Second Convention Center for Fukuoka
The carpark of Marine Messe will be the site of a new convention center for Fukuoka City. The new center will be smaller and construction will not begin until next year, at the ear...
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800 Chinese to Study Fukuoka City Hall
Fukuoka City Mayor, Soichiro Takashima, announced July 3 that Fukuoka City will accept 800 Chinese public servants to study Fukuoka City’s waste processing, water treatment and des...
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Nagazumi Promoting its Nightlife
The Nagazumi area of Fukuoka City will have an event to promote the area July 2~8. About 20 bars and restaurants in the area are joining and each premises is offering special disco...
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Kyushu Electric Announces Plans for Rolling Blackouts
Kyushu Electric released details of its plans for rolling blackouts this summer in the event of a power shortage. If the utility anticipates their surplus supply capacity will disa...
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Sony to Expand Nagasaki Plant Capacity
Sony announced that it will expand the capacity of the Nagasaki Technology Center in Isahaya, Nagasaki Prefecture, a plant operated by its Fukuoka City-based subsidiary Sony Semico...
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First Hotto Motto Opens in South Korea
Fukuoka City-based Plenus, which operates the Hotto Motto takeout bento chain, has opened its first South Korean outlet in Seoul. The shop offers 30 different bento varieties, iden...
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Kyushu Has Youngest Companies in the Nation
A survey by Teikoku Databank has revealed that the average age of companies in the Kyushu/Okinawa Prefecture region as of the end of 2011 is 26.4 years, the lowest of nine blocs in...
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Kyushu Electric Collected 4.9 Million in Excess Fees
Kyushu Electric Power announced that it had collected 4.9 million yen in excess charges from 23 companies from September 2008 to March 2012 for supplying electric power when the su...
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JR Kyushu to Convert Consumption Tax Increase to Fare Hike
JR Kyushu President Koji Karaike said that the railroad would convert any consumption tax increase into a fare increase in conjunction with a tax rise in stages. When the consumpti...
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Decade-Long Decline for Kyushu Long-Distance Ferry Passengers
The Kyushu Transport Bureau released the results of its survey for 2011 of the long-distance ferries operated by five companies on eight routes between Kyushu and the Kansai and To...