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Jun 18, 2009 Local News
Stretch Limos Available for Rent in Fukuoka Next Month
Fukuoka City-based Tisco Japan will begin operation of the first local business renting stretch limousines, measuring 8.6 meters in length, at the end of July. The limos can seat s...
Jun 18, 2009 Local News
Eighteenth Bank to Eliminate 50 ATMs
The Nagasaki City-based Eighteenth Bank announced plans to eliminate 50 of the roughly 170 ATMs they’ve placed outside their branches. The bank’s objective is to save money and to ...
Jun 18, 2009 Local News
Overseas Survey Conducted for Fukuoka City Name Recognition
The Fukuoka Asian Urban Research Center conducted a survey questionnaire in February and March of residents in the coastal areas of China and the major cities of South Korea to det...
Jun 11, 2009 Local News
Kyushu Plagued by Defective Japanese Pear Germination
In the past, only those Japanese pears grown in hothouses were subject to the problem of defective germination, but the problem has now spread to pears grown for cultivation in ope...
Jun 11, 2009 Local News
Record Decline in Shipbuilding Orders in 2008
The Kyushu District Transport Bureau submitted its report on shipbuilding orders for the 58 shipyards in Kyushu and western Yamaguchi Prefecture in FY 2008. The bureau calculated t...
Jun 11, 2009 Local News
Imari High School Student Takes Top Prize at Japan Minwa Festival
Anna Rikitake, a 16-year-old high school student in Imari, Saga Prefecture, took the Grand Prize in the 22nd Japan Minwa (Folk Music) Festival 2009 held at NHK Hall in Tokyo and sp...
Jun 11, 2009 Local News
Kumamoto City to Relinquish Municipal Bus Company
Kumamoto City revealed it will convey operations for the city-owned bus company to local private sector bus companies by March 2016. As of 2007, the bus company had aggregate losse...
Jun 11, 2009 Local News
Handball Star to Play in Spain
Oita native Daisuke Miyazaki, the premier male handball player in Japan, has passed the test to play for Alcobendas, a team in the top Spanish handball league, and will reportedly ...
Jun 11, 2009 Local News
Kyushu Companies Planning Overseas Business Expansion
The Fukuoka Financial Group (FFG) and the Kyushu Economic Research Center released a report on their February 2008 survey of the Asian business strategies of Kyushu companies. Of t...
Jun 11, 2009 Local News
Receipt Requirement for Beppu Council Members Reaps Windfall
Starting in FY 2008, members of the Beppu City Council were required to append receipts for any expenditure over one yen for so-called policy research expenditures. The money is pr...