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02/14/2012

Fukuoka Prefectural Government sponsors the second "Asia Big market", a business matching event in Fukuoka for Japanese and Asian companies, on February 15 and 16, 2012(JST). This year, four presentations by Fukuoka companies will be broadcasted on Ustream with the following schedule. Aqumen will present in English and other companies presentations will be translated to English.

2/14/2012(Tue) 8:30PM-11:45PM(PST) 

USTREAM  http://www.ustream.tv/broadcaster/10396532

　　　　　  http://www.ustream.tv/broadcaster/10396545

Presenting Companies

>Riam-Compact, Co, Ltd.

  (Related Information: Kyushu University Tests Floating Wind Power)

>Seki Furniture, Co, Ltd.

>Fukoku Corporation

>Aqumen Biopharmaceuticals

  (Related Information: Aqumen Biophermaceuticals Enter the European Parket)

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02/14/2012

Milestone News: YouTube
Game Changers: Blippar / MIT / City of Chicago
Fukuoka Highlights: Fastest Car Appears at Fukuoka Motor Show / Net Immigration to Fukuoka City Grows / Fukuoka Offers Medical Support to Non-Japanese Speakers / I-Quark to Offer Light, Inexpensive Walking Aid / Kawasaki Develops Advanced Waste Treatment System / Kyushu University Tests Bicycle Generators in Bangladesh
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01/19/2012

Global Acoustic Technologies, Inc., a US subsidiary of a Fukuoka company, exhibited Aural Sonic on January 19 to 22 at the 2012 NAMM Show in Anaheim, California. Aural Sonic is a ground breaking architectural acoustics technology which creates an ideal listening environment by weakning and delaying reflections that interfere with the direct sound coming from the source. NAMM, the National Association of Music Merchants, and its trade show serve as a hub for people wanting to seek out the newest innovations in musical products, recording technology, sound and lighting.

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01/17/2012

Milestone News: Zynga
Game Changers: Pinterest / Raspberry Pi / Google
Fukuoka Highlights: Fukuoka, A Top Ten Worldwide Travel Destination / “KOOZA” Becomes Fukuoka’s Most Searched Word / Another Hit Product: Kyushu Shinkansen and JR Hakata City / Fukuoka to Focus on Asian Eco-Business / TOTO Achieves World’s Smallest Flush / Navitime Japan Tests Bicycle Parking Search App
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01/15/2012

The Torigoe Co., Ltd. exhibited their low carbohydrate ingredient mix "Pan deSmart" on January 15 to 17 at Fancy Food Show in San Francisco. Pan de Smart is made of roasted fine wheat bran and wheat protein which cuts 80% of non-fiber carbohydrate, and contains 10.5 times dietary fiber and 9.4 times magnesium in comaprison with wheat flour. Low carbohydrate bread rolls or cakes are good for diabetic patients and getting popularity in hospitals in Japan.

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01/12/2012

Frommer's, one of the best selling travel guides in America, selected Fukuoka as one of the world Top 10 Destinations for 2012, together with Bay of Fundy, Beirut, Chongqing, Curacao, Ghana, Girona, Greenwich, Kansas City, and Yukatan Peninsula. Serving as a major domestic and international gateway, Fukuoka has been in the spotlight as a model green city. Visitors are greeted by a vibrant, user-friendly city offering expansive city parks, museums, shopping and dining complexes, and spirited baseball games. It's clear to see why Fukuoka's 1.4 million residents think they live in Japan's most livable city.  » Read More

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12/16/2011

Milestone News: Groupon Game Changers: ReDigi / Umami / Uptake Fukuoka Highlights: Fukuoka City Among the Most Active Hosts of Conferences / Over 90% of Residents Want to Stay in Fukuoka City / RoboPlus Hibikino Develops Ship-Cleaning Robot / Tsubaki Nano Mixes Oil and Water / Roadside Station Tachibana is Japan’s Top Farmer’s Market / SoftBank Hawks Win the Japan Series » More

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12/12/2011

San Francisco-based Heroku, one of the very first cloud Platform as a Service (PaaS) providers, will participate in two special events in the Fukuoka region. Morten Bagai, Heroku's Senior Director of Product Management, and Keith Rarick, Heroku's Product Architect, will speak about Heroku and its new Japanese add-on cloud services at the following events:

e-ZUKA TechNight
December 16, 2011 6:00 pm – 9:00 pm
Iizuka Research and Development Center

This is the first ever tech community event in Iizuka City, Fukuoka Prefecture, and Morichika Saito, Mayor of Iizuka City, will appear to celebrate this event.

Iizuka, under the slogan of "e-ZUKA, Silicon Valley in Asia", is developing new regional industries and focusing on the revitalization of the local economy.

Speakers:
Morten Bagai, Senior Director of Product Management at Heroku
Keith Rarick, Product Architect at Heroku
Kazuaki Tanaka, Associate Professor, Kyushu Institute of Technology
Shigeichiro Yamasaki, Professor, Kinki University
Hideto Sazuka, Associate Professor, Kurume Institute of Technology

Twitter #ezuka_tech_night

Ruby Business Commons (RBC)
December 17, 2011 1:00 pm – 5:30 pm
Fukuoka Prefecture Ruby Content Industry Promotion Center

Ruby Business Commons (RBC) is Japan's largest Ruby developer community. It began in 2007 and is based in Fukuoka. RBC has over 700 members and is one of the most active meetup groups in Fukuoka.

Speakers:
Morten Bagai, Senior Director of Product Management at Heroku
Keith Rarick, Product Architect at Heroku

Twitter #rubybizcommons

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12/02/2011

Kenjiro Takenami, Director of Ruby Software Business Development Project at Fukuoka Prefectural Government, spoke to an audience at Stanford about the government’s success in promoting entrepreneurship in the Fukuoka region of Japan, at a seminar organized by the SPRIE-Stanford Project on Japanese Entrepreneurship (STAJE) on November 3^rd, 2011.
Please visit the following links on Stanford’s website.
» Article of the event
» Announcement of the event