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Kyushu Economy International (KEI) Kyushu Economy International (http://www.kyushu-kei.org) ○Kyushu Economy International (KEI) was established as the primary organization for international economic exchanges in Kyushu in July 2001, as a cooperative venture between local governments, economic bodies, private companies, etc. in Kyushu. ○It aims to impart comprehensive information about Kyushu’s favorable environment as a business location, its resources for tourism, etc. to foreign countries and regions, and to facilitate the creation of new industries and balanced regional development through the establishment of local subsidiaries by the invitation of overseas and domestic companies to Kyushu and industrial exchanges, in order to revitalize Kyushu and stimulate its autonomous development, through international exchanges in business, tourism, and human resources. Organization Outline of operation Constitution: including prefectures, ordinance-designated cities, 1．Planning of internationalization strategies, etc. economic bodies, private companies, etc. Discussing surveys and plans deemed useful and effective when conduct- ed around Kyushu 【General assembly members】 2．Creation and sharing of information «Imparting information about Kyushu» ■Chairman: Chairman, Kyushu Economic Federation Imparting information about the investment environment and econo- ■Vice-Chairman: Chaiman, Kyushu Federation of Chambers my-related programs in Kyushu through the website and PR sources of Commerce and Industry 3．Planning of internationalization strategies, etc. ■Members: Prefectural governors; ordinance-designated city ①Programs for economic and business exchanges with Asia (targeting the Pan-Yel- mayors; heads of economic bodies and private companies low Sea Economic Zone, China, South , and ASEAN); ②Programs for sharing 【Secretary assembly members】 the latest information about overseas operation locations and market trends, the ways ■Secretary-general: Senior Managing Director, Kyushu Eco- of using support programs, and overseas business and the global economy, through holding seminars, etc.; ③Programs for supporting overseas operations, including nomic Federation participating in business exhibitions abroad, and holding business talk sessions with ■Members: Department managers and bureau directors in buyers specializing in foreign markets, in order to support local companies’ expan- charge from prefectures and ordinance-designated cities; sion of their markets into Asia and establishing overseas operations directors of economic bodies, etc. 4．Stimulating the establishment of business «Support for the invitation of □Support organizations: JETRO; Development Bank of , etc. overseas enterprises» □Adviser: Director, Kyushu Bureau of Economy, Trade and Industry Holding business invitation seminars and workshops targeting deci- (METI Kyushu); Director, Kyushu District Transport Bureau; sion-makers, in order to promote the invitation of overseas enterprises □Auditors: Planning & Coordination Department Managers of the effective for the revitalization of the regional economy Organization for Small & Medium Enterprises and Regional 5．Human exchange «Relationship building with international students» Russia Innovation, Japan, etc. Holding networking events and job-hunting interview sessions, in order to General Affairs Department Manager, promote mutual understanding continued relationships with international □Secretariat: Kyushu Economic Federation students, who will be the bridge between Kyushu-based companies operat- Kyushu Bureau of Economy, Trade and Industry (METI Kyushu) ing abroad and foreign countries

Contact：Kyushu Economic Federation International Department International Affairs Department, METI Kyushu Mongolia 2-1-82 Watanabe-dori, Chuo-ku, City 810-004 Tel.: +81-92-761-4261 2-11-1 Hakataeki-higashi, Hakata-ku, Fukuoka City 812-8546 Tel.: +81-92-482-5423

