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Apr 15, 2010 Local News
First Decline in Four Years for Regional Bankruptcies
The Fukuoka branch of Tokyo Shokoh Research released its report on bankruptcies in Kyushu and Okinawa Prefecture in FY 2009 with liabilities of at least 10 million yen. A total of ...
Apr 15, 2010 Local News
Kyushu University to Train Entrepreneurs
Kyushu University announced it will open an Entrepreneurship Center this year with the objective of inculcating the entrepreneurial spirit in students and providing instruction and...
Apr 15, 2010 Local News
Aeon Kyushu Suffers First Revenue Decline since Exchange Listing
Fukuoka City-based Aeon Kyushu announced that non-consolidated sales for the year ended February 2010 fell 3.7% from the year-before period to 258.9 billion yen. This was the compa...
Apr 15, 2010 Local News
Bird Sanctuary Planned for Hakata Bay Area
A committee to create an eco-zone park in the area around the artificial island Island City in Hakata Bay submitted its final report for the creation of that zone to Fukuoka City M...
Apr 15, 2010 Local News
Unions Fare Poorly with Spring Salary Requests
The Nishinippon Shimbun reports that most of Kyushu’s major companies have reached agreement with their labor unions in the annual “spring labor offensive”. For the most part, thos...
Apr 15, 2010 Local News
Kitakyushu to be Site for Smart Grid Trials
The Agency for Natural Resources and Energy has decided to conduct trials of a new smart grid for electric power in Kitakyushu’s Yahatahigashi Ward, it was learned. The trials are ...
Apr 15, 2010 Local News
Kyushu Bloc Second Nationwide in Community-Run Farms
The Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry, and Fisheries released the results of its annual survey of farms operated by rural communities. As of February 1, there were 13,577 such oper...
Apr 15, 2010 Local News
Fukuoka Soko Establishes Subsidiary for Asian Business
Fukuoka City-based transport and moving company Fukuoka Soko has been establishing subsidiaries for the commercial moving business with a focus on China. The objective is to accele...
Apr 15, 2010 Local News
Saga Prefecture Group Supports NEETs
Saga Prefecture became the first in Kyushu to have a prefecture-level group providing support to NEETs, or people “Not in Employment, Education or Training”. The group, named the S...
Apr 15, 2010 Local News
Lawson’s to Accept JR Kyushu’s Sugoca Card for Payment
JR Kyushu and the Lawson’s convenience store chain announced that roughly 430 of the chain’s outlets in Saga, Nagasaki, Kumamoto, Miyazaki, and Kagoshima prefectures would begin ac...