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Sep 20, 2012 Local News
Kyushu Electric Stock Price Falls below 500 Yen
The price of Kyushu Electric Power stock fell below 500 yen last week to 481 yen. Before the Fukushima nuclear accident, it was trading in the range of 1,800-1,900 yen. Sources at ...
Sep 6, 2012 Local News
Can the Fukuoka Stock Exchange Survive?
The Fukuoka Stock Exchange has reached a critical period in its survival, the Nishinippon Shimbun reports. Stock trading is being concentrated in the Tokyo Stock Exchange, and the ...
Sep 6, 2012 Local News
Miyazaki Beef Exports Resume
On Sep. 3, two years after being taken off the market due to an outbreak of foot and mouth disease, exportation of Miyazaki beef resumed. Prior to the outbreak in 2010, the industr...
Sep 3, 2012 Local News
Update: Costco in Kitakyushu to Open in March
Fukuoka Now previously reported on Costco application to open a new store in Yahatanishi-ku, Kitakyushu. The application has been approved and construction will begin this month. T...
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 23, 2012 Local News
Honda to Develop Motorcycles in Kumamoto
Honda Motor Co. will transfer 276 technicians at its motorcycle R&D center in Saitama Prefecture to its only motorcycle plant in the country in Kumamoto Prefecture in October, it w...
Aug 23, 2012 Local News
Kyushu Land Transactions Rise
The Kyushu Economic Research Center in Fukuoka City has compiled a report on land transactions in the seven Kyushu prefectures in the January – March quarter this year. Transaction...
Aug 20, 2012 Local News
Job Fair for Foreign Students a Success
NCB Research & Consulting tied up with a temporary employment agency World Intec Co., Ltd. and held a job fair for foreign students for the first time on Aug. 3. Fourteen comp...
Aug 18, 2012 Local News
Toho Cinema Hisayama To Close
The Toho Cinema in the Torius Shopping Complex in Hisayama, will close its doors on Aug 31. The 14 screen cinema first opened in 1999 as a Virgin Cinema, and since then, over 8 mil...
Aug 18, 2012 Local News
Red Lobster To Open In Huis Ten Bosch, Nagasaki
The American seafood restaurant, Red Lobster, will open in the free area of Huis Ten Bosch, Nagasaki on Oct 26. It is the first Red Lobster for Kyushu. The famous Live Lobster dish...