Beijing Kyushu Tourism Promotion Organization ● Japan Kyushu Tourism Promotion Organization (http://www.welcomekyushu.jp) Korea ● ○Kyushu Tourism Promotion Organization was established as a comprehensive public organization for the promotion of Kyushu tourism in 2005, by the seven prefectures in Kyushu and the local business world. China Kyushu ○We are imparting information about the rich tourism resources in Kyushu to international visitors to Kyushu, as well as organiz- Shanghai ● 500km ing PR campaigns for Kyushu brands at tourism exhibitions and business talk sessions, improving tourism resources, and main- Kyushu taining the system for welcoming international visitors. Nepal Bhutan 1,000km Strategies for Kyushu tourism Okinawa Organization Bangladesh Hong Kong ● 2,000km Fukuoka Strategy I: Strategy for Kyushu branding Myanmar Laos General assembly (members) ①Creating a clear tourist image of Kyushu Oita ②Disseminating the image through various channels according to Thailand target country Board of Viet Nam Philippines 3,000km Directors Auditors Strategy II: Strategy for improving tourism infrastructure directors Cambodia ①Activities toward the improvement of physical and human ［Executives］ Chair; Vice Chair; Senior managing director infrastruc ture ②Deregulation and system revision Brunei ③Development of tourism human resources Malaysia Management committee ④Enhancement of tourism resources and hospitality in tourist des tinations in Kyushu Strategy III: Strategy for attracting tourists to Kyushu Executive director ①Attraction of inbound international tourists (by country, city, and market) Deputy executive director ②Attraction of domestic tourists (by market and theme) ③Common strategy (clarification of target markets; PR strategy; use Indonesia New ● of media, etc.) Delhi Strategy IV: Strategy for stimulating long-stay tourism and consumption Kyushu Kyushu in Asia Overseas Domestic Planning Tourism ①Development of wide-area tourist routes India division division division Media ②From passing-by tourism to residential tourism (development of Kyushu consists of Kyushu island and nearby Center night attractions, etc.) smaller islands. It is located at the center of East ③From one-night stay to multiple stays (invitation of residential-type Asia, and geographically near to and events) China. Moreover, Located in the southwestern part of Contact：Kyushu Tourism Promotion Organization Email：[email protected] Japan, it boasts a warm and mild climate with little 2-1-82 Watanabe-dori, Chuo-ku, Fukuoka City 810-0004 Tel.: +81-92-751-2947 snow in the winter, an ideal environment for 6,000km business. 2017.4 Infrastructure information of Kyushu Measure development of Kyushu Advantage of Kyushu’s infrastructure The regional difference index of consumer prices in Convenience in access to Asian countries Fukuoka City is the lowest among major cities. Kyushu has efficient connections to Asia. Kyushu is as near to major cities Strategy for growth: Kyushu-Okinawa ～Kyushu-Okinawa Earth Strategy～ (National average Regional differences of consumer price index in major cities (2015) Flight time is shorter than that to/from in the rest of Asia as to those in = 100) Source: Ministry of Internal 105 104.3 Affairs and Communications, Tokyo by approximately one hour or more. Japan. Kyushu’s strategy for growth to make the best of its rich natural environment and challenge tasks from a global perspective. By combining the four 103.9 104 "Retail Price Survey" strategic fields, Kyushu strives for sustainable development as a gateway to Asia 103 Tokyo Major cities in Japan Major cities in the rest of Asia Fukuoka 102 (Narita) 101.0 (South Korea) 101 99.7 to the downtown area 10 min. 50 min. 100 Seoul (South Korea) Energy & Environment Healthy Health 99 98.3 Busan (South Korea) 55 min. 2 h. 25 min. 98 Tokyo Shanghai (China) smart 97 Seoul (South Korea) 1 h. 25 min. 2 h. 45 min. Qingdao (China) Clean and economical energy supply region Industrial creation of the preventive care and health 96 Dalian (China) city Shanghai (China) 1 h. 50 min. 3 h. 40 min. →advanced hydrogen area enhancement service which aim at a healthy long life 95 Metropolitan Tokyo City City Osaka City Fukuoka City Beijing (China) →based on geothermal ,ocean energy ,etc Promotion of entry and overseas deployment to the Taipei (Taiwan) 2 h. 40 min. 4 h. 15 min. Office and home rental costs in Fukuoka City are about half of what Producing and developing next-generation automobiles medical equipment field they are in the 23 wards of Metropolitan Tokyo. Hong Kong 4 h. 5 h. 25 min. Creation of the new industry in advanced Rent Office and home rental costs in major cities (2015) in Kyushu as a base (yen/m2) medicine and the medical treatment field Average asking rent for offices Housing rent (private sector) Ho Chi Minh 5 h. 40 min. 6 h. 45 min. Excellent access The advanced energy Source：Data compiled by the (Vietnam) Activation of functionality and Kyushu Bureau of Economy, to the down management system Trade and Industry Bangkok (Thailand) 6 h. 7 h. 10 min. health food related industry town area Leading region of energy and Singapore 6 h. 45 min. 7 h. 45 min. Promotion of cosmetics related industry environment industry in Asia Smart Earth Healthcare ●Kyushu's Expressways//International Air Routes/International Cargo Routes（as of January 2017） agriculture tourism Seoul, Busan, Daegu, Beijing, Dalian, Shanghai, Qingdao, Nanjing, Wuhan, Chengdu, Taipei, Kaohsiung, Hong Kong, , Manila, Bangkok, Hanoi, Ho Chi Minh, Singapore, Guam, Honolulu

