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Aug 12, 2010 Local News
Capital Investment Expected to Rise First Time in Three Years
The Kyushu branch of the Development Bank of Japan announced the results of its survey of the planned capital investments in Kyushu by medium-sized and large companies in 2010. Thi...
Aug 12, 2010 Local News
Mitsui High-Tec Projects Third Straight Loss
Kitakyushu-based Mitsui High-Tec revised downward its earnings forecast for the year ending January 2011 from a projected current profit of three billion yen to a loss of one billi...
Aug 5, 2010 Local News
KIT, Bank Form Ties
The Kyushu Institute of Technology and Fukuoka city-based Nishi-Nippon City Bank finalized a cooperative agreement on August 2. The objective is to create a network for strengtheni...
Aug 5, 2010 Local News
Osamu Shimomura Autobiography Forthcoming
Boston University Medical School Professor Emeritus Osamu Shimomura, one of three recipients of the Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2008, has written an autobiography that will be publish...
Aug 5, 2010 Local News
Travel Agencies to Launch Regional Bus Service for Tourism
The Kyushu Tourism Promotion Organization, JTB, and other travel agencies will launch in October the Nanairo Kyushu Bus, an excursion bus service linking train stations, airports a...
Aug 5, 2010 Local News
Net Profit Improves for 20 Kyushu Shinkin Banks
The 28 Kyushu-based shinkin banks released their financial results for the year ended March 2010, which showed that 20 of them recorded improvements in net profit. Nine of these ba...
Aug 5, 2010 Local News
Nishi-Nippon City Bank Permits Chinese Yuan Settlements
The Fukuoka City-based Nishi-Nippon City Bank began on August 2 allowing settlement of trade contracts between Japanese and Chinese firms using the Chinese yuan. It is the first ba...
Aug 5, 2010 Local News
Panasonic Subsidiary Reorganization Brings Employees to Kyushu
Tokyo-based Panasonic subsidiary Panasonic System Networks announced a major reorganization of its R&D and manufacturing units in Japan. As a result, the number of employees a...
Aug 5, 2010 Local News
Nishitetsu to Form Dutch Subsidiary
Fukuoka City-based Nishi-Nippon Railway (Nishitetsu) announced it will launch in September a subsidiary in Amsterdam, The Netherlands, for the international logistics business. Ams...
Aug 5, 2010 Local News
Red Tide Kills More than Two Million Fish in Yatsushiro Sea and Ariake Sea
Two years of red tides caused by large quantities of plankton in the Yatsushiro Sea and the Ariake Sea has killed an estimated 2.44 million aquafarmed fish, primarily yellowtail am...
