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| | KIPPO NEWS Wednesday, April 09, 2003 |
 | | Business confidence in six prefectures in the Kansai region (Osaka, Kyoto, Hyogo, Shiga, Nara and Wakayama) in the first quarter of 2003 (January 1-March 31) improved for the fourth consecutive quarter, according to the quarterly 'tankan' report released by the Osaka branch of the Bank of Japan. |
 | | Kawasaki's woody biomass electric power generation plant will be set up in Hikami Town, Hyogo Prefecture, in January 2004 and start test operations using wood chips produced in the town. |
 | | Ichinomiya Town in Hyogo Prefecture's Shiso County, which had been conducting biomass power generation experiments, started trial operations of a woody biomass power plant. |
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