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Jun 17, 2014

Fukuoka City to Launch Startup Cafe

Fukuoka City, which was recently designated a National Strategic Zone for Job Creation, announced plans to open a Startup Café as a one-stop shop for startup consultations and supp...

Jun 17, 2014

Kyuden Plants Aging, Tension Rises Ahead of Peak Season

Kyushu Electric Power Company’s fossil fuel-fired power plants are aging. Of Kyuden’s 27 plants, 9 have been in operation for more than 30 years, and two are more than 40 years old...

Jun 17, 2014

Fukuoka Gets First Flyboard

Fukuoka now has Flyboard, a marine sport that uses water jetpack to propel riders into the air. Fukuoka native Yusuke Shogamoto was working as a marine sports instructor in Okinawa...

Jun 13, 2014

Birth Rates Up, But Population Down in Kyushu Region

Despite having some of the highest birth rates in the nation, the nine prefectures of the Kyushu-Okinawa-Yamaguchi region are losing population as young people move away according ...

Jun 13, 2014

Ezra Vogel Wins Fukuoka Grand Prize

Winners of the 2014 Fukuoka Prize were announced on 6/11, and Dr. Ezra Vogel, a sociologist, author and Harvard professor, was awarded the Grand Prize. Vogel, 83, is the author of ...

Jun 13, 2014

Kyuden Girds for Competition in Retail Power Sales

In response to the government’s decision to fully liberalize the retail electricity market in FY2016, Kyushu Electric Power Co.has begun discussing the possibility of turning some ...

Jun 13, 2014

Kitakyushu, Prefecture to Help China Tackle PM2.5

The Japanese Ministry of the Environment has compiled the details of a China-Japan urban cooperation project to tackle PM 2.5 air pollution in China. Nine Japanese municipalities, ...

Jun 12, 2014

Gender Section to be Removed from Some City Certificates

Fukuoka City has decided to remove the gender section from name stamp certificates. Name stamp certificates are required to purchase real estate and automobiles, but people with ge...