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Apr 22, 2010 Local News
Plenas to Open Bento Shops in Beijing
Fukuoka City-based Plenas, which operates the Hotto Motto bento shops, announced plants to open takeout bento shops in Beijing, China. It would be the company’s first attempt to ru...
Apr 22, 2010 Local News
Kyushu New Car Registrations Rise First Time in Seven Years
A prefectural association of auto dealers released its report on the number of new car registrations in the seven Kyushu prefectures during FY 2009. The report showed there were 29...
Apr 22, 2010 Local News
Yamaguchi Financial Group to Establish Bank of Kitakyushu
The Yamaguchi Financial Group, based in Shimonoseki, Yamaguchi Prefecture, which operates the Bank of Yamaguchi and the Momiji Bank, announced plans to convert their Kyushu branche...
Apr 22, 2010 Local News
Ringer Hut to Open Drive-Through Shop
Ringer Hut, the Fukuoka City-based champon chain store, announced it would add drive-through sales capability to one of its shops in Sasebo, Nagasaki Prefecture. Customers will be ...
Apr 22, 2010 Local News
Unseasonably Cool Weather Harming Crops
Temperatures fell below the freezing point in some parts of Kyushu in late March, which is having a detrimental effect on seasonal agricultural products. Tea and other early spring...
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...
