers in its shipbuilding design division to its Nagasaki shipyards. The company also plans to shif...
Dec 24, 2009 Local News
Sales of ANA Hayakaken Begin
All Nippon Airways began sales in Fukuoka City of its ANA Hayakaken point card, in which the mileage credits earned by flyers can be converted for use as a discount on fares on the...
Dec 24, 2009 Local News
Deflation Causing Problems for Gas Stations
Concerns of a double-dip recession are being felt in different sectors of the Kyushu economy, one of which is the gas station industry. Price-cutting competition between stations i...
Dec 24, 2009 Local News
KAL Cabin Crews Rank Fukuoka Fourth as Destination Site
A questionnaire survey of the cabin crews for KAL, South Korea’s largest airline, ranked Fukuoka City fourth on the list of sites they like to visit. The airline flies to 104 desti...
Dec 17, 2009 Local News
Starflyer to Lease Another Plane for Haneda Expansion
The Kitakyushu-based airline Starflyer will lease another new aircraft to fulfill the potential demand created when operations are expanded at Haneda Airport next October. The laun...
Dec 17, 2009 Local News
Kagoshima Prefecture to Eliminate Paid Break Time
Kagoshima Prefecture, the last of the nation’s prefectures to offer its employees paid break time during working hours, announced it will abolish the practice as of the end of the ...
Dec 17, 2009 Local News
Universities Conduct Experiments at Sakurajima
Kyushu University and eight other schools, in conjunction with the Meteorological Agency, conducted a second round of experiments at the Sakurajima volcano near Kagoshima City. The...
Dec 17, 2009 Local News
New Policy Formulated for Hakata Station Area
A council for the promotion of development in the Hakata area working to promote the invigoration of the district in conjunction with the opening of the new Hakata Station building...
