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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...
Aug 5, 2010 Local News
First Export Rise in Four Terms
Moji Customs released trade statistics for the seven Kyushu prefectures plus Yamaguchi and Okinawa prefectures for the January – June period showing that exports from the region to...
Aug 5, 2010 Local News
SMBE’s Account for 54.9% of Kyushu’s CO2 Emissions
The Kyushu Economic Research Center released the results of its study of CO2 Emissions in Kyushu’s seven prefectures. It found that with the exception of the emissions from individ...
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...
