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Aug 20, 2009 Local News
Best Denki Overseas Subsidiaries Arranging Capital Tie-ups
The Taiwan and Singapore subsidiaries of Fukuoka City-based mass merchandiser Best Denki are planning capital partnerships with local companies. The Taiwan subsidiary, which is not...
Aug 13, 2009 Local News
Kyushu Promotion at Shanghai Expo
The World Expo Shanghai to open next May will feature a Kyushu-Okinawa Week on the site. The Japanese pavilion to be operated by the Japanese government will promote tourism in the...
Aug 13, 2009 Local News
Ibusuki Hot Springs to Start New Health and IT Campaign
A group in Kagoshima Prefecture for promoting health by hot springs visits, whose members include the prefectural government, the city of Ibusuki, local hotels, and Kagoshima Unive...
Aug 13, 2009 Local News
ISIT Creates Educational Games for the Visually Disabled
The Institute of Systems, Information Technologies, and Nanotechnologies (ISIT) in Fukuoka City is involved in the creation of a national network for teachers of the visually disab...
Aug 13, 2009 Local News
Enhanced Job Training Provided to Foreign Interns
A Fukuoka Prefecture council of 25 organizations for training foreign workers founded this March has begun a full-scale program of enhancing trainee job skills and Japanese languag...
Aug 13, 2009 Local News
Honda Plans to Cut Motorcycle Production at Kumamoto Plant
Honda Motors revealed it would reduce overall motorcycle and motorbike production at its Kumamoto plant by 40% and shift its focus to the domestic market. New plans call for a 30% ...
Aug 13, 2009 Local News
Kyushu Capital Investment Plunges 22%
The Kyushu branch of the Development Bank of Japan released the figures from its survey of capital investment trends in the seven regional prefectures for FY 2009. The projected ag...
Aug 13, 2009 Local News
New Fund Established to Help Small Businesses
The Ministry of Economy, Trade, and Industry announced a new fund has been established to assist in the reconstruction of small businesses in Kyushu. The fund has been capitalized ...
Aug 13, 2009 Local News
Best Denki Undergoing Drastic Restructuring
Fukuoka City-based Best Denki, the nation’s seventh-largest consumer electronics mass merchandiser, has embarked on a bold restructuring program to deal with their rapidly deterior...
Aug 13, 2009 Local News
Poor Kyushu Rice Crop Expected
The Tokyo-based Rice Databank Inc., a company tracking rice market conditions, released its forecast for the year’s wet paddy rice crop using an index scaled to 100 points. The rat...
