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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 ...
Jul 1, 2010 Local News
K-RIP Promotes Environmental Ties with Shandong Province
The Kyushu Recycle and Environmental Industry Plaza in Fukuoka City, an organization consisting of representatives of government, industry, and academia, signed a memorandum with S...
Jul 1, 2010 Local News
Saga U. to Offer Accounting System over the Internet
Saga University will offer an accounting system to medical institutions that it developed with Japan Unysis, it was revealed. It is a so-called cloud computing system that can be u...
Jul 1, 2010 Local News
Heat Island Effect in Fukuoka City
The Fukuoka District Meteorological Observatory released the results of their survey of the heat island effect in northern Kyushu. They claim the increase in the minimum temperatur...
Jul 1, 2010 Local News
JR Kyushu Counters Discount Highway Tolls
To counter lost revenue from the 1,000 yen discount highway tolls on holidays, JR Kyushu launched a campaign from the 28th in which people who show their automated toll collection ...
Jul 1, 2010 Local News
JR Kyushu Expects Daily Traffic of 100,000 to JR Hakata City
Yoshifumi Baba, one of the directors of JR Kyushu, spoke at a meeting in Fukuoka City on the 28th on the subject of the new main building of the JR Hakata Station, to be known as J...
Jul 1, 2010 Local News
Fukuoka Prefecture to Start Small Business Training Institute for Asian Companies
Fukuoka Prefecture announced it will open the Asia Small and Medium-Sized Business University at the end of August for promoting business and joint enterprises with small businesse...
Jul 1, 2010 Local News
Kyushu Local Governments Shed Employees
A survey by the Kyushu Economic Research Center shows that as of April 2009, the seven prefectures in the region had roughly 171,000 employees, while municipal governments had abou...
