Starflyer to Operate Charter Flights between Kitakyushu and Seoul
The Kitakyushu-based airline Starflyer presented its business plan for the new fiscal year, which calls for the company to start operating charter flights between the new Kitakyush...
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Gangs Excluded from Fukuoka Bidding
The Fukuoka Prefecture police and the Fukuoka City government have agreed that members of criminal gangs and affiliated companies will be excluded from the open competitive bidding...
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Medical Mall to be Built in Ogi
Plans have been finalized to open this summer in Ogi, Saga Prefecture, a “medical mall” offering several different types of treatment. Mall Ogi, as it will be called, w...
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Minamiaso Conducts Trial of Dual Mode Vehicle
The Minamiaso Railroad in Kumamoto Prefecture conducted a three-day trial with roughly 185 passengers of a dual mode vehicle, which both rides on tracks like a train and on the str...
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Hawks in Dramatic Come-From-Behind Win in Opener
The Fukuoka Softbank Daiei Hawks hosted the Rakuten Golden Eagles in the Yahoo! Dome in Fukuoka City to start their 2008 season. The Hawks were down by two runs going into the bott...
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Trials of East Asian Transportation Smart Card to Begin
The Japanese Ministry of Land, Infrastructure, and Transport announced it will begin trial use in the new fiscal year of a smart card for use as a common railway ticket in Asia. Th...
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Starflyer Forms Business Agreement with Fukuyama Transporting
Kitakyushu-based airline Starflyer formally announced a business arrangement for air freight transport with Fukuyama Transporting Co. of Hiroshima Prefecture. They will start shipp...
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Saga Prefecture the Regional Leader in Information Disclosure
The Japan Citizen’s Ombudsman Association announced its rankings for 2008 for the degree of information disclosure by prefectural and other local governments. The most open p...
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Regional Companies Plan to Sustain Hiring Next Year
A Nishinippon Shimbun survey of 126 large companies in Kyushu and Yamaguchi Prefecture of their anticipated hiring in 2009 found that 101, or 80.1%, planned to hire either more emp...
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Large Percentage of Parents Borrow Money for Higher Education in Tokyo
A survey conducted by a federation of teachers’ unions for private universities in the Tokyo area found that 34.5% of parents in Kyushu borrowed money to defray the expenses ...