Hand-foot-mouth Outbreak Sweeps Japan
There is a nationwide outbreak of hand, foot and mouth disease among Japanese infants and toddlers. According to statistics compiled by the National Institute of Infectious Disease...
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Domestic Visitors to Kyushu Decline
According to a domestic visitor survey conducted by Tokyo-based Recruit Lifestyle, the number of visitors to the seven prefectures of Kyushu fell 580,000 to 17.22 million year-on-y...
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Welfare Benefits Outstrip Minimum Wage Salaries in Fukuoka
According to calculations released by the Fukuoka Labor Bureau on Aug. 5, the take-home pay of a person working at the nationally-mandated prefectural minimum wage in the cities of...
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Nishi-ku Developer Scraps Plans, Builds Spring Water Station
Itoko Shindo, a real estate developer who had planned to build an apartment building in Nishi-ku, abruptly decided to build a water filling station after potable hot spring water w...
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Kurume to Sell Power Made from Sludge Gas
Starting in FY 2014, Kurume City will begin using methane and other digester gases produced during the wastewater treatment process to generate electricity. Kurume will make use of...
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Sake from Yame Takes Top Honors
Kotaru Kinoshita, president of Yame-based sake brewery Kitaya, visited Governor Ogawa at the Fukuoka Prefectural Office on July 31 to report that his Daiginjo Gokujo Kitaya was nam...
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Fukuoka to Play Host to International Conference on Hydrogen Fuel Cells
The International Partnership for Hydrogen and Fuel Cells in the Economy (IPHE), an international organization working for the commercial utilization of fuel cells, will hold its S...
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First Mention of ‘Fukuoka’ Name Dated to 1602
Research conducted by the Fukuoka City Museum has revealed that the place name 'Fukuoka' first appeared in a renga (linked verse poem) written by Kanbei Kuroda, the founding father...
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Camellia World to Open in Kurume
Kurume, one of the foremost camellia growing regions in Japan, plans to build Camellia World, an exhibition center for camellias, including wild camellias from China and Vietnam. C...
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e-ZUKA Smartphone App Contest 2013
Iizuka City is currently holding a contest for smartphone app development, with a grand prize of ¥300,000! Themes for the possible apps are provided by Iizuka City and various comp...
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