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Jan 21, 2019 Local News
Aeon Collaborates with Kamimine Town for Redevelopment
Kamimine Town in Saga Prefecture and Aeon Kyushu agreed to collaborate on a redevelopment project after the closing of Aeon Kamimine in February. The shopping mall's 39,000 square ...
Jan 18, 2019 Local News
Shimatetsu Cafe Train Resumes Service
Shimatetsu Cafe Train resumes service this winter with runs on Jan. 26, Feb. 23 and Mar. 30! With the concept of providing enjoyable transportation, the tour departs Isahaya Statio...
Jan 18, 2019 Local News
Kickboard Share Project Gets Fukuoka City Support
A kickboard share project by AnyPay Inc. was selected as a test project with support from Fukuoka City. The city has supported other AI and IoT experiments which aim to improve or ...
Jan 17, 2019 Local News
Fukuoka City’s Flower Bed Project to Expand
Fukuoka City’s unique initiative for the proliferation of flower beds around the city, One Flower One Citizen, takes new steps this year. The city is calling for flower bed owners ...
Jan 17, 2019 Local News
Kyushu-Okinawa Bankruptcies Up
The Fukuoka branch of Tokyo Shoko Research has reported that the number of corporate bankruptcies with at least ¥10 million in liabilities was 637 in Kyushu-Okinawa area in 2018, a...
Jan 17, 2019 Local News
Delta Airlines to Discontinue Fukuoka-Honolulu Route
From May this year the non-stop flight between Fukuoka International Airport and Honolulu, operated by Delta Airlines, will be terminated as part of Delta Airline’s larger reshuffl...
Jan 16, 2019 Local News
Kyushu Records Over Five Million Overseas Visitors
Kyushu District Transport Bureau has reported that the number of foreigners who entered Japan from the Kyushu area in 2018 will exceed five million for the first time. The figure r...
Jan 15, 2019 Local News
QTnet to Test Facial Recognition AI Automated Shop System
QTnet, a group company of Kyushu Electric Power Co., Inc. will set up an automated shop in Kyushu Institute of Technology Tobata Campus in April 2019. This will be a testing projec...
Jan 15, 2019 Local News
Cruise Ship to Call on Itoshima During Golden Week
It was announced recently that one of Japan’s three largest cruise ships would call on Itoshima during the next Golden Week holiday. The two-thousand-ton cruiser has a capacity of ...
Jan 11, 2019 Local News
Fukuoka City Ropeway Project Moves Forward
On January 9, a Fukuoka City research group concluded that building a cable car connecting Hakata Station and the Port of Hakata could be financially beneficial. The city's prelimi...
