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Jan 28, 2010 Local News
Saibu Gas Opens Model House with Combined Use of Gas and Electricity Power Generation
Saibu Gas opened a model house in Fukuoka City for demonstrating power generation with the Ene-farm fuel cell battery using natural gas and solar power. Dubbed the Soene House, the...
Jan 28, 2010 Local News
Kyushu Expressway Bus Passenger Totals Fall 11% at Yearend
The Kyushu District Transport Bureau released statistics from the 24 companies operating expressway buses on longer routes in Kyushu showing that the number of passengers during th...
Jan 28, 2010 Local News
Kyudenko to Grow Olives
Fukuoka City-based Kyudenko announced it had formed an agreement with Amagusa, Kumamoto Prefecture, to grow olives. The agreement starts in FY 2010 and will run for three years. Th...
Jan 28, 2010 Local News
Regional Department Store Sales Down 10.2%
The Kyushu Department Store Association announced that aggregate sales for the 26 stores from 17 companies in Kyushu and Okinawa Prefecture in 2009 fell 10.2% from the previous yea...
Jan 21, 2010 Local News
Best Denki to Close 30% of Directly Operated Outlets
Fukuoka City-based consumer electronics mass merchandiser Best Denki said they would close from 50 to 70 of their 218 directly operated sales outlets by February 2012. That would m...
Jan 21, 2010 Local News
Fukuoka City Networks with Nine World Cities
Fukuoka City revealed it is one of 10 cities around the world to have created a network in 2008 to discuss different ways to deal with local issues. The cities have held internatio...
Jan 21, 2010 Local News
Problems Plague Construction of Shin-Wakato Highway in Kitakyushu
An inquiry by the Ministry of Land, Infrastructure, and Transport revealed that the project costs for building the Shin-Wakato Highway in Kitakyushu with a tunnel under the Dokai B...
Jan 21, 2010 Local News
Cruise Ships Had Large Economic Benefits for Fukuoka City
Fukuoka City announced the economic benefit from the Chinese cruise ships that called on the Port of Hakata during 2009 amounted to roughly 1.57 billion yen. This year, 66 cruise s...
Jan 21, 2010 Local News
Troubled Izutsu-ya to Get Financial Assistance
Kitakyushu-based Izutsu-ya, the prominent regional department store company, is suffering from financial difficulties. As part of its restructuring plan, it will ask for about 240 ...
Jan 21, 2010 Local News
Aggregate Toyota Kyushu Production Over Four Million Units
Fukuoka Prefecture-based Toyota Kyushu’s aggregate auto production since it opened in December 1992 has climbed above four million units, the company announced. Production at the s...
