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Mar 18, 2010 Local News
Four Transport Companies Start Mutual Use of Payment Cards
Riders of the Nishi-Nippon Railway (Nishitetsu) transportation network who use their nimoca non-contact payment cards; JR Kyushu with its Sugoca cards, the Fukuoka Municipal Subway...
Mar 18, 2010 Local News
New Hakata Station Building Name Chosen
The name of the new Hakata Station Building set to open with the start of service of the Kyushu Shinkansen in March 2011 is to be JR Hakata City, it was learned. The building will ...
Mar 18, 2010 Local News
Conference Held to Promote Hiring of Foreigners
The Kyushu Bureau of Economy, Trade, and Industry held a conference for local businesses in Fukuoka City on the 15th to promote the hiring of foreigners. About 120 people, includin...
Mar 18, 2010 Local News
First Regional Food