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Jan 22, 2009 Local News
Near Majority Favors Airport Expansion Plan
A council created by the national government, Fukuoka Prefecture, and Fukuoka City to examine ways to relieve congestion at the Fukuoka Airport has analyzed citizen input, it was l...
Jan 22, 2009 Local News
Daihatsu Kyushu Delays Plant Expansion
Daihatsu Kyushu, based in Nakatsu, Oita Prefecture, announced it would postpone the expansion of its engine plant in Kurume, Fukuoka Prefecture, that it had planned for FY 2009. Da...
Jan 22, 2009 Local News
Fewer Huis ten Bosch Patrons
The Huis ten Bosch resort facility in Sasebo, Nagasaki Prefecture, announced the number of paying customers in 2008 fell 9% from the previous year to 2.2 million people. It was the...
Jan 22, 2009 Local News
Regional Department Store Sales Down
The Kyushu Department Store Association announced on the 19th that sales for 28 stores in the Kyushu-Okinawa region in 2008 dropped 4.7% from the previous year to 681.268 billion y...
Jan 22, 2009 Local News
Bird Collision Total in 2007 at Kyushu Airports: 280
After the crash landing of a passenger aircraft in the Hudson River in New York when it collided with a bird, the Nishinippon Shimbun reported there were about 280 incidences of ai...
Jan 22, 2009 Local News
Fish Cuisine Blog Very Popular
Gas station operator Kazuo Fujiyoshi of Miyaki-cho, Saga Prefecture, started a blog presenting easy recipes to cook fish as a way to improve his culinary skills. It became so popul...
Jan 22, 2009 Local News
Further Cutbacks in Toyota Kyushu Production
Fukuoka Prefecture-based Toyota Motors Kyushu announced it would further reduce its planned production totals for FY 2008 to achieve a level of roughly 290,000 units. The company’s...
Jan 22, 2009 Local News
Extension of Nanakuma Subway Line Mulled
Due to sluggish rider totals, Fukuoka City said it is seriously considering building an extension of the Nanakuma Municipal Subway line from the Tenjin Minami Station through Canal...
Jan 22, 2009 Local News
Kyushu Auto Production to Fall Short of One Million Units
Nissan announced its final plans for FY 2008 auto production at its domestic plants, revealing that it would cut back on initially planned production by 289,000 units, or 20.8%. It...
Jan 16, 2009 Local News
Kyushu Regional Bankruptcies Hit Five Year-High
The Fukuoka branch of Tokyo Shoko Research revealed its statistics for corporate bankruptcies with liabilities of 10 million yen or more for the Kyushu-Okinawa region in FY 2008. A...