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Dec 11, 2008 Local News
Full-Scale Construction on Western Kyushu Shinkansen Route Likely to Start Next Year
The project team of the ruling Liberal Democratic Party for promoting Shinkansen construction has decided that construction should begin in 2009 on the sections of the western Kyus...
Dec 11, 2008 Local News
Regional Bankruptcies Already Exceed Last Year’s Totals
The Fukuoka branch of Tokyo Shokoh Research revealed that its survey of corporate bankruptcies with liabilities of 10 million yen or more in Kyushu and Okinawa Prefecture by the en...
Dec 11, 2008 Local News
Canon Oita to Lay Off More Than 1,100 Workers
Canon subsidiaries Oita Canon and Canon Materials, also of the same prefecture, have been informed that their parent’s plan for production cutbacks will result in a layoff of a com...
Dec 11, 2008 Local News
Kikuike Sells Out 100 Million Yen Worth of Merchandise Coupons
The city of Kikuike, Kumamoto Prefecture, offered for sale 20,000 sets of coupons for regional merchandise worth an aggregate 100 million yen on December 1. They had planned for sa...
Dec 11, 2008 Local News
Best Denki to Open Kuwait Branch
Fukuoka City-based consumer electronics mass merchandiser Best Denki announced it will establish a presence in the Middle East by opening its first store in Kuwait next May. The st...
Dec 11, 2008 Local News
Toshiba Kitakyushu to Cut 200 Seconded Employees
Toshiba will terminate the contracts of roughly 200 seconded employees at its Kitakyushu plant by the end of the year, it was learned. The plant primarily produces semiconductors f...
Dec 11, 2008 Local News
Extensive Layoffs in Kyushu Semiconductor Industry
The sales slumps in the auto and consumer electronics industry caused by the economic downturn has led to layoffs by the major semiconductor companies with plants in Kyushu. These ...
Dec 11, 2008 Local News
Nishitetsu Mulling Hotel Construction in the Ginza
Fukuoka City-based Nishi-Nippon Railway (Nishitetsu) revealed it has purchased land in the Ginza district of Tokyo with the intent of building a hotel on the site. The company said...
Dec 11, 2008 Local News
Extensive Layoffs in Kyushu Semiconductor Industry
The sales slumps in the auto and consumer electronics industry caused by the economic downturn has led to layoffs by the major semiconductor companies with plants in Kyushu. These ...
Dec 11, 2008 Local News
Nishitetsu Mulling Hotel Construction in the Ginza
Fukuoka City-based Nishi-Nippon Railway (Nishitetsu) revealed it has purchased land in the Ginza district of Tokyo with the intent of building a hotel on the site. The company said...
