Sharp Reduction in New Condos on Market
A Fukuoka City based company monitoring conditions in the housing industry reports that the number of new condominiums coming on the market in the seven Kyushu prefectures from Jan...
Sharp Reduction in New Condos on Market
A Fukuoka City based company monitoring conditions in the housing industry reports that the number of new condominiums coming on the market in the seven Kyushu prefectures from Jan...
Saga Prefecture to Exclude Criminal Groups from Land Purchases
The Saga Prefecture government and the prefectural police signed an agreement to cooperate for excluding criminal groups from purchasing prefecture-owned land or buildings. It has ...
Small Imari Restaurant Wins Monde Selection Award
The Monde Selection international institute in Brussels for evaluating product quality has awarded a gold medal in the food seasonings division to the original salad dressing creat...
University-Based Business Startups Slow
The Kyushu Bureau of Economy, Trade, and Industry released its survey of 2007 venture capital-backed business startups that were developed at universities. Only eight of these comp...
Ariake Sea Red Tide Disrupts Bivalve Reproduction
The Saga Prefecture Maritime Promotion Center released the results of its survey showing that the so-called red tide, caused by harmful plankton, disrupts the breeding of bivalves ...
Fukuoka City Office Occupancy Rate Declines
The Fukuoka City branch of office leasing company Miki Shoji Co. released a report on office occupancy rate in the city as of the end of July. The rate fell by 0.13 percentage poin...
Three Universities Team Up to Develop Car Electronics
Graduate schools of the University of Kitakyushu, the Kyushu Institute of Technology, and Waseda University of Tokyo announced they will form an alliance next April to train person...
Miyazaki Bank Projecting Record Losses
The Miyazaki Bank of Miyazaki City announced it has revised its non-consolidated earnings projections downward for the year ending March 2009. After several large bankruptcies amon...
Kyushu University Group Develops New Catalyst
A research team at the Kyushu University Center for Future Chemistry has developed the world’s first nickel catalyst for extracting electrons from water at a constant temperature a...
Tadao Ando to Design New JR Kumamoto Station Building
Kumamoto Prefecture announced that an agreement has been reached with famed architect Tadao Ando to design the new building at the JR Kumamoto Station in conjunction with the openi...