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May 24, 2012 Local News
Twelve Regional Banks Post Downturn in Net Business Profit
The 18 regional banks based in the Kyushu/Yamaguchi region released their business results for the year ended March 2012. Twelve of the 18 banks posted downturns in their net busin...
May 24, 2012 Local News
99 Saganet Wins Ministry Award
A system in Saga Prefecture in which ambulance personnel use iPads to determine the nearest hospital that can accept emergency patients, popularly known as 99 Saganet, has won the ...
May 17, 2012 Local News
Kitakyushu Bank Turns Profit in Six Months
The Yamaguchi Financial Group announced the financial results for the Kitakyushu Bank for the year ended March 2012. Though the bank had been in operation only six months, they ach...
May 17, 2012 Local News
Tarumizu Amberjack Exports to Macao Begin
The fishery cooperative in Tarumizu, Kagoshima Prefecture, breeds the largest volume of amberjack in Japan. The cooperative began exports of the amberjack to Macao, China, earlier ...
May 17, 2012 Local News
Regional Large Retail Store Sales Rise First Time in 12 Year
The Kyushu Bureau of Economy, Trade, and Industry revealed that aggregate sales for the 25 department stores and 429 supermarkets in the Kyushu/Okinawa Prefecture region in FY 201...
May 17, 2012 Local News
Regional College Graduates Leaving Area to Find Work
The Kyushu Economic Research Center released the results of its study of the employment situation for university graduates in the Kyushu/Yamaguchi Prefecture area. University gradu...
May 3, 2012 Local News
JR Kyushu Posts Record High Profit
JR Kyushu announced that it earned 20.272 billion yen of current profit in FY 2011, an increase of 2.3 times from the previous year, on revenue of 332.8 billion yen, a 12% increase...
May 3, 2012 Local News
JR Kyushu Agrees to Start Nagasaki Shinkansen Construction
The JR Kyushu board of directors has given its approval for the start of construction on the Nagasaki-Isahaya leg of the western Kyushu Shinkansen, and reported that approval to th...
Apr 26, 2012 Local News
Nagasaki Nori Sales Plummet
Sales of Nagasaki Prefecture-produced nori in FY 2011 fell 40% from the previous year to the lowest level in 15 years, a prefectural government report revealed. The monetary value ...