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Jul 15, 2010 Local News
Kenkokazoku’s Garlic Fields Certified Organic
Kagoshima City-based Kenkokazoku, Japan’s leading merchant of foods with health claims, announced that all of their garlic fields used to produce the garlic for their popular Ninni...
Jul 15, 2010 Local News
Former Saga City Mayor to Run for Fukuoka City Mayor
Former Saga City Mayor Toshiyuki Kinoshita announced he will run as an independent candidate in the next election for Fukuoka City mayor. He will likely oppose incumbent Hiroshi Yo...
Jul 15, 2010 Local News
Responses to Solicitations for Wind Power Business Hit Bottom
In 2003, Kyushu Electric Power began soliciting companies and groups with an interest in operating wind power facilities in Kyushu. They have received only 18 responses for the cur...
Jul 15, 2010 Local News
Consumer Activities to be Traced Digitally
Fukuoka Softbank Hawks Marketing and two other companies plan to start in the near future a trial in Fukuoka City in which 500 digital signs will be used to transmit electronic cou...
Jul 8, 2010 Local News
State of Emergency Partially Lifted in Miyazaki
Miyazaki Prefecture Gov. Hideo Higashikokubaru announced the partial lifting of the state of emergency declared to cope with the outbreak of foot-and-mouth disease among cattle and...
Jul 8, 2010 Local News
First Halfway House in Nation Admits Seven Back to Society in One Year
A Ministry of Justice-operated halfway house for people released from prison in Kitakyushu, the first of its kind in the nation, marked its first anniversary last week. The facilit...
Jul 8, 2010 Local News
Rise in Visitor Totals Reported at Kyushu Theme Parks
An association for the promotion of Kyushu theme parks found that visitor totals increased in six of the 10 major regional facilities in FY 2009. This was attributed to the discoun...
Jul 8, 2010 Local News
Kagoshima Gov. Issues Admonition to Akune Mayor
Kagoshima Gov. Yuichiro Ito has issued an admonition to Akune Mayor Shinichi Takemura recommending that a city council session be convened in the ongoing dispute in that city over ...
Jul 8, 2010 Local News
Returns of Unused Policy Research Funds Soar in Kumamoto Prefecture
Kumamoto Prefecture last year began requiring prefectural council delegates to provide receipts for all expenditures of the policy research funds it provides. The prefectural gover...
Jul 8, 2010 Local News
RDF Power Plant Turns First Profit
Omuta Recycle Hatsuden, a public-private sector partnership in Omuta for producing refuse derived fuel, posted a profit of 105 million yen, it was announced. It was the first-ever ...
