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Feb 26, 2009 Local News
Sales to Major Kyushu Electric Customers Down 15.4%
Kyushu Electric Power released results of its electric power sales for the month of January, showing that demand from large industrial customers plummeted, resulting in a 15.4% yea...
Feb 26, 2009 Local News
Kitakyushu’s Sumix Hall to Close
Sumix Hall Esta, a theater for drama and concerts in Kitakyushu’s Kokurakita Ward, will close at the end of March. The theater’s owners, Sumitomo Metals of Tokyo, cites the severe ...
Feb 26, 2009 Local News
Shigemitsu Industry to be Listed on Singapore Exchange
Japan Foods Holdings, the Singapore franchiser for Kumamoto City-based Shigemitsu Industry, which operates the Ajisen ramen chain, was listed on the Singapore Stock Exchange, it wa...
Feb 26, 2009 Local News
Huis ten Bosch to Close Hotel
The Huis ten Bosch resort in Sasebo, Nagasaki Prefecture, announced it would close one hotel this summer to improve its financial picture, and that it would cancel the contracts fo...
Feb 12, 2009 Local News
Kitakyushu and Yamaguchi Financial Group to Form Links
The city of Kitakyushu, the Yamaguchi Financial Group, and the affiliated Yamaguchi Bank announced they will sign an agreement on the 20th to promote local industry. One sector in ...
Feb 12, 2009 Local News
Toyota Kyushu Shifts Surplus Employees to Volunteer Activities
Toyota Kyushu is faced with excess personnel due to production cutbacks caused by the economic downturn. Rather than lay the employees off, the company has decided to continue payi...
Feb 12, 2009 Local News
20.5% of Kyushu Residents Now BYO Shopping Bags
The results of the Kyushu-wide campaign to reduce the amount of refuse by encouraging customers at supermarkets and convenience stores to bring their own bags were announced. They ...
Feb 12, 2009 Local News
Fukuoka City Working to Attract Chinese Cruise Ships
Fukuoka City plans to conduct a PR campaign for the Port of Hakata with North American and Asian passenger ship companies to boost the number of port calls by cruise ships starting...
Feb 12, 2009 Local News
Iwata-ya to Post First Loss in 10 Years
Fukuoka City-based department store Iwata-ya has revised downward its consolidated results forecast for the fiscal year ending in March 2009. The new projection shows a loss for th...
Feb 12, 2009 Local News
Izutsu-ya to Increase Regularly-Scheduled Off Days
The Izutsu-ya department stores of Kitakyushu announced that starting in March, they will add five or six regularly scheduled off days to their operating schedule. The stores have ...
