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Sep 15, 2011 Local News
Omuta Plans Questionnaire Survey to Boost Shinkansen Use
Fewer passengers are using the Kyushu Shinkansen at the new Omuta Station than was hoped, so the city of Omuta will conduct a questionnaire survey of 2,300 citizens and JR riders f...
Sep 15, 2011 Local News
Kitakyushu Bank to Focus on Community Ties
Yamaguchi Financial Group President Koichi Fukuda held a news conference on the 12th in regard to the policies of the affiliated Bank of Kitakyushu, which will open for business on...
Sep 15, 2011 Local News
Office Vacancies Rise in Central Fukuoka City
The Fukuoka City branch of business relocation service provider Miki Shoji released its monthly survey of office occupancy for the end of August in central Fukuoka City. It found t...
Sep 15, 2011 Local News
JA Fukuoka Creates Cosmetics with Strawberries
JA of Fukuoka City has jointly developed with the Chikuzen-machi-based cosmetics manufacturer Horin a line of cosmetics using ingredients from the locally grown Amao strawberry. It...
Sep 15, 2011 Local News
38% Increase in JR Hakata-Kumamoto Ridership
JR Kyushu released statistics for ridership on the Kyushu Shinkansen in the six months since its full operation began in March. The number of passengers between Hakata and Kumamoto...
Sep 15, 2011 Local News
Independent Investigators Find Gov. Furukawa Asked Kyushu Electric to Send E-mails
An independent investigative committee released an interim report stating that Saga Prefecture Gov. Yasushi Furukawa asked Kyushu Electric Power to send e-mails supporting the resu...
Sep 15, 2011 Local News
Nagasaki City and Oita City to Form Tourism Alliance
Nagasaki City and Oita City have agreed to form a tourism alliance based on the theme of Ryoma Sakamoto. They will jointly produce television programs to promote tourism, and use i...
Sep 8, 2011 Local News
Saga Prefecture to Set Radiation Monitoring Stations in Prefecture
Saga Prefecture, the location of the Genkai nuclear power plant, said that it would set up 20 stations throughout the prefecture to monitor radiation levels. The prefecture is alre...
Sep 8, 2011 Local News
JR Hakata City Outshining Tenjin
Six months after the opening of the JR Hakata City shopping complex at the JR Hakata Station, statistics indicate they are drawing customers away from the Tenjin area, Kyushu’s lar...
Sep 8, 2011 Local News
Fukuoka Asia Collection Exhibited in Dalian
The first exhibition of the Fukuoka Asia Collection fashion show in Dalian, China, began on September 4th and will last four days. The show includes the presentation of clothing ma...