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Nishi-Nippon City Bank in Joint Financing of Kagoshima Cancer Facility
The Fukuoka-based Nishi-Nippon City Bank and seven other financial institutions announced they will provide a total of four billion yen in financing to the Medipolis Medical Resear...
Tamana Clam Industry Threatened
A large increase in the amount of Ulva pertusa algae (anaaosa in Japanese) in the Ariake Sea off Tamana, Kumamoto Prefecture, is covering the tidelands that are the habitat of loca...
Development Bank of Japan Signs Agreement with Oita City
The Development Bank of Japan signed an agreement with Oita City to form a partnership and provide advice on urban development, the promotion of industry, and other aspects of the ...
Museum Breaks Yoshinogari Treasures
The Shiga Prefecture Azuchi Castle Archaeological Museum revealed that a museum employee dropped some blue glass tubular beads it had borrowed from the Yoshinogari historical site ...
North Kyushu Auto Production Drops 14% in 2008
The aggregate automobile production by the three automakers in northern Kyushu in FY 2008 stood at 961,000 units, a 14.7% drop from the previous year and a decline to a level near ...
Popularity of Miyazaki Products Waning
The shop selling products from Miyazaki Prefecture in Tokyo’s Shinjuku Ward suffered a sharp 21.4% year-on-year decline in sales in FY 2008, it was learned. Sales had surged with t...
North Kyushu Auto Production Drops 14% in 2008
The aggregate automobile production by the three automakers in northern Kyushu in FY 2008 stood at 961,000 units, a 14.7% drop from the previous year and a decline to a level near ...
Popularity of Miyazaki Products Waning
The shop selling products from Miyazaki Prefecture in Tokyo’s Shinjuku Ward suffered a sharp 21.4% year-on-year decline in sales in FY 2008, it was learned. Sales had surged with t...
Population Shift to Fukuoka Slows
The Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communications released its statistics for population shifts in 2008, which shows that while the trend within Kyushu for population to flow int...
Fuji-cho to Become Information Village
Saga Prefecture has designated Fuji-cho to be the model district in its “information village” program to use information and communications technology for local development. The ob...