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Daihatsu Kyushu’s Aggregate Production Tops One Million Units
Oita Prefecture-based minicar and compact car manufacturer Daihatsu Kyushu produced its one millionth auto at its Oita plant. The factory opened in November 2004, so it took just four years and three months to reach that level. The company expects to build 320,000 autos this year, down by 10,000 units from its original projections, due [...]
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Takeoff/Landing Cycles Decline by 7500 at Fukuoka Airport
Debate is continuing about ways to relieve congestion at the Fukuoka Airport, which is nearing capacity, but a preliminary report by the airport authorities reveals there was a decline of roughly 7,500 takeoff and landing cycles in 2008. Also, the number of passengers using the airport was down by about 60,000 during the year. This [...]
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Chikugo River Bridge Slated for Repair
The bridge over the Chikugo River between Okawa, Fukuoka Prefecture, and Saga City, a nationally designated important cultural treasure, will undergo a major facelift and repair this fall. The work will require two years to complete, and involves strengthening the supports and repainting the surface. The bridge was built in 1935 as part of the [...]
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Regional Department Store Sales Down
The Kyushu Department Store Association announced on the 19th that sales for 28 stores in the Kyushu-Okinawa region in 2008 dropped 4.7% from the previous year to 681.268 billion yen. This was the sixth consecutive annual sales decline for regional department stores. Reworked on a same-store basis to factor out changes since 2001, it was [...]
Read More Jan. 22, 2009, 0:00
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Bird Collision Total in 2007 at Kyushu Airports: 280
After the crash landing of a passenger aircraft in the Hudson River in New York when it collided with a bird, the Nishinippon Shimbun reported there were about 280 incidences of aircraft colliding with birds at the eight major Kyushu airports in 2007. Airports are taking pains to prevent serious accidents due to the collisions, [...]
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Fish Cuisine Blog Very Popular
Gas station operator Kazuo Fujiyoshi of Miyaki-cho, Saga Prefecture, started a blog presenting easy recipes to cook fish as a way to improve his culinary skills. It became so popular among inexperienced men and housewives, however, that he often receives more than 10,000 hits a day. He says the secret to his success is the [...]
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Further Cutbacks in Toyota Kyushu Production
Fukuoka Prefecture-based Toyota Motors Kyushu announced it would further reduce its planned production totals for FY 2008 to achieve a level of roughly 290,000 units. The company’s plans at the beginning of the year called for a normal production level of 440,000 units, but slumping sales in the primary North American market caused the downward [...]
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Extension of Nanakuma Subway Line Mulled
Due to sluggish rider totals, Fukuoka City said it is seriously considering building an extension of the Nanakuma Municipal Subway line from the Tenjin Minami Station through Canal City to the JR Hakata Station. The city estimates construction costs at roughly 45 billion yen. The costs for the extension on this route are cheaper than [...]
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Kyushu Auto Production to Fall Short of One Million Units
Nissan announced its final plans for FY 2008 auto production at its domestic plants, revealing that it would cut back on initially planned production by 289,000 units, or 20.8%. It also announced an additional production cutback of 15,000 units at its largest plant, in Fukuoka Prefecture. Thus, the total production in Kyushu for the year [...]
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Record High Number of Foreigners Use Port of Hakata
Fukuoka City announced that record highs were set in 2008 for the number of foreigners traveling on ships in and out of the Port of Hakata, as well as the volume of overseas container freight passing through the port. There was a 0.2% increase in the number of overseas ship passengers. The falloff in the [...]
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