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May 6, 2011 Local News
Kyushu Electric Could Ask for Cutbacks on Energy Consumption
Kyushu Electric Power President Toshio Manabe said at a news conference that if the authorization to restart two reactors at the Genkai power plant in Saga Prefecture is delayed un...
May 6, 2011 Local News
New Technology Developed for Long-Distance Squid Shipping
The Industrial Technology Center of Nagasaki and the Nagasaki Prefectural Institute of Fisheries have jointly developed new technology for the long-distance shipping of large quant...
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...
Apr 28, 2011 Local News
Kyushu Auto Exports Plunge in March
The Moji Customs Office in Kitakyushu reported that auto exports from Kyushu and Okinawa and Yamaguchi prefectures in March were down 30.5% in financial terms from the previous yea...
Apr 28, 2011 Local News
Huis ten Bosch Continues to Make Money
Huis ten Bosch, the Sasebo, Nagasaki Prefecture resort, projects more than 600 million yen in current profit for the period from October 2010 to March 2011. During the previous six...