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Jan 14, 2010 Local News
International Charters Hit All-Time Low at Saga Airport
The number of international charter flights originating in Saga Airport in 2009 totaled just eight, the lowest number since the airport opened in 1998. This is a precipitous drop f...
Jan 14, 2010 Local News
Itoshima Milk Plant Launches Milk Shochu Sales
Fukuoka City dairy products company Itoshima Milk Plant has developed a shochu beverage called Ito Monogatari which has milk as its primary ingredient. The commercialized the produ...
Jan 14, 2010 Local News
152 Kyushu Companies are National Leaders
The Fukuoka branch of Tokyo Shoko Research revealed the results of its survey of Kyushu and Okinawa Prefectures that have the highest market share in their business sectors in Japa...
Jan 14, 2010 Local News
Sharp Drop in Attendance at Nagasaki A-Bomb Museum
In an effort to increase attendance at the Nagasaki Atomic Bomb Museum, officials provided explanations of 270 items in Chinese and Korean in addition to the Japanese- and English-...
Jan 14, 2010 Local News
School District Data Sold to Homebuyers
Fukuoka City-based construction consultant Selkon is selling a reference work called Pittan Koku containing information on the 264 primary schools in the 19 school districts in the...
Jan 14, 2010 Local News
Higashi Fukuoka High School National Rugby Champs
Higashi Fukuoka High School trounced Toin Gakuen of Kanagawa 31-5 in the 89th National High School Boys Rugby Championship to claim their second national title, and their first in ...
Jan 14, 2010 Local News
Mitsubishi Electric to Mass Produce Power Semiconductors in Kyushu
Mitsubishi Electric announced they plan to begin trial production within the year in their Fukuoka City plant of next generation power semiconductors that help cut power loss by 90...
Jan 14, 2010 Local News
Council Planned to Solicit Aircraft Companies to Kitakyushu Airport
Fukuoka Prefecture Gov. Wataru Aso announced that he intends to establish early this year a council that will try to get companies in the aircraft industry to relocate on the artif...
Jan 14, 2010 Local News
Fukuoka Prefecture Mulling Establishment of Two Special Districts
Fukuoka Prefecture Gov. Wataru Aso said that the prefecture would ask the national government for financial assistance to establish two special districts. One would be for promotin...
Jan 14, 2010 Local News
30% of Fukuoka City Companies Forego Salary Increases
The Fukuoka Chamber of Commerce and Industry released its survey of salary conditions at companies in the greater Fukuoka City area for 2009 that showed 30.4% of the companies had ...
