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Construction of Shinkansen between Isahaya and Nagasaki Authorized
The Ministry of Land, Infrastructure, and Transport authorized the start of construction on three sections of the Kyushu Shinkansen between Isahaya and Nagasaki City. The distance ...
Fukuoka University Operator Conceals 21 Million Yen in Income
The Fukuoka Regional Taxation Bureau has charged that the corporation operating Fukuoka University concealed roughly 21 million yen in income. The company filed a new income tax st...
Trial Planning Major Expansion
Fukuoka City-based discount store operator Trial Company revealed at a meeting with its corporate customers that it planned to increase the number of stores it operates by 5.6 time...
Agricultural Report for Kyushu Released
The Kyushu Regional Agricultural Administration Office released what is referred to as the Kyushu Agricultural White Paper for FY 2011. As of the end of the fiscal year, in March 2...
Kyushu Electric Power Rejects Plan to Go Nuclear Free
Kyushu Electric Power held its general stockholders’ meeting in a Fukuoka City hotel, and the four-hour duration of the meeting was the longest ever for the utility. Management ans...
Fukuoka City to Publicly Reveal Grades of Yatai Stall Operator Behavior
Studying ways to maintain the street stalls selling food, which are tourist attractions, Fukuoka City said it would start surveying how the operators of all 155 stalls conduct thei...
Foreign Visitors to Kyushu on Record-Setting Pace
The number of foreigners who enter Japan through Kyushu is on a pace to break the record set in 2010, when 1.001 million people came. The numbers were down 27% last year as a resul...
Period for 10% Power Consumption Cutback Request Starts
The period during which the government and Kyushu Electric Power requested at least a 10% reduction in power consumption for the summer began on July 2. The basis for comparison us...
Kyushu Electric Power Sales down Second Month in a Row in May
Kyushu Electric Power reported that power sales by volume in May were down 1.3% from the year-before period to 6.458 billion kWh. That is the second consecutive year-on-year declin...
West Kyushu Shinkansen Construction to Start in August
The Isahaya to Nagasaki Shinkansen route will begin construction in August and will take 10 years to complete. The new shinkansen will make the Hakata to Nagasaki trip in one hour ...