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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 ...
Mar 29, 2012 Local News
JR Kyushu Expects Highest Revenue on Record
JR Kyushu revealed that it anticipates revenue for FY 2011 to total 192.8 billion yen, exceeding their projections as the beginning of the year and a record high for the company. T...
Mar 23, 2012 Local News
Nangoku Corporation to Build Megasolar Plant
Kagoshima Prefecture trading company Nangoku Corporation, whose mainstay business is gasoline sales, announced plans to build a megasolar power plant in the prefecture as early as ...
Mar 23, 2012 Local News
JR Kyushu Appoints First Female Division Head
JR Kyushu named Yumi Akagi (43) to be the head of its operations and planning division. Akagi thus becomes the first female division head in the company’s history. She was hired by...
Mar 23, 2012 Local News
Four Shinkin Banks Back Medical Corporation
Four shinkin banks in Fukuoka Prefecture, working through business ties formalized as the Global Shinkin Group, have joined with the Shinkin Central Bank in Tokyo to provide 3.1 bi...