Metropolitan Tokyo Yokohama City Nagoya City Osaka City Fukuoka City Port of Hakata Western coast of North America(Canada & the U.S.) Port of Southeast Asia(the Philippines; Thailand; Vietnam) Agriculture South Korea,China,Taiwan,Hong Kong Tourism The building investment growth of Fukuoka City is top among major cities. Southeast Asia (Malaysia; the Philippines; Singapore; Thailand; Vietnam;Myanmar) Sales promotion in overseas market Increase rate of estimated construction China, South Korea, Hong Kong, Taiwan, Russia Kitakyushu Airport Implementing second strategy of cost for new buildings(2011ｰ2016) Busan,Seoul,Dalian Development market channel and establishing optimal 60.0% Source: Ministry of Land, Hakata production system tourism in Kyushu 47.7% 49.4% 50.0% Infrastructure, Transport Shanghai Fukuoka Airport The marketing effort of "KYUSHU-BRAND" ・Establishment of the Kyushu brand image and Tourism, "Statistics on Oita Airport 40.0% Seoul Strengthening logistics and a transit system Building Construction Started" Seoul ・Tourism infrastructure development 26.7% Expansion of a business scale/ Construction of stable Food and 30.0% Taichung ・Promotion of “visits Kyushu” Port of Imari supply system 20.0% tourism/ 13.3% Saga Airport ・Promotion of visitor’s stay / 7.3% South Korea Port of Oita Utilizing the renewable energy produced in a farm village 10.0% green China South Korea Development of farming, mountain and fishing villages consumption 0.0% Hong Kong Nagasaki Airport China Metropolitan Tokyo Yokohama City Nagoya City Osaka City Fukuoka City Shanghai tourism Linkage with Cool Japan Seoul Taiwan Port of Miike The number of times cruise ships called at Japanese ports in 2016 reached a record high. South Korea Per individual port, Hakata Port was ranked 1st and Nagasaki Port was 2nd. Port of Hososhima Port of Nagasaki South Korea Unit:Number of cruise- The number of times foreign cruise ships called at Kyushu. Kumamoto Airport China ship visits South Korea 800 Kaohsiung 715 700 Seoul,Taipei,Hong Kong 133 Port of Kumamoto Kyushu’s major industries Port of Yatsushiro 600 South Korea 497 Other South Korea Port of Aburatsu 80 Kyushu is a leading automobile production center in Japan. High-value-added semiconductors China Miyazaki South Korea 500 Sony Semiconductor Manufacturing Corporation, known for its CMOS image 73 Port of Kagoshima Kyushu, where Toyota Motor Kyushu, Inc., Nissan Motor Kyushu Co.,Ltd., Daihatsu Port of Satsuma Airport Port of Shibushi sensors used in Cameras for Smartphones, the Renesas Group, known for its motor 400 51 190 Motor Kyushu Co.,Ltd. and Nissan Shatai Kyushu Co.,Ltd. are operating, has an Port of Nagasaki South Korea Taiwan vehicle integrated circuits (microcomputers), and Mitsubishi Electric Power Device Taiwan Kagoshima Chuo China automobile production capacity of over 1.5 million units, accounting for about 15% of Legend 300 128 South Korea that of Japan as a whole. Additionally, Honda Motor Co.,Ltd. manufactures Factory, known for its power semiconductors used in household appliances and 233 Port of Hakata 228 High-grade trunk road (in use) motorcycles at its Kumamoto Factory. automobiles, also own factories located in Kyushu. 35 Kagoshima Airport 200 151 44 27 83 29 High-grade trunk road (under construction or planning) Change in IC production in Kyushu and entire Japan 6 312 Seoul,Shanghai,Taipei,Hong Kong Change in the number of four-wheeled vehicles produced in Kyushu Number of units Money amount 56 70 (10,000 units) (million units) Number of units Number of units Money amount of Money amount of 45 72 245 produced nationwide produced in Kyushu production nationwide production in Kyushu (Billion yen) 100 13 Urban expressway Major airport 39 5 8 16 99 【Sources】Materials from Kyushu District Transport Bureau & Kyushu Regional Development Bureau Number of four-wheeled Nationwide share 61 17 85 35 Shinkansen Important port 26 vehicles produced in Kyushu 0 19 【“China” in the above diagram indicates mainland China for convenience.】 2010 2011 2012 2013 2014 2015 2016 (year) Source: Ministry of Land, Infrastructure, Transport and Tourism "Port call results of cruise ships in 2016 (quick estimation)," and Kyushu Regional Development Bureau "Kyushu Cruise Report, January issue" Scale of Kyushu’s economy (year) Kyushu has a scale of economy equivalent to that of Thailand. Source：Data compiled by the Kyushu Bureau of Economy, Trade and Industry ・Kyushu, located in the southwestern part of the Japanese archipelago, comprises seven prefectures: Fukuoka, Saga, Nagasaki, Kumamoto, Oita, Miyazaki, and Kagoshima. (year) The birthplace of modern steel plants ・Kyushu has a population of 13 million (10.3% of Japan’s population), and accounts for about 10% of Japan as a whole in area and economic indicators, including GDP, consequently being called a “10% economy.” Source：Data compiled by the Kyushu Bureau of Economy, Trade and Industry Yawata Steel Works, which used to be owned by the government and now belongs to Nippon ・The gross regional Domestic product of Kyushu shows a scale of economy equivalent to that of Thailand (ranked 31st in the world). Kyushu is the major base for food production in Japan. Steel & Sumitomo Metal Corporation, is one steel plant located in Kyushu. Kyushu accounts for Kyushu’ share against Japan as a whole International comparison of Kyushu’s population and regional GDP 15% of national crude steel production. (Comparison with Taiwan and South Korea) Comparison of GDP (partly extracted) Kyushu’s agricultural production accounts for about 20% of that of entire Japan. (10,000 people) (100 million U.S. dollars) Transitions of Kyushu and national crude steel productions Comparison in population GDP Argentine 543 Production amount of major agricultural products (in descending order) in 2014 （Unit : 100 million yen） （1,000 tons units） Total land area (2016) Nationwide Kyushu Nationwide share Belgium 532 Agricultural products Kyushu Nationwide The national ratio 140,000 15.5 Total population Beef cattle (2016 1.1) Taiwan 530 Pig 120,000 15.0 Regional GDP (nominal) Rice Venezuela 510 (FY2013) Broiler chicken 100,000 14.5 Chicken eggs Total tons of Completed Norway 501 steel vessels (2015) Raw milk 80,000 14.0 Tomatoes Austria 437 Money amount of IC Strawberries production (2016) 60,000 13.5 Iran 425 Mandarin oranges Amount of agricultural Sweet potatoes production (2015) 40,000 13.0 Thailand 405 Cucumbers Crude steel production (2016) Tea (raw leaf) Kyushu 398 Potatoes 20,000 12.5 Automobile production (2016) Spring onions Colombia 378 Onions 0 12.0 Export Value（2016） 0 100 200 300 400 500 600 Total output 2002 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009 2010 2011 2012 2013 2014 2015 2016 (year) Kyushu Taiwan South Korea (Billion U.S. dollars) Source: Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries, "Statistics of Agricultural Income Produced" Source：Data compiled by the Kyushu Bureau Source：Data compiled by the Kyushu Bureau of Economy, Trade and Industry Source: Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communications, "World Data 2016" Source: Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communications, "World Data 2016" of Economy, Trade and Industry Sightseeing spots

