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Price Competition Heats Up on Busan – Kyushu Transportation Routes
Increasing competition is driving down travel costs between Busan, South Korea, and Kyushu. Kitakyushu-based airline Starflyer announced it will cut round-trip airfares between Kit...
Kyushu Electric’s Nuclear Power Plant Operation Rate at 31% Last Year
The utilization rate of the nuclear power plants operated by Kyushu Electric Power in 2011 fell by 49.7 percentage points to 31.4%. This was the lowest rate since 1975, when the fi...
Kyushu Auto Production Tops 1.3 Million Units
A Nishinippon Shimbun survey revealed that aggregate automobile production in Kyushu in FY 2011 exceeded 1.3 million units.
Fukuoka Coop Nori Sales Down 20%
A Fukuoka Prefecture-based Ariake Sea fisheries cooperative conducted the final sales of the season for the nori cultivated in the prefecture.
Hakata Daimaru Revenue Down for Sixth Straight Year
The Hakata Daimaru department store company based in Fukuoka City announced that sales for the year ended February 2012 totaled 60.714 billion yen, an 8.9% year-on-year decline. Th...
Multilingual Disaster Preparedness Handbook
Fukuoka Pref. released a multilingual handbook for disaster consultation and disaster recovery. The handbook contains data in 5 languages- English, Chinese, Korean,Tagalog and simp...
Delta Air Fukuoka-Honolulu Flights Increase
Delta Airlines will increase flights from Fukuoka to Honolulu in the upcoming summer months. Their June flight schedule will increase from no flights to four flights per week, and ...
Kyushu Mergers and Acquisitions Up
Tokyo-based Recof released the results of its survey of corporate mergers and acquisitions in the seven Kyushu prefectures in FY 2011.
Ringer Hut to Close Fukuoka Headquarters
Ringer Hut, the restaurant chain that specializes in Nagasaki champon, will close its Fukuoka headquarters by the end of June. The objective is to centralize the main office functi...
Kitakyushu Working to Attract Companies to Unused Factory Tracts
The city of Kitakyushu has adopted a policy that designates currently idled land with factories in the city as “public industrial parks within a company”, and will try to attract c...