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Aug 7, 2008 Local News
JR Soliciting Designs for Hakata Station Tile Art
JR Kyushu is soliciting designs for the ceramic tile art that will decorate the interior walls of the new Hakata Station building to open in 2011. Participants will be able to subm...
Aug 7, 2008 Local News
Record Exports for Port of Hakata in First Half
The Fukuoka branch of Moji Customs announced that a record high amount of exports was shipped from the Port of Hakata in the first half of 2008. Exports rose 2.7% from the year-bef...
Aug 7, 2008 Local News
Toyota Kyushu to Cancel Contracts with 800 Seconded Employees
Toyota Motors Kyushu announced that it planned to cancel the contracts of 800 seconded employees, nearly 10% of its workforce, due to scheduled production cutbacks. The production ...
Aug 7, 2008 Local News
Saibu Gas Posts First Loss in 30 Years
Fukuoka City-based Saibu Gas revealed that it expects to suffer a non-consolidated loss for the year ending March 2009 due to skyrocketing liquid natural gas prices. This will be t...
Aug 7, 2008 Local News
Kagoshima Bank to Launch Agricultural Fund
The Kagoshima Bank of Kagoshima City will join with six local companies to launch the Agricluster Fund for companies in the agricultural sector in southern Kyushu this month. It wi...
Aug 7, 2008 Local News
Fuel Prices Put Kyushu Ferries in a Bind
The Kyushu Long-Distance Ferry Association reported the results of its survey of six companies with eight routes starting and ending in Kyushu for the ratio of fuel costs to operat...
Aug 7, 2008 Local News
Kyushu Capital Investment Down 1.7%
The Kyushu branch of the Development Bank of Japan revealed the results of its survey of trends for capital investment in the seven Kyushu prefectures in 2008. It found that compan...
Aug 7, 2008 Local News
FFG Creates Consulting Firm for Corporate Clients
Fukuoka Financial Group member Fukuoka Bank announced the formation of the FFG Business Consulting Co., which will specialize in providing consulting services to the corporate cust...
Aug 7, 2008 Local News
Saga Think Tank to Disband
The only think tank in Saga Prefecture, the Saga Economic Survey Association, announced it will disband next month. The association said that the number of requests for surveys has...
Jul 31, 2008 Local News
Fukuoka Children’s Hospital to Move to Artificial Island
Fukuoka City has decided to split the Infectious Diseases Department from the Fukuoka Children’s Hospital and Medical Center for Infectious Diseases and create a medical facility s...