TRANSPORT MOJI The Sites of Japan’s Industrial Revolution: Iron and Steel, UNESCO TSUSHIMA KITAKYUSHU Ikinoshima 1h30min and Coal Mining were inscribed as cultural sites in the IZUHARA 35min TOKYO Island h 2h15min 1 OSAKA World Heritage List in July 2015. HAKATA World Heritage FUKUOKA Fukuoka HAKATA OITA KARATSU SHIN-TOSU HAKATA- Component parts in the Kyushu area TOSU YUFUIN Oita World natural heritage site (inscribed in 1993) Ｓａｇａ 2h10min ●: Miike Coal Mine, Miyanohara Pit; remains of the Miike Coal Railway; Miike Port [Omuta City]/ 45min HAKATA- YUFUIN OITA SAGA The Imperial Steel Works, Japan’s first Head Office, repair shop, and former forge shop [Kitakyushu City]/ Onga 40min SAGA HAKATA- HAKATA- OITA River pumping station [Nakama City] KYUSHU-SAGA KUMAMOTO 2h 40min HAKATA- NAGASAKI MIIKE ●: Remains of the Mietsu naval dock [Saga City] 30min 2h10min Kumamoto ASO ●: remains of Kosuge slip dock; Mitsubishi Nagasaki Shipyard No. 3 dry dock; NAGASAKI 50min Nagasaki ASO KUMAMOTO Mitsubishi Nagasaki Shipyard giant cantilever crane; Mitsubishi Nagasaki Shipyard former pattern shop; SHIMABARA 20min NAGASAKI 30min KUMAMOTO Mitsubishi Nagasaki Shipyard Senshokaku Guest House; Takashima Coal Mine; Hashima Coal Mine; former 1h25min Fukuejima FUKUE NAGASAKI MISUMI Glover house and office [Nagasaki City] Island GOTO FUKUE MISUMI 1h AMAKUSA SHIN-YATSUSHIRO ●: Miike Coal Mine, Manda Pit; remains of the Miike Coal Railway [Arao City]/ former ●Fukuoka YATSUSHIRO 45min Misumi West Port [Uki City] HONDO ●Saga 50min ●: Former Shuseikan (remains of the reverberatory furnaces, the former machinery factory, Miyazaki OITA- ●Yakushima Town MIYAZAKI ●Nagasaki 3h10min and the former Kagoshima Foreign Engineer’s Residence); Terayama Charcoal Kiln; Sekiyoshi Sluice Gate of Yakushima, Japan’s first world natural heritage site, is an island of healing, Tsushima HAKATA- Yoshino Leat [Kagoshima City] covered in forests of over-millennium-old Yakusugi (Japanese cedars). Island KAGOSHIMA-CHUO ●Kumamoto 1h30min KUMAMOTO- KAGOSHIMA-CHUO MIYAZAKI ●Oita TSUSHIMA 1h MINAMI-MIYAZAKI World cultural heritage sites: Sites of Japan’s Meiji Industrial Revolution: Iron and Steel, Shipbuilding and Coal Mining MIYAZAKI KAGOSHIMA IZUHARA KAGOSHIMA-CHUO- ●Miyazaki MIYAZAKI FUKUOKA 2h 1h ●Kagoshima HAKATA KAGOSHIMA KAGOSHIMA-CHUO Kagoshima

