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Mar 26, 2009 Local News
Unlimited Travel Tickets to Seniors
Starting April 1, JR Kyushu will offer additional features for what it calls Active 65 tickets to those aged 65 and older. The tickets, which have been sold since last November, of...
Mar 26, 2009 Local News
Kamimine-cho Elects Nation’s Youngest CMO
In a runoff election held on March 22, the voters of Kamimine-cho, Saga Prefecture, chose Yuhei Takehiro as their new chief municipal officer. Takehiro, a former aide in the upper ...
Mar 26, 2009 Local News
Governor to Support Expansion of Airport
Fukuoka Airport will soon reach the limit of its capacity, and there has been a debate about whether to add an additional runway or to build a new airport. The Nishinippon Shimbun ...
Mar 26, 2009 Local News
97 Million Yen in Slush Funds
Mayor Seishi Koyama of Kumamoto City released the results of an investigation of improper municipal accounting practices from 2000-2008, which found slush funds totaling 97 million...
Mar 26, 2009 Local News
Request to Register J-Pon Rebuffed
The Japan Patent Office has turned down Saga Prefecture’s request to register the trademark J-Pon for the greenhouse-grown Mandarin oranges it exports. The government agency said t...
Mar 26, 2009 Local News
Mitsui Mining & Smelting to Seek Delisting
Mitsui Mining & Smelting has decided to apply for delisting from the Fukuoka Stock Exchange. The company says that because there is such little trading of its shares on that e...
Mar 26, 2009 Local News
Saibu Gas Aims to Boost Sales by 16%
Fukuoka City-based Saibu Gas unveiled its new mid-term plan for a three-year period starting in FY 2009. The plan calls for making a stronger sales pitch to large-scale customers t...
Mar 26, 2009 Local News
Cheap Offices Sought in Fukuoka City
Fukuoka City was no exception to the national trend for declining land values in regional cities as reported on the 23rd. The value of both residential and commercial land in the c...
Mar 26, 2009 Local News
Saga Governor to Take Voluntary Pay Cut
Saga Prefecture Gov. Yasushi Furukawa announced he will cut his own salary to take responsibility for the prefectural employees who took Saga brand beef to the United Arab Emirates...
Mar 26, 2009 Local News
Third Sector Companies a Financial Burden
The Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communications released a survey of public-private sector partnerships and public corporations in Kyushu and Yamaguchi Prefecture showing that ...