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Feb 12, 2010 Local News
Kyushu Large Retail Store Sales Fall for 10th Straight Year
The Kyushu Bureau of Economy, Trade, and Industry released its statistics for large retail stores in the region in 2009. Sales at the stores, which include 26 department stores and...
Feb 12, 2010 Local News
Chinese City Asks Kitakyushu Group to Participate in Environmental Project
The city of Wuhan, China will ask the Kyushu Independent Business Consortium for Sustainable Development (KICS), a group of businesses in the environmental industry in Kitakyushu, ...
Feb 12, 2010 Local News
Fukuoka Stock Exchange to List Asian Companies
The Financial Services Agency has approved the Fukuoka Stock Exchange’s proposed regulations related to listing the stocks of Asian companies, it was reported. The exchange will mo...
Feb 12, 2010 Local News
Big Schedule Modification for Green Bus
The Nishi-Nippon Railroad Co. (Nishitetsu) announced they will rework the schedule of the Green sightseeing bus in Fukuoka City as of March 1. The company plans to eliminate weekda...
Feb 12, 2010 Local News
Korean TV Drama about International Marriage Being Filmed in Fukuoka
Filming began on the 6th of the Korean MBC television drama, Nikkan Kekkon Daisakusen (The Great Japanese-Korean Wedding Operation) at the Kushida Shinto shrine in Fukuoka City. Th...
Feb 12, 2010 Local News
Yufuin Ryokan Team Up to Offer Mutual Services
The Yufuin Spa and Hot Spring Association in Yufuin, Oita Prefecture, announced a new program to add to the appeal of the district as a tourist destination. Lodgers at any one of t...
Feb 12, 2010 Local News
Companies Closing Kyushu Plants
Toshiba subsidiary Toshiba LSI Package Solutions announced it will close its main plant in Miyawaka, Fukuoka Prefecture by November. The plant, which employs 400 people, assembles ...
Feb 12, 2010 Local News
Government Approves Cross-Prefectural Shinkin Bank Merger
The Fukuoka Local Finance Branch Bureau approved the merger of Kishima Shinkin Bank in Takeo, Saga Prefecture, and the Nishikyushu Shinkin Bank in Sasebo, Nagasaki Prefecture. This...
Feb 12, 2010 Local News
Ferry Service between Kitakyushu and Busan to be Restored
The city of Kitakyushu announced that Sojin Ferry of Seoul would begin ferry service between Kitakyushu and Busan in the latter part of April. They plan to operate six round trips ...
Feb 12, 2010 Local News
Rankings Released for Regional Hotels
The Fukuoka branch of Teikoku Databank released its sales rankings for the top 50 hotels in Kyushu and Okinawa in 2008. Their aggregate revenue rose 1.1% from the previous year to ...