Doll Makers Busy with Yamakasa Preparation
Celebrations start on July 1st and doll makers are busy making the decorations for the floats that will be raced through the streets of Hakata during the Yamakasa Festival. The fes...
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Oldest Mokkan with Family Register Discovered at Dazaifu
Archaeological excavations at Dazaifu, Fukuoka Prefecture, have unearthed the nation’s oldest mokkan with a family register. A mokkan is a strip of wood used for keeping records du...
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Miyagi Mayor Makes Formal Request to Send Debris
Kitakyushu Mayor Kenji Kitahashi visited Ishinomaki, Miyagi Prefecture, to confirm in person the necessity for the city to accept debris from the Tohoku disaster for incineration a...
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Sewer Sludge Used for Power Generation
The use of processed sewer sludge --- in other words, human waste --- as a biomass fuel for power generation is increasingly being used in Kyushu and throughout the nation. Kumamot...
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Kyushu Electric Share Price Slips below 900 Yen
The share price of Kyushu Electric Power last week slid to 892 yen, the first time since December 26, 1983, that it was below 900 yen. It finally closed for the day at 924 yen. The...
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Four Local Broadcasters Post Higher Profits
The five private sector broadcasters headquartered in Fukuoka City released their business results for the fiscal year ended March 2011. Though revenue from spot commercials (those...
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Kyushu Electric Signs Safety Agreement with Nagasaki Prefecture
Kyushu Electric Power signed a safety agreement with Nagasaki Prefecture and the cities of Matsuura, Sasebo, Hirado, and Ikki in the event of an accident or a disaster at the utili...
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Protester Behavior Prevents Discussion at Kitakyushu Meeting
The city of Kitakyushu convened a town meeting to enable Mayor Kenji Kitahashi to explain to the citizens the policy of accepting rubble from the Tohoku area for incineration local...
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Kyushu Electric Calls for 10% Cutbacks for 13-Hour Period
With the region’s nuclear power plants still idled, Kyushu Electric Power announced it will expand the time period during which it will request a minimum 10% cutback in power consu...
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Regional Companies Less Likely to be Interested in Overseas Presence
The Fukuoka Branch of Teikoku Databank revealed the results of its survey showing that companies in Kyushu and Okinawa Prefecture are less likely than those nationwide to be intere...