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Aug 30, 2012 Local News
Saga Bank to Devote More Attention to Retail Customers
The Bank of Saga has revealed its intention to focus more closely on individual customers with relatively smaller accounts. Starting in September, they will set up eight branches i...
Aug 30, 2012 Local News
Memo for Economic Exchange Signed with Thailand and Indonesia
An organization for the international promotion of the Kyushu economy formed by the Kyushu Economic Federation and Kyushu Bureau of Economy, Trade, and Industry has signed memorand...
Aug 30, 2012 Local News
Busan Forum Postponed
The annual Fukuoka City-Busan Forum of leaders from industry, academia, and government in those two cities was to be held in Busan in the beginning of September this year, but has ...
Aug 30, 2012 Local News
Fukuoka City Subway Making Money
The Fukuoka City Transportation Bureau announced that the subway had recorded its first single-year profit in FY 2011 in seven years, since the Nanakuma Line was opened in 2005. Th...
Aug 30, 2012 Local News
Kyushu’s Hello Work Successful in Placing New Grads
Hello Work, an employment support service affiliated with the government, is successful in placing new college graduates in Kyushu who have otherwise been unable to find a job, the...
Aug 30, 2012 Local News
JR Kyushu to Grow Green Peppers
JR Kyushu announced it will begin the cultivation of green peppers in Shintomi-cho, Miyazaki Prefecture. Work will begin in September 2013 on two hectares of land leased from local...
Aug 30, 2012 Local News
Yaskawa Electric to Boost Convertor Production Capacity 10-Fold
Kitakyushu-based Yaskawa Electric announced plans to boost by 10 times their production capacity for power convertors for solar power generating systems by 2013. In conjunction wit...
Aug 30, 2012 Local News
Nankai Trough M9 Earthquake & Tsunami Casualty Prediction
A report was released yesterday detailing the effects should a M9 earthquake and tsunami occur in the Nankai Trough. 320,000 casualties are predicted nationwide with 59,000 of them...
Aug 29, 2012 Local News
Kyushu Cities with Foreign Residents Use Facebook Most
According to a report in the Nishinippon Shimbun this morning Fukuoka City has the highest number of facebook users in the Kyushu Okinawa & Yamaguchi region with 36,720. However, v...
Aug 29, 2012 Local News
City Bulletin September 2012
Selected news topics by Fukuoka Now from Fukuoka’s Shisei Dayori.