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Mar 14, 2022 Local News
More Kyushu Companies Allow Employees To have Side Jobs
A report by the Kyushu Productivity Center showed that 18.8% of business organizations in Kyushu allowed their employees to have side jobs in 2021. The increase of 7.8% from the ye...
Mar 14, 2022 Local News
JR Kyushu To Outsource Unmanned-station Operations
JR Kyushu is seeking collaborations with municipal governments to find alternative options for its latest plans for uncrewed stations. Some demand the company abandon plans to elim...
Mar 2, 2022 Local News
AI-based System To Reduce Unpaid Train Fares
On Mar. 1, JR Kyushu began a trial to prevent people from boarding trains without valid tickets using an AI-powered system. Currently, deboarding passengers at uncrewed stations ar...
Feb 25, 2022 Local News
JR Kyushu To Resume Hiring Graduates
JR Kyushu intends to resume its annual recruiting process for the fiscal year of 2023. Last year, the company canceled such a process for the first time after it was incorporated i...
Feb 24, 2022 Local News
Kyuden Introduces Donation System For Green Projects
Kyushu Electric Power Co., Inc. (Kyuden) recently introduced a new rate system that incorporates a ¥300 monthly donation to a green project. The first phase of Kyuden’s ‘Mirai no M...
Feb 22, 2022 Local News
JR Kyushu To Appoint New President
Kyushu Railway Co. (JR Kyushu) will appoint Yoji Furumiya as its new President & CEO as of April 1st, 2022. The 59-year-old native of Fukuoka joined the former Japanese National Ra...
Feb 17, 2022 Local News
Study Shows Hardship of Kyushu-based Zanryu-houjin
A recent survey revealed that over 60% of those born to zanryu-houjin parents (Japanese individuals who remained in China after WWII) in China have lived on welfare in Fukuoka and ...
Feb 15, 2022 Local News
YAMAP Announced Kyushu Ranking of Most Popular Mountains Among Climbers 2021
The Fukuoka-based startup, Yamap, announced the ranking of mountains in Kyushu that attracted the most climbers in 2021. Kuju Renzan (Kuju mountain range 1,791 m) was...
Feb 1, 2022 Local News
Kamome Shinkansen Public Viewing Event Announced
JR Kyushu will invite 2,600 members of the public to visit the railway yard of Kamome shinkansen. Guests can enter the yard to see the inside of the train cars for about an hour on...
Feb 1, 2022 Local News
National Government Supports Establishment of Semiconductor Engineer Training in Kyushu
The national government plans to develop a new educational base in Kyushu to train more semiconductor engineers. An industry-government-academia organization would launch by March ...
