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The key part of preparations for Japan’s first plutonium-thermal power generation was completed Sunday as Kyushu Electric Power Co finished loading plutonium-uranium mixed oxide, or MOX, fuel into a reactor at its Genkai nuclear power plant in Saga Prefecture a...

Executive chairman of the organisation Andrew Goodsell made his comments following research by Saga which indicated that people could be missing out on about £300 a year by not shopping around. He pointed out that many people are not getting...

A remake of the 1981 film The Howling has been announced days after the werewolf-filled T wilight Saga: New Moon scored the third largest opening weekend : Coincidence? We think not, considering that a former studio marketing exec, Joe Nimziki,...

Shoko Nakamura, the 29-year-old principal dancer of the Staatsballett Berlin, is back in Japan for a well-earned vacation and to make her debut in a classic role. Known simply as "Shoko" throughout the international ballet world, she will be playing...

While the hard-drinking slugger who stars in a serial baseball ''manga'' comic book retired recently, the real-life former ball-playing boozer who inspired the character runs a ''yakitori'' chicken skewers restaurant with no plans to stop anytime soon.      Yasutake Kageura, the...

Akihiro Nose immersed himself in research into the application of ice plant to forestall damage to soil caused by salt and never thought of eating it until a student suggested it might be edible.      Nose, a professor at Saga University's...

What is believed to be the oldest hair ever discovered in Japan has been put on display in an exhibition in Saga Prefecture until Nov. 23. The tuft, discovered in 1968 in an ancient tomb in Yoshinogari, Saga Prefecture, is...

She said policemen and women were experiencing "huge stress levels in terms of the way they are perceived by the population". The public's distrust of police officers, coupled with the highly stressful conditions under which they were working and their...

Mamoru Muta considers this an important year in determining whether a new variety of rice he is growing will take root as a product of Saga Prefecture. The 61-year-old farmer in the city of Saga is cultivating the type called...