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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 ...
Feb 12, 2009 Local News
Silicon Island Kyushu Concept Not Progressing
The Nishinippon Shimbun reports that the Silicon Island Kyushu concept is facing serious problems. With the downturn in global demand, producers of electric machinery and semicondu...
Feb 12, 2009 Local News
Human Resource Development Service of Korea Opens Fukuoka Office
The Human Resource Development Service of Korea, a group affiliated with the South Korean government that provides support for the overseas employment of South Koreans, opened an o...
Feb 12, 2009 Local News
Applications for Employment Adjustment Subsidy Skyrocket
A survey by the Nishinippon Shimbun revealed there has been a sharp rise in the number of applications during January for employment adjustment subsidies by companies who have furl...
Feb 12, 2009 Local News
Prices Paid by Kyushu National Museum Termed “Unnatural”
It has been revealed that of the 75 cultural treasures purchased by the Kyushu National Museum during the three-year period ended in FY 2007 that 46, or more than 60%, were bought ...
Feb 12, 2009 Local News
Silicon Island Kyushu Concept Not Progressing
The Nishinippon Shimbun reports that the Silicon Island Kyushu concept is facing serious problems. With the downturn in global demand, producers of electric machinery and semicondu...
Feb 12, 2009 Local News
Human Resource Development Service of Korea Opens Fukuoka Office
The Human Resource Development Service of Korea, a group affiliated with the South Korean government that provides support for the overseas employment of South Koreans, opened an o...
