Shibaura Group to Build Megasolar Plant in Saga City
Shibaura Group Holdings of Kitakyushu revealed it had signed an agreement with Saga City to build a megasolar power plant there on the site of a water purification plant that’s bee...
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Chinese Solar Cell Company Eyes Kyushu
Chinese solar cell manufacturer Hareon Solar Corp. announced plans to open a Japanese subsidiary in Fukuoka City, the Chinese press is reporting. The objective is to establish a pr...
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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...
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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...
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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.
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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.
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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...
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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...
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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 ...
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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.