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Apr 5, 2012 Local News
Saibu Gas Gets into Bottled Water Business
Saibu Gas announced the launch of a business to manufacture and sell drinking water. A new wholly-owned company they formally established on April 2 outsources the production of bo...
Apr 5, 2012 Local News
Everlife to Establish Taiwan Presence
Health food product mail order company Everlife of Fukuoka City announced plans to begin mail order sales this fall in Taiwan through a new local subsidiary in Taipei. Products wil...
Apr 5, 2012 Local News
Kyushu Electric to Cut 129 Billion Yen in Expenses
Kyushu Electric Power released its operating guidelines for FY 2012, which include a policy to immediately cut 120 billion yen from its budget for capital investment, repair, and ...
Mar 31, 2012 Local News
Fly Like a Star for ¥10,000 to Tokyo!
StarFlyer is offering discount flights from Fukuoka to Haneda for just ¥10,000 on Wednesdays between the 4/4 ~ 6/27 with five rounds trip per day. Tickets sold up until the previou...
Mar 29, 2012 Local News
Kyushu Companies Cutting Back on Hiring
A survey of the hiring plans for the spring 2013 by major regional companies by the Nishinippon Shimbun found that 24 of the 114 surveyed, or 21.1% of the total, said they would ei...
Mar 29, 2012 Local News
Softbank Group Buys Yahoo! Dome
The Softbank Group has purchased the Yahoo! Dome in Fukuoka City from GIC Real Estate of Singapore for 87 billion yen, it was learned. The stadium is the home park of the Fukuoka S...
Mar 29, 2012 Local News
Real Estate Bubble Growing in Hakata Station Area?
The Ministry of Land, Infrastructure, and Transport released its land price values for major metropolitan areas on the 22nd. This showed that the value of four properties near the...
Mar 29, 2012 Local News
Shinkansen Benefit to Kumamoto: 19.5 Billion Yen
The Distribution Economics Institute of Kumamoto Area (TRANSLATOR’S NOTE: This is how the name is written on their website), a Kumamoto City think tank, estimates that the benefit ...
