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Jan 6, 2011 Local News
Sony in Negotiations to Buy Back Plant
Sony is in negotiations to buy back a semiconductor plant in Isahaya, Nagasaki Prefecture, from Toshiba, it was learned. Sony originally used the plant to produce high performance ...
Jan 6, 2011 Local News
Three Tenjin Department Stores Cut Deals with Nishitetsu
Three department stores in Fukuoka City’s Tenjin district have reached agreement with the Nishi-Nippon Railroad (Nishitetsu) for different cooperative arrangements. Iwataya-Mitsuko...
Jan 6, 2011 Local News
Signs of Recovery in Personal Consumption Seen in First Department Store Sales
Statistics have been released for the traditional Japanese department store sales in Kyushu during the New Year holidays. They indicate that sales were flat from the previous year ...
Jan 6, 2011 Local News
JR Kyushu to Operate Luxury Train Tours in 2013
JR Kyushu has decided to operate tours of Kyushu using new luxury trains with spacious suites for sleeping starting in the spring of 2013. The trains will run twice a week and trav...
Jan 6, 2011 Local News
Details of Facilities in Burakumin Districts in Nokata Removed from City Website
The city of Nokata in Fukuoka Prefecture had listed on its website the local regulations for community centers and other public facilities in districts where many burakumin live. T...
Jan 6, 2011 Local News
Regional Ratio of Jobs to Job-Seekers at 0.52
The seasonally adjusted ratio of available jobs to job-seekers in the seven Kyushu prefectures in November was 0.52, according to Ministry of Health, Labor, and Welfare statistics....
Jan 6, 2011 Local News
Honda to Conduct Electric Vehicle Trials in Kumamoto
Honda announced it will begin trials of new model electric motorbikes, electric cars, and plug-in hybrids next year at its Kumamoto Prefecture plant. The recharging station for the...
Jan 6, 2011 Local News
Transfer of Broadcast License to Tenjin FM Approved
The Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communications announced it has approved the transfer of the broadcast license held by Kyushu International FM (Love FM) to Tenjin FM, a subsid...
Jan 6, 2011 Local News
Fukuoka Business Leaders Expect to Hire More Graduates
The Fukuoka Employers’ Association of Fukuoka Prefecture conducted a questionnaire survey among its membership that shows 20.4% of the business leaders expect to hire more new coll...
Dec 24, 2010 Local News
Big Trifecta Payoff at Saga Race Track
For the eighth race at the Saga Race Track in Tosu on the 19th, there was a record payoff of 4.051 million yen for those who picked the trifecta winners, i.e., the horses who finis...