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In advance of the crowded conditions expected at fiscal and business yearend, Sagara Ward in Fukuoka City has instituted a system for the ward office in which information on the number of people waiting to be served at the office is distributed on the ward’s website and on cell phones. Trials of the system began on the 8th. It will allow people with business to conduct at the office to better time their visits and cut down on the length of their wait. They are the second municipal office in the nation to implement such a system, after Yokohama.