Amamioshima Island 35min Kyushu ●The Imperial Steel Works, Japan (first Head Office) ●Remains of the Mietsu naval dock ●Hashima Coal Mine (Gunkanjima) Tabi Net Tokunoshima Island QR Code MIYANOURA Island 2h30min Okinoerabujima YAKUSHIMA Island Yakushima YAKUSHIMA MIYANOURA Island

●Former Glover house and office ●Manda Pit ●Former Shuseikan (remains of the reverberatory furnaces) Theme Parks History & Culture

SPACE WORLD ●Kitakyushu City Kitakyushu Manga Museum ●Kitakyushu City Hizen Yume Kaido ●Ureshino City Huis Ten Bosch ●Sasebo City Former house of Den’emon Ito ●Iizuka City Yoshinogari ruins ●Kanzaki City • Yoshinogari Town Yutoku Inari-jinja Shrine ●Kashima City Oura Church ●Nagasaki City This theme park offers you a realistic experience of Under the slogan, “Watch, read, and draw,” this museum is sharing the This theme park, focusing on history, is a lifelike reproduction This is a residential resort, reproducing European Den’emon Ito, the coal-mine magnate of the Chikuho These are the ruins of one of the largest This shrine, one of the three great Inari-jinja shrines in Built in the Nagasaki founded in the wake of the opening up of the country to the West, space travel. It features many space-focused attractions, charms of manga with the general public. It exhibits works by manga of streets of Edo-period Ureshino, a prosperous post station on streets and offering an experience of European area, lived in this residence with the famous poet Yayoi-period moated settlements found in Japan. Japan, is famous as a “power spot,” attracting more artists related to Kitakyushu City, including Mr. Leiji Matsumoto, the this is the oldest existing church in Japan. Although it including the Space Museum, which displays a real rock the Nagasaki-kaido Highway between Kokura and Nagasaki. culture. You can enjoy the beauty of seasonal Byakuren Yanagihara, his second wife. This is a Reproduced ancient houses seasonal flowers, and than 2.8 million visitors annually. Omikuji (fortune slips) Honorary Director of this museum. In the reading zone, you can freely You can experience the atmosphere of the here. was severely damaged by the atomic , In 1953, it sample brought back from the moon. read any from its collection of about 50,000 manga books. flowers, as well as a wide variety of events here. magnificent house built with luxury in every detail. various events, attract a wide range of visitors. in five languages are among the latest hits with tourists. was again designated as a national treasure.

Aso Cuddly Dominion ●Aso City Harmonyland ●Hiji Town Phoenix Seagaia Resort ●Miyazaki City Flower Park Kagoshima ●Ibusuki City Kumamoto Castle ●Kumamoto City Usa-jingu Shrine ●Usa City Udo-jingu Shrine ●Nichinan City Sengan-en ●Kagoshima City You can meet over 550 rare and cute animals and birds Many Sanrio characters, popular with This is a resort complex covering a vast area This is among the largest theme parks in Kumamoto Castle is known as one of the three This is the head shrine of over 40,000 Hachimangu Udo-jingu Shrine is very unique in that its This is a former villa of the Shimadzu family, of 100 kinds in an extensive park site, featuring the rich children, await you here. In this theme park, extending some 10 km north and south, Japan. Some 400,000 subtropical plants of great castles in Japan. This castle is renowned Shrines nationwide. Its main hall in a style called main hall stands in a cave on the top of a who once ruled Kagoshima. It offers visitors a nature of Aso. This animal theme park, focusing on you can become immersed in a fairy-tale containing hotels, convention halls, and 2,400 kinds are planted and displayed in an for its beauty and towering stone walls called “hachiman-zukuri” is designated as a national high cliff washed by the waves of the Pacific spectacular view of its garden against the “entertainment” and “contact,” is rare in the world. world all day long. spas, as well as a golf course. extensive park site. “musha-gaeshi” (warrior repellers). treasure. Ocean. background of and Kinko Bay.

