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Sep 9, 2010 Local News
JCB Call Center to Open in Fukuoka City
Major credit card company JCB announced plans to open a call center this December in an office building in Chuo Ward, Fukuoka City. The operation of the center will be outsourced t...
Sep 9, 2010 Local News
Kyushu Guidebook for Chinese and Korean Tourists to be Published
Tokyo Chizu Publishing and the Nishinippon Shimbun Co. will publish in November a guidebook for tourists called Chinyu Kyushu. Its primary target is the rapidly growing number of C...
Sep 9, 2010 Local News
Survey of Student Salary Preferences Conducted
The Kyushu Economic Research Center conducted a survey of job-hunting students in Kyushu and found that the students would want 50,000 additional yen in starting salary per month t...
Sep 9, 2010 Local News
Kitakyushu to Promote Eco-Study Tours
Kitakyushu, designated a model environmental city by the national government, will work with travel agencies to encourage eco-study tours for Japanese students of Eco-Town and othe...
Sep 9, 2010 Local News
Sony Subsidiary to Invest JPY 40 Billion in Kumamoto Plant
Fukuoka City-based Sony Semiconductor Kyushu, a Sony subsidiary, announced it will invest roughly 40 billion yen from 2010 to 2011 in its Kumamoto Technology Center. This will boos...
Sep 9, 2010 Local News
Zenrin Publishes Free Info-Map
Zenrin of Kitakyushu has published a free, 80-page booklet of maps and information for Kokura Ward in that city and will distribute it to the ward’s roughly 9,000 residents. The fi...
Sep 9, 2010 Local News
Fukuoka Motorboat Race Course Gets High-Def Video Screen
The Fukuoka City Motorboat Race Course now boasts Aurora Vision, an LED technology screen made by Mitsubishi Electric that is the largest high-definition video screen in the world....
Sep 9, 2010 Local News
Fukuoka Non-Profit for Korean Student Internships Certified
The Fukuoka City-based Japan-South Korea Internship Association, which promotes the acceptance of South Korean university students as interns at local companies, has been certified...
Sep 9, 2010 Local News
Sasebo Company Combines Restaurant and Vegetable Production Site
Sho-ya Food System of Sasebo, Nagasaki Prefecture, has built and begun operating Kyushu’s first vegetable production site in combination with a restaurant—in this case, the company...
Sep 9, 2010 Local News
Kyushu Electric, Saibu Gas Move in Opposite Directions for October Rates
Kyushu Electric Power will raise electricity rates in October for the sixth consecutive month, while Saibu Gas will lower the prices it charges for gas for the first time in six mo...