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Nagasaki Prefecture to Subsidize Islanders’ Travel for Long-Term Care
The government of Nagasaki Prefecture announced that starting next year, it will provide subsidies to both professional long-term care providers to travel by ship to the prefecture’s outlying islands when residents there require their services, and to the people who live on those islands who require the care and must travel to receive it. The [...]
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Not Thinking of Successors, Say 40% of Fukuoka Small Business Owner
The Fukuoka Chamber of Commerce and Industry revealed the results of its survey that shows roughly 40% of the people in charge of small and medium-sized businesses in the prefecture haven’t given a thought to possible successors. In contrast, 44% say they have considered the problem, while 14% said they are thinking of shutting down [...]
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Solar Cell Evaluation Facility to be Built in Tosu
The National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology will open the country’s first facility for testing and evaluating the performance of solar cells in Tosu, Saga Prefecture, this spring. Solar cells are viewed as a clean energy source because they do not emit CO2, which some consider a cause of global warming. Several companies [...]
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Rare Metals Adsorbed with Fruit Rinds
A team of researchers at Saga University announced they have developed an adsorption agent made with materials from fruit rinds and old paper capable of the selective recovery of platinum, palladium, and other rare metals used in the manufacture of PCs and cell phones. The process costs less than half that of conventional recovery methods [...]
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New Produce Market/Restaurant Zone Planned for Island City
Fukuoka City revealed plans to establish what it called a “Nigiwai Zone” on Island City, an artificial island in the city’s Hakata Ward, with a new produce market, an area selling locally grown fruits and vegetables, and restaurants and shops offering meals using the produce as ingredients. The objective is to promote Fukuoka foods among [...]
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Hiwatashi Reelected as Takeo Mayor
Keisuke Hiwatashi was reelected as the mayor of Takeo, Saga Prefecture, in a special election held as a result of debate over privatizing the municipal hospital, which has aggregate debts of 630 million yen. The local doctors’ association and some city council members opposed Mayor Hiwatashi’s plan to sell the hospital to private interests in [...]
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Move to Resume Festival Bashing Starts in Imari
The highlight of the Imari Tontenton Festival, held every year in October, was the clash of groups trying to overturn each other’s 600-kilogram mikoshi, or portable floats. In 2006, one high school boy was killed and another received a spinal cord injury during the festival, which resulted in the cancellation of the festival in 2007. [...]
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Kyushu’s Longest Pier Built in Nagasaki
The Ministry of Land, Infrastructure, and Transport finished work on the construction of a 360-meter pier at the Port of Nagasaki. The pier, which is the longest in the Kyushu-Yamaguchi Prefecture region, will be capable of serving as the berth for the world’s largest ships (100,000 ton-class). In conjunction with the work on the pier, [...]
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Cyber-Business Conferences Planned by Fukuoka City and Busan
The Chambers of Commerce of Fukuoka City and Busan, South Korea, have agreed to launch business conferences over the Internet in March. The conferences are designed to strengthen ties between the two groups as part of their efforts to create a supra-regional economic sphere. The South Koreans suggested the idea as a way to save [...]
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Hydrogen Product Testing Center to be Established
The national government and Fukuoka Prefecture plan to establish Japan’s first center for certifying the safety of hydrogen products to meet the needs stemming from research into hydrogen as an energy source. The center will be located in Maebaru near the Kyushu University campus. They hope to develop international safety standards for hydrogen products, which [...]
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