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Apr 19, 2012 Local News
Kyushu Auto Production Tops 1.3 Million Units
A Nishinippon Shimbun survey revealed that aggregate automobile production in Kyushu in FY 2011 exceeded 1.3 million units.
Apr 19, 2012 Local News
Fukuoka Coop Nori Sales Down 20%
A Fukuoka Prefecture-based Ariake Sea fisheries cooperative conducted the final sales of the season for the nori cultivated in the prefecture.
Apr 19, 2012 Local News
Hakata Daimaru Revenue Down for Sixth Straight Year
The Hakata Daimaru department store company based in Fukuoka City announced that sales for the year ended February 2012 totaled 60.714 billion yen, an 8.9% year-on-year decline. Th...
Apr 19, 2012 Local News
Multilingual Disaster Preparedness Handbook
Fukuoka Pref. released a multilingual handbook for disaster consultation and disaster recovery. The handbook contains data in 5 languages- English, Chinese, Korean,Tagalog and simp...
Apr 19, 2012 Local News
Delta Air Fukuoka-Honolulu Flights Increase
Delta Airlines will increase flights from Fukuoka to Honolulu in the upcoming summer months. Their June flight schedule will increase from no flights to four flights per week, and ...
Apr 12, 2012 Local News
Kyushu Mergers and Acquisitions Up
Tokyo-based Recof released the results of its survey of corporate mergers and acquisitions in the seven Kyushu prefectures in FY 2011.
Apr 12, 2012 Local News
Ringer Hut to Close Fukuoka Headquarters
Ringer Hut, the restaurant chain that specializes in Nagasaki champon, will close its Fukuoka headquarters by the end of June. The objective is to centralize the main office functi...
Apr 12, 2012 Local News
Kitakyushu Working to Attract Companies to Unused Factory Tracts
The city of Kitakyushu has adopted a policy that designates currently idled land with factories in the city as “public industrial parks within a company”, and will try to attract c...
Apr 12, 2012 Local News
JR Kyushu Takes Steps for Exchange Listing
JR Kyushu released its mid-term business plan that calls for the company to be listed on the stock exchange by FY 2016. If they are listed, they would be the first of the three JR ...
Apr 12, 2012 Local News
Only Fukuoka Fails to Introduce New Statistical Methods for Tourism Policies in Kyushu
The Japan Tourism Agency instituted standards for the statistical measurement of tourism by each prefecture in 2009. The standards for measuring the number of tourists, as well as...