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AKB48 Specialty Shop Opens in Fukuoka City
The AKB48 Café & Shop Hakata, selling merchandise from the AKB48 and HKT48 singing groups, opened on the 20th in Fukuoka City. It is the third shop nationwide bearing the AKB48 bra...
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Sharp Increase in Companies Moving from Tokyo to Kyushu
The Fukuoka office of Teikoku Databank released the results of its survey of companies that moved their headquarters either to or away from the Kyushu/Okinawa region in 2011. While...
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Trials to Use Hot Springs for Power to Begin
Unzen in Nagasaki Prefecture and Oguni-machi in Kumamoto Prefecture plan to begin trials of power generating systems using local hot springs. The two municipalities were chosen for...
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Three Ministries Certify Saga Historical Program
The Ministry of Land, Infrastructure, and Transport, in addition to the education and agriculture ministries, have certified a Saga City program for restoring historical buildings ...
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Nangoku Corporation to Build Megasolar Plant
Kagoshima Prefecture trading company Nangoku Corporation, whose mainstay business is gasoline sales, announced plans to build a megasolar power plant in the prefecture as early as ...
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JR Kyushu Appoints First Female Division Head
JR Kyushu named Yumi Akagi (43) to be the head of its operations and planning division. Akagi thus becomes the first female division head in the company’s history. She was hired by...
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More Local Governments Accepting Tohoku Debris for Disposal
A growing number of legislative bodies in Kyushu local governments are passing legislation to accept the debris from the Tohoku disaster for disposal. The trend started with the pa...
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Four Shinkin Banks Back Medical Corporation
Four shinkin banks in Fukuoka Prefecture, working through business ties formalized as the Global Shinkin Group, have joined with the Shinkin Central Bank in Tokyo to provide 3.1 bi...
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Kumamoto – Kagoshima Traffic up 65% with Shinkansen Service
JR Kyushu announced ridership results since the opening of the Kyushu Shinkansen last year. There was an increase in passengers on existing lines between Hakata – Kumamoto by 38% f...