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Sep 11, 2009 Local News
Showa Shell Sekiyu to Build Solar Cell Plant in Miyazaki
Showa Shell Sekiyu said it had purchased property in Kunitomi-cho, Miyazaki Prefecture, to build one of the largest solar cell plants in Japan. They plan to invest about 100 billio...
Sep 11, 2009 Local News
Kagoshima Shochu Shipments Down Second Year Running
A federation of shochu distillers in Kagoshima Prefecture revealed that shipments of shochu from local companies in the business year from July 2008 to June 2009 fell 1.7% from the...
Sep 11, 2009 Local News
New Weather Radar Stations for Northern Kyushu
The Ministry of Land, Infrastructure, and Transport will install four new, high-performance weather radar stations in northern Kyushu in FY 2010 to deal with the recent increase in...
Sep 11, 2009 Local News
August Has Fewest Regional Bankruptcies to Date
The Fukuoka branch of Tokyo Shokoh Research released their statistics for the number of bankruptcies with liabilities of at least 10 million yen in the Kyushu/Okinawa region for Au...
Sep 11, 2009 Local News
Local Government Welfare Benefits for Students Hits Record High
The Nishinippon Shimbun conducted a survey of municipal government financial assistance to individual primary school and junior high school students in the Kyushu prefectural capit...
Sep 11, 2009 Local News
Number of People in Fisheries Industry at All-Time Low
Fukuoka Prefecture and the Japanese government conducted a joint census of people in the fisheries industry for 2008, which revealed a decline of 3.9% to 6,147 people engaged in th...
Sep 11, 2009 Local News
Stamps Commemorating Friendship Year Unveiled
The Kyushu branch of Japan Post and the Busan post office in South Korea unveiled their respective versions of postage stamps to commemorate the Fukuoka-Busan Friendship Year. Both...
Sep 3, 2009 Local News
DPJ Now Strongest Party in Kyushu
The results of the landslide victory by the Democratic Party of Japan in the recent lower house elections means that the party has for the first time won the most number of seats i...
Sep 3, 2009 Local News
Nishitetsu Group Civil Engineering Companies to Merge
The Nishi-Nippon Railway Co. (Nishitetsu) revealed that three of its group companies involved with civil engineering work would merge as of October 1. One objective of the merger i...
Sep 3, 2009 Local News
All Nishitetsu Buses Now Accept nimoca Cards
Fukuoka City-based Nishi-Nippon Railroad (Nishitetsu) announced that all of the route buses operated by the Nishitetsu Group now accept the contactless payment card nimoca. This is...
