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May 6, 2011 Local News
More Than 20% of Primary Kyushu Companies Expected to Boost Hiring
A Nishinippon Shimbun survey of 114 leading Kyushu companies reveals that 40% will not revise their hiring plans for the spring of 2012 due to the Tohoku earthquake, and 23.7% plan...
May 6, 2011 Local News
Nishi-Nippon Bank to Offer New Dollar-Denominated Financing
Fukuoka City-based Nishi-Nippon Bank announced they will work with the Japan Bank for International Cooperation to offer long-term dollar-denominated financing to its customers wit...
May 6, 2011 Local News
Avispa Fukuoka Turns First Profit in Three Years
Avispa Fukuoka of the J League’s Division 1 announced at a general stockholders’ meeting that they had earned 33 million yen in net profit for FY 2010, their first profit in three ...
May 6, 2011 Local News
Kitakyushu Company Mulls Import of Old Electrical Products for Resource Farming
Kitakyushu-based recycling company Nippon Magnetic Dressing revealed that it will conduct a study with the cooperation of the city government of the possibility of importing discar...
May 6, 2011 Local News
Kitakyushu J2 Team Ends Record Loss Skein
J2 soccer league team Giravanz Kitakyushu defeated the team from Ehime by a 3-0 score to end their J League record string of consecutive losses at 35. The team had not won since Ma...
May 6, 2011 Local News
Daihatsu Kyushu Reports First Revenue Decline
Daihatsu Kyushu released its non-consolidated revenue and earnings report for the year ended March 31, 2001, which showed a 1.5% year-on-year decline in vehicle sales to 336,739, a...
May 6, 2011 Local News
Hakata Hankyu Cuts into Competitors’ Business
The Japan Department Stores Association released figures for the sales of Fukuoka City department stores for March omitting those of the new Hakata Hankyu at the JR Hakata Station ...
May 6, 2011 Local News
First JR Kyushu Revenue Rise in Three Years
JR Kyushu released its consolidated revenue and earnings report for FY 2010, which shows that revenue rose 1.5% from the previous year to 297.15 billion yen. It is the company’s fi...
May 6, 2011 Local News
Hakata Hankyu Cuts into Competitors’ Business
The Japan Department Stores Association released figures for the sales of Fukuoka City department stores for March omitting those of the new Hakata Hankyu at the JR Hakata Station ...
May 6, 2011 Local News
First JR Kyushu Revenue Rise in Three Years
JR Kyushu released its consolidated revenue and earnings report for FY 2010, which shows that revenue rose 1.5% from the previous year to 297.15 billion yen. It is the company’s fi...