Events & Festivals Hot Springs

Nagasaki Lantern Festival ●Nagasaki City Hakata Gion Yamakasa ●Fukuoka City [July] Himeshima dance ● Himeshima Village [August] Yamaga Lantern Festival ●Yamaga City [August] Harazuru Hot Spring ●Asakura City Ureshino Hot Spring ●Ureshino City Unzen Hot Spring ●Unzen City Kurokawa Hot Spring ●Minamioguni Town [January to February (lunar New Year)] This soul-stirring festival is an icon of Hakata. Decorated floats This dance is thought to have developed from This is the representative summer festival of Kumamoto, Harazuru Hot Spring, located along the , is This is a representative hot spring area in Saga Prefecture, Unzen Hot Spring, boasting rich nature, was This hot spring town offers visitors the joy of trying many This is a festival modeled after the Chinese lunar New called ‘kazari-yama” are displayed in various places in the city the largest hot spring area in Fukuoka Prefecture. This 「見る」「読む」「描く」をテーマに漫画の魅力 nenbutsu-prayer dances in the Kamakura starting with a lantern display on August 15. The を発信するミュージアム。名誉館長・松本零known as one of the three beneficial hot springs for a beautiful designated as Japan’s first national park in 1934, bathhouses and strolling, as well as experiencing the atmosphere of Year, celebrated mainly in Nagasaki Shinchi during the festival period in July. In oi-yama, groups of men hot spring has characteristics of both a weal alkaline skin. With a number of traditional major Japanese inns, this hot and is also famous as a summer resort. Streets lined an old place for hot-spring therapy. Most inns have open-air baths, for about two weeks. Streets in the city are brilliantly period. The Himeshima Bon Festival dance is thousand-lantern dance fascinates the audience with the spring and a sulfur spring, so it is popular as “a hot 士氏をはじめ、北九州市ゆかりの漫画家の wearing uniform happi coats and loincloths rush through the spring area makes visitors feel elegance and history. with Japanese inns are next to Unzen “Jigoku”. where you can enjoy a hot-spring shower, a rock-bound bath, etc. decorated with about 15,000 Chinese lanterns. streets of Hakata, carrying one-ton kaki-yama floats. held on August 14 and 15 every year. fantastic beauty of flickering lantern lights. spring with double beneficial effects for a beautiful skin” 作品を展示。閲覧コーナーでは、約５万冊の

Ohara Festival ●Kagoshima City [November] Saga International Balloon Fiesta ●Saga City [November] Karatsu Kunchi ●Karatsu City [November] Takachiho Night Kagura ●Takachiho Town [November to February] Yufuin Hot Spring ●Yufu City Beppu Hatto ●Beppu City Shosenkyu Hot Spring ●Miyazaki City Ibusuki natural sand-steam spring ●Ibusuki City This festival, held on November 2 and 3 This is an international hot-air balloon competition In this exciting festival, held over three days This festival, held from late November to Yufuin Hot Spring is among the most popular spa resorts in In Beppu, the city of hot springs boasting the world’s largest Shosenkyu Hot Spring is named from “a palace This is one of the few natural sand-steam every year, features a long procession of held in Saga City in early November every year. between November 2 and 4 every year, early February in the Takachiho area, Kyushu. You can select from a wide variety of accommodation number of hot spring sources and Japan’s largest amount of with a hot spring flowing out from a pine tree springs in the world. You can bathe in the people dancing to music, including the local More than 100 hot-air balloons add color to the people carrying decorated floats run through features kagura dance performed night and facilities, from tourist homes filled with the rustic atmosphere water flow from hot springs, there are eight hot spring areas, forest.” This hot spring boasts an abundant beach sands heated with terrestrial heat from folk tune Ohara-bushi. sky of Saga in late autumn. the streets, shouting “En’ya en’ya.” day to pray for good harvests. of a hot spring area to elaborate first-class Japanese inns. collectively called Beppu Hatto, with distinctive characteristics. flow of 380 tons of spring water a day. an active volcano.

Nature & Scenery Foods

Fukuoka Tower ●Fukuoka City Yanagawa Kawakudari (canal cruise) ●Yanagawa City Kunen’an ●Kanzaki City Night view from Mt. Inasa ●Nagasaki City noodles ●Fukuoka Prefecture Yobuko cuttlefish ●Karatsu City Saga Beef ●Saga Prefecture Shippoku cuisine ●Nagasaki City Nagasaki ●Nagasaki City Fukuoka Tower, a 234-meter-tall symbol of Fukuoka City, On a boat called “donko-bune” slowly cruising the It is said that Kunen’an took nine years to Mt. Inasa is famous as one of the world’s Tonkotsu ramen, with turbid pork bone soup and In this area, you can enjoy cuttlefish This brand beef features “tsuyasashi,” Shippoku cuisine, based on a serving style of This is a representative Nagasaki-style Chinese is the highest seaside tower in Japan. Near the tower, there canals, you can enjoy the beautiful scenery and historic be built by order of Yataro Itami, a three new greatest night views. Brilliant thin noodles as its distinctive characteristics, is fresh from the sea in various ways, soft lean meat beautifully and finely Chinese cuisine, has developed into a unique dish. A unique kind of noodles, different from combination of Japanese, Chinese and Dutch ramen noodles, are topped with a mixture of over is Fukuoka Yahuoku! Dome, where more than 70 regular buildings along the canal banks. Kotatsu boats are also businessman in Saga. Kunen’an is opened colorful lights viewed from the top of the thought to have originated in . Its thick including and tempura. marbled with fat with an excellent cuisine in Nagasaki, where people from various 10 kinds of ingredients. It is filling and affordable, games are held during the professional baseball season. popular as a charming special feature of winter. to the general public in spring and autumn. mountain seem like scattered jewels. soup features rich and delicious flavors. flavor. places in diverse countries come together. as well as highly nutritious.

