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Oct 29, 2009 Local News
Fukuoka City Won’t Formally Join 2020 Olympics Committee
Hiroshima City Mayor Tadatoshi Akiba formally asked Fukuoka City and Kitakyushu to join the exploratory committee he formed with Nagasaki City to try to bring the 2020 Olympics to ...
Oct 29, 2009 Local News
Wireless LAN Trials Planned at Canal City
Trials will begin in February of a wireless LAN service that shoppers at the Canal City Hakata shopping complex can use to access product information with handheld terminals. The s...
Oct 22, 2009 Local News
Hankyu Ferry to Sell Two Ships
Hankyu Ferry, which operates a ferryboat service between Kitakyushu and Osaka, revealed that it intends to cut back service and sell two of its ferryboats. The move was attributed ...
Oct 22, 2009 Local News
Kyushu Electric Group Member Forms Technology Ties with Vietnamese Company
Kyushu Electric Power group company Nishinippon Plant Engineering and Construction Co. finalized a technology exchange agreement with NPS of Vietnam for maintenance work at thermal...
Oct 22, 2009 Local News
Flu Vaccinations Start in Kyushu
Medical institutions in Nagasaki, Oita, and Kagoshima prefectures began acquiring vaccines for the new influenza virus on the 19th and inoculating doctors and nurses. They were fol...
Oct 22, 2009 Local News
Yaskawa Electric Sales Down by Half
Yaskawa Electric of Kitakyushu released its interim report for the current fiscal year that recorded sales of 98.355 billion yen, down 48% from the year-before period. The company ...
Oct 22, 2009 Local News
Nishitetsu Says it Will Lose JPY 1.6 Billion in Revenue from Toll-Free Expressways
The Nishi-Nippon Railway Co. (Nishitetsu) conducted trial calculations of the effect eliminating highway tolls would have on their long-distance bus business, and concluded it woul...
Oct 22, 2009 Local News
Miyazaki Beef Exported to Macao
After Macao removed its prohibition on beef imports from Japan, a Miyazaki Prefecture meat products company became the first to export beef to the region on the 19th. Macao had pre...
Oct 22, 2009 Local News
Hawks Eliminated from Postseason Play
During the first round of postseason play in Japanese baseball, the best two-out-of-three Climax Series, the Fukuoka SoftBank Hawks were eliminated after two straight defeats by th...
Oct 22, 2009 Local News
Most Companies Still Plan on Hiring New Graduates
Fukuoka City-based employment services company Universe Create released the results of its questionnaire survey of 180 companies on its intentions to hire new graduates next spring...