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Sales Figures for Kyushu Department Stores and Supermarkets Released
The Kyushu Bureau of Economy, Trade and Industry have released April's preliminary sales figures for department stores and supermarkets (across 427 facilities) in the region. Incre...
Kyuden Introduces New AI Named Quun
Kyushu Electric Power Co., Inc. (Kyuden) announced on June 6 that a new AI speaker service called Quun will hit the market at the end of July. Customers will be able to hear news r...
ANA Re-introduces Fukuoka-Miyako Flight Route
All Nippon Airways (ANA) has restarted a direct flight between Fukuoka and Miyako, Okinawa following a 20-year hiatus in operations. The route was re-introduced on June 1 and will ...
New ANA Cargo Plane Route Goes Into Operation
ANA Holdings' new regular cargo route, which will call at Kitakyushu Airport late on Mondays, went into operation on June 4. The company's freight plane will fly from Kansai to Kit...
Rizing Zephyr Fukuoka Appoints New Non-Executive Directors
Rizing Zephyr Fukuoka announced on June 5 that Fukuoka natives Takafumi Horie and Takeshi Aso have been appointed as non-executive directors of the team. Both business persons hav...
New Sports Arena Opens in Kurume
A new multipurpose sports arena, one of the largest of its kind in Kyushu, has opened in Higashikushihara-machi, Kurume City. The Kurume Arena has a total floor space of approximat...
Kyuden to Carry Out Experiments on Electric Vehicles
Kyushu Electric Power Co., Inc. (Kyuden) announced on May 31 that they will carry out substantive experiments on electric vehicles (EV). Starting from this June, the company will a...
Luxury Apartments on Old Daimyo Elementary Site Eye Foreign Tenants
As part of the efforts to redevelop the site of the old Daimyo Elementary School, Sekisui House and Nishi-Nippon Railroad will build furnished luxury service apartments with an eye...
Decrease in Cruise Ships Using Kyushu Ports
Preliminary statistics released by the Ministry of Land, Infrastructure and Transport's Kyushu Regional Development Bureau have revealed that a total of 106 cruise ships called at ...
New JR Train Station to Open in Itoshima
JR Kyushu announced on May 30 that their new station in Itoshima City, to be located between Chikuzen-Maebaru and Hatae stations, will be called Itoshima Koko-mae. This will be JR ...