Mt. Aso ●Aso City Beppu Jigoku tour ●Beppu City Takachiho Gorge ●Takachiho Town Mangrove forests ●Amami City Basashi (Horsemeat sashimi) Sushi of Saiki ●Saiki City Charcoal-grilled locally produced chicken Ripe mango ● Kagoshima Kurobuta pork ●Kagoshima Prefecture ●Kumamoto Prefecture Mt. Aso has the largest caldera in the world. This tour visits eight clusters of hot spring geysers called This gorge, formed with erosion by block lava from Mt. Aso, is Mangroves grow in profusion on delta land As seen in the traditional phrase ●Miyazaki Prefecture Miyazaki-grown mangoes are unique in that This is top-class brand pork raised The outer rim of the caldera surrounding “jigoku” (literally “hell”) These jigoku have violently blown 100 m deep at the deepest point. The view of the Manai Falls, formed between two rivers joining there. Sashimi of brilliant-colored horsemeat “The lord of Saiki depends on the Miyazaki-produced chicken, grown in a nearly they are harvested when fully ripened. Sweet in the rich nature of Kagoshima. It also called “sakura (cherry blossom) natural environment, is low-fat and low-calorie, Nakadake still emitting smoke forms a up hot water and mud, as well as fumarolic gases, from selected as one of the 100 waterfalls of Japan, running down You can experience an expedition through meat” features a creamy texture and seaside,” the city is proud of fresh featuring high-quality meat and a firm texture, and creamy mango with a sugar content of is rich in flavor and sweetness, and magnificent natural panorama. 250 to 300 m under the ground for more than 1,000 years. to the bottom of the deep gorge is too splendid for words. the subtropical forests in a canoe. an excellent flavor. fish caught in the Bungo Channel. as well as a deep flavor. over 18% is surely the king of fruits. features soft meat.

Traditional Handy Crafts

Mikawachi ware Hasami ware

Hakata dolls ●Fukuoka City Hakata-ori textile ●Fukuoka City Okawa kumiko (fretwork) ●Okawa City & Imari ware Mikawachi ware & Hasami ware Higo inlaid work ●Kumamoto City Yamaga golden lanterns ●Yamaga City Beppu bamboo work ●Beppu City Miyakonojo Daikyu-bows●Miyakonojo City Satsuma Kiriko (cut-glass) Oshima Tsumugi silk pongee ●Arita City & Imari City ●Sasebo City & Hasami Town ●Kagoshima City ●Amami City & Kagoshima City Hakata dolls are unique in their quiet beauty With a history of more than 760 years, Kumiko is a traditional joinery technique in While Mikawachi ware features delicate and This is craftwork produced by These paper lanterns are representative A wide variety of products, from Miyakonojo Daikyu-bows, created coming from the technique of coloring unglazed Hakata-ori textile features thickness and assembling wood pieces without using nails. These have continued to inlaying gold and silver in the body traditional craftwork in Yamaga. daily necessaries to artistic crafts, in a series of over 200 handwork This is glass craftwork reborn This is silk textile featuring the fascinate their many admirers with their elegant ceramics with a luxurious feel, through restoring the production clay dolls, as well as fine carving. A wide variety firmness. Not only obis (sashes) but Okawa kumiko is used for the interior decorations Hasami ware is easy-to-use well-designed of iron to create various patterns. Golden lanterns on the heads of are produced by making good use processes, including smoking and unique technique of mud dying and beautiful white surface and brilliant everyday vessels. These porcelains have method for old products called the kasuri (splashed) patterns. It of dolls, including those depicting beautiful various other products of Hakata-ori of the Cruise Train Seven Stars in Kyushu, and painting, which have been developed It features massiveness and the Thousand-lantern dancers are iconic of the beauty of bamboo. carving, are used in Japanese “masterpieces in the end of the Edo women and children, are being created. textile have been recently produced. adds further luxury to the deluxe train. distinctively different features although they beauty of the iron body. works. archery competitions. has achieved special international into perfection over 400 years. are produced in areas next to each other. period” and “illusory jewels”. recognition. Photos provided by the Saga City Board of Education, Saga Prefecture Tourism Association, and Kagoshima Prefecture Tourism Association, and reprinted from“Kyushu Tourist Information” Photo Gallery. Kyushu Economy International (KEI) Kyushu Economy International (http://www.kyushu-kei.org) ○Kyushu Economy International (KEI) was established as the primary organization for international economic exchanges in Kyushu in July 2001, as a cooperative venture between local governments, economic bodies, private companies, etc. in Kyushu. ○It aims to impart comprehensive information about Kyushu’s favorable environment as a business location, its resources for tourism, etc. to foreign countries and regions, and to facilitate the creation of new industries and balanced regional development through the establishment of local subsidiaries by the invitation of overseas and domestic companies to Kyushu and industrial exchanges, in order to revitalize Kyushu and stimulate its autonomous development, through international exchanges in business, tourism, and human resources. Organization Outline of operation Constitution: including prefectures, ordinance-designated cities, 1．Planning of internationalization strategies, etc. economic bodies, private companies, etc. Discussing surveys and plans deemed useful and effective when conduct- ed around Kyushu 【General assembly members】 2．Creation and sharing of information «Imparting information about Kyushu» ■Chairman: Chairman, Kyushu Economic Federation Imparting information about the investment environment and econo- ■Vice-Chairman: Chaiman, Kyushu Federation of Chambers my-related programs in Kyushu through the website and PR sources of Commerce and Industry 3．Planning of internationalization strategies, etc. ■Members: Prefectural governors; ordinance-designated city ①Programs for economic and business exchanges with Asia (targeting the Pan-Yel- mayors; heads of economic bodies and private companies low Sea Economic Zone, China, South Korea, and ASEAN); ②Programs for sharing 【Secretary assembly members】 the latest information about overseas operation locations and market trends, the ways ■Secretary-general: Senior Managing Director, Kyushu Eco- of using support programs, and overseas business and the global economy, through holding seminars, etc.; ③Programs for supporting overseas operations, including nomic Federation participating in business exhibitions abroad, and holding business talk sessions with ■Members: Department managers and bureau directors in buyers specializing in foreign markets, in order to support local companies’ expan- charge from prefectures and ordinance-designated cities; sion of their markets into Asia and establishing overseas operations directors of economic bodies, etc. 4．Stimulating the establishment of business «Support for the invitation of □Support organizations: JETRO; Development Bank of Japan, etc. overseas enterprises» □Adviser: Director, Kyushu Bureau of Economy, Trade and Industry Holding business invitation seminars and workshops targeting deci- (METI Kyushu); Director, Kyushu District Transport Bureau; sion-makers, in order to promote the invitation of overseas enterprises □Auditors: Planning & Coordination Department Managers of the effective for the revitalization of the regional economy Organization for Small & Medium Enterprises and Regional 5．Human exchange «Relationship building with international students» Russia Innovation, Japan, etc. Holding networking events and job-hunting interview sessions, in order to General Affairs Department Manager, Kyushu Electric Power promote mutual understanding continued relationships with international □Secretariat: Kyushu Economic Federation students, who will be the bridge between Kyushu-based companies operat- Kyushu Bureau of Economy, Trade and Industry (METI Kyushu) ing abroad and foreign countries

