Kyushu Group Develops New Rice Variety
The Kyushu-Okinawa Agricultural Research Center of the National Agricultural and Food Research Organization has developed a new strain of rice it calls tachiharuka. The new rice is...
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Asian Digital Art Awards – Apply Before 10/31
The Asian Digital Art Awards (ADAA), established in Fukuoka in 2001, is holding its annual competition to present works that integrate logic with aesthetics using media technology....
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Demo Against Debris from East Japan
On Oct 21, 100 people demonstrated against debris from the Great East Japan Earthquake being accepted by Kitakyushu City. The demand of the demonstrators is to stop accepting and c...
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Demo Held Against USA Osprey
On Oct 21, 300 people demonstrated in Tenjin against the introduction of the MV 22 Osprey Aircraft to Okinawa. After the official demonstration, a petition was submitted to the Ame...
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Tosu, Saga Woman Crowned Miss International
Ikumi Yoshimatsu from Tosu, Saga Prefecture won the 2012 Miss International Beauty Pageant. This years pageant was held in Okinawa and more than 60 women competed for the title. Th...
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Redback Spiders in Fukuoka City
It was revealed that since 2007, Fukuoka City has been exterminating thousands of redback spiders from Australia. The venomous spiders have recently established colonies across Jap...
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Nishi-Nippon City Bank and JR Kyushu – All In One Card
The Nishi-Nippon City Bank and JR Kyushu agreed to combine the bank’s cash/credit card, the All In One card, with the railroad’s IC card sugoca and the JQ credit card to create a n...
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Fukuoka Built Satellite to Beam Message
In the night sky next month and you may witness a rather unusual phenomenon – a tiny Japanese satellite using LEDs to beam a Morse code message earthwards. The message will come fr...
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JAXA Launches FIT Satellite
The Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency launched three satellites built by Japanese universities, one of which was from the Fukuoka Institute of Technology, from the Japanese wing o...
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Kyushu Electric Sets Upper Limit on Renewable Power in Remote Islands
Kyushu Electric Power became the first utility in Japan to establish an upper limit for the amount of wind- or solar-generated power on remote islands not connected to the national...
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