Fukuoka, Busan Mayors to Call for Regional Economic Zone
At a meeting in Busan, South Korea, on the 24th, Busan Mayor Hur Nam-sik and Mayor Hiroshi Yoshida of Fukuoka City agreed to make a joint declaration in August calling for the crea...
Fukuoka, Busan Mayors to Call for Regional Economic Zone
At a meeting in Busan, South Korea, on the 24th, Busan Mayor Hur Nam-sik and Mayor Hiroshi Yoshida of Fukuoka City agreed to make a joint declaration in August calling for the crea...
Fukuoka, Busan Mayors to Call for Regional Economic Zone
At a meeting in Busan, South Korea, on the 24th, Busan Mayor Hur Nam-sik and Mayor Hiroshi Yoshida of Fukuoka City agreed to make a joint declaration in August calling for the crea...
ANA to Offer Round Trip Discounts between Different Airports
All Nippon Airways will begin a service in July 1 that will allow passengers between northern Kyushu and the Tokyo or Kansai regions to receive discount round trip fares even if th...
Joint Japanese-Korean Comics Festival Planned
The four Japanese prefectures and one city and three South Korean provinces facing the Tsushima Strait plan to hold the 2008 Japan-Korea Comics Festival in early August in Busan, S...
Fukuoka City Facilities for the Aged Report 82 Accidents in Five-Year Period
Three facilities providing long-term care for the aged in Fukuoka City have reported a total of 82 accidents involving the patients over the past five years. Of these, 29 resulted ...
Efforts Underway to Institute Height Limits on Hakata Ward Buildings
Fukuoka City has begun holding explanatory meetings with citizens and landowners with the intention of creating a municipal ordinance that will limit the height of new buildings in...
Kyushu University Business School to Administer Entrance Exams in China
Kyushu University’s graduate school of business announced that beginning next year it will conduct its entrance exams in Dalian, China. The declining child population in Japa...
Good Start for Nishitetsu nimoca Card
The launch of Nishi-Nippon Railroad’s nimoca contactless payment card has been successful. The cards were first issued a month ago, and since then about 74,000 cards have bee...
New Industrial Park to be Built in Kikuchi
Kumamoto Prefecture will build a new industrial park in the prefectural city of Kikuchi as part of their five-year plan that starts in FY 2008. The prefecture will try to attract c...
South Kyushu Guidebook Selling Briskly
Sales have been excellent for the Sasuga South Kyushu Rating Guide 2007-2008 published in March 2007 by a committee whose members include JR Kyushu and the prefectural governments ...