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Beijing Kyushu Tourism Promotion Organization ● Japan Kyushu Tourism Promotion Organization (http://www.welcomekyushu.jp) Tokyo Korea ● ○Kyushu Tourism Promotion Organization was established as a comprehensive public organization for the promotion of Kyushu tourism in 2005, by the seven prefectures in Kyushu and the local business world. China Kyushu ○We are imparting information about the rich tourism resources in Kyushu to international visitors to Kyushu, as well as organiz- Shanghai ● 500km ing PR campaigns for Kyushu brands at tourism exhibitions and business talk sessions, improving tourism resources, and main- Kyushu taining the system for welcoming international visitors. Nepal Bhutan 1,000km Strategies for Kyushu tourism Okinawa Organization Bangladesh Hong Kong Taiwan ● 2,000km Fukuoka Strategy I: Strategy for Kyushu branding Myanmar Laos Saga General assembly (members) ①Creating a clear tourist image of Kyushu Oita ②Disseminating the image through various channels according to Thailand target country Nagasaki Board of Viet Nam Philippines 3,000km Directors Auditors Strategy II: Strategy for improving tourism infrastructure directors Cambodia ①Activities toward the improvement of physical and human Kumamoto Miyazaki ［Executives］ Chair; Vice Chair; Senior managing director infrastruc ture ②Deregulation and system revision Brunei ③Development of tourism human resources Malaysia Management committee ④Enhancement of tourism resources and hospitality in tourist Singapore des tinations in Kyushu Kagoshima Strategy III: Strategy for attracting tourists to Kyushu Executive director ①Attraction of inbound international tourists (by country, city, and market) Deputy executive director ②Attraction of domestic tourists (by market and theme) ③Common strategy (clarification of target markets; PR strategy; use Indonesia New ● of media, etc.) Delhi Strategy IV: Strategy for stimulating long-stay tourism and consumption Kyushu Kyushu in Asia Overseas Domestic Planning Tourism ①Development of wide-area tourist routes India division division division Media ②From passing-by tourism to residential tourism (development of Kyushu consists of Kyushu island and nearby Center night attractions, etc.) smaller islands. It is located at the center of East ③From one-night stay to multiple stays (invitation of residential-type Asia, and geographically near to South Korea and events) China. Moreover, Located in the southwestern part of Contact：Kyushu Tourism Promotion Organization Email：[email protected] Japan, it boasts a warm and mild climate with little 2-1-82 Watanabe-dori, Chuo-ku, Fukuoka City 810-0004 Tel.: +81-92-751-2947 snow in the winter, an ideal environment for 6,000km business. 2017.4