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Oct 30, 2008 Local News
JR Kyushu Posts Profit Declines Despite Record Revenue
On its consolidated interim report for the current fiscal year, JR Kyushu revealed it had recorded record high revenue for the third straight year, but that both current profit and...
Oct 30, 2008 Local News
Kyushu Manufacturing Industry at Risk from Economic Crisis
The appreciation of the yen combined with falling stock prices will likely have a severe impact on the semiconductor and auto industries, the backbone industries of Kyushu. Most of...
Oct 30, 2008 Local News
Defective Materials Used for Kyushu Shinkansen
It was discovered that defective materials were used for panels on bridges built for the Kagoshima-Yatsuhiro route of the Kyushu Shinkansen that began operation in 2004. The panels...
Oct 30, 2008 Local News
Hawks’ Fall Camp Opens under New Manager
The Fukuoka Softbank Hawks began their fall training camp in Miyazaki City on the 27th under new manager Koji Akiyama. The theme for this year’s camp is “growth”. The 30 participat...
Oct 30, 2008 Local News
Kyushu Electric Rate Increase to be Roughly 240 Yen
Fukuoka City-based Kyushu Electric Power released the rates it planned to charge a standard household (300 kW hours used per month) for the January-March quarter. The monthly rate ...
Oct 30, 2008 Local News
City in Kumamoto to Offer Area Merchandise Coupons
The city of Kikuchi, Kumamoto, will issue merchandise coupons providing a 10% credit for purchases at registered stores in the city. The objective is to boost local consumption tha...
Oct 24, 2008 Local News
Miyazaki Prefecture Working to Attract Solar Power Companies
At a regularly scheduled press conference on the 21st, Miyazaki Prefecture Governor Hideo Higashikokubaru announced that starting next year, the prefecture will work to attract com...
Oct 24, 2008 Local News
Step Taken Toward Kyushu-Korean Economic Sphere
The mayors, government officials, and business leaders of the sister cities Fukuoka City and Busan, South Korea, launched the Fukuoka – Busan Economic Cooperation Council on the 20...
Oct 24, 2008 Local News
Kyushu Companies Fail to Come Clean on Consumption Tax
The Fukuoka and Kumamoto Regional Taxation Bureaus announced the results of surveys they took of individuals in the seven Kyushu prefectures from July 2007 to June 2008 for income ...
Oct 24, 2008 Local News
Management Buyout Planned for Zenkyoken
Executives of the Fukuoka City-based juku chain Zenkyoken said members of top management are planning buy the company. The company is now listed on the Fukuoka Stock Exchange, and ...
