Dial 110 for Hand Grenade Alerts
The Fukuoka police became the first police department in the country to institute a hot line for tips on hand grenades. The police will pay 100,000 yen for each hand grenades found...
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Sharp Rise in Regional Sales of Health Food Products
The Fukuoka branch of Teikoku Databank revealed the results of its survey of the sales of the 50 top companies in the health food business in the Kyushu – Okinawa region in FY 2010...
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Saibu Gas Gets into Bottled Water Business
Saibu Gas announced the launch of a business to manufacture and sell drinking water. A new wholly-owned company they formally established on April 2 outsources the production of bo...
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Everlife to Establish Taiwan Presence
Health food product mail order company Everlife of Fukuoka City announced plans to begin mail order sales this fall in Taiwan through a new local subsidiary in Taipei. Products wil...
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Kyushu Electric to Cut 129 Billion Yen in Expenses
Kyushu Electric Power released its operating guidelines for FY 2012, which include a policy to immediately cut 120 billion yen from its budget for capital investment, repair, and ...
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Starflyer Pitches First Overseas Flight in Busan
Kitakyushu-based airline Starflyer held a conference in Busan, South Korea, for local travel agents to provide details for its first regularly scheduled international flight, which...
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Yufuin Ryokan to Sell Hot Spring-Generated Electricity to Kyushu Electric
A ryokan, or Japanese-style inn, in Yufuin, Oita Prefecture, will generate electricity using the hot springs on the site using a 70 kW generator that went on sale last fall from Ko...
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Shift in School Trips to Kyushu
Since the Tohoku disaster last year, public junior high schools in the Kinki region have been shifting the destinations of their school trips from the Kanto area to Kyushu. The inf...
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New Ferry to Remote Nagasaki Islands
On Apr. 1, Kyushu Yusen launched a new ferry service- connecting Hakata with the Tsushima & Iki Islands (Nagasaki Prefecture). The “Kizuna” ferry takes around 4.5 hours to reach Na...
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Fly Like a Star for ¥10,000 to Tokyo!
StarFlyer is offering discount flights from Fukuoka to Haneda for just ¥10,000 on Wednesdays between the 4/4 ~ 6/27 with five rounds trip per day. Tickets sold up until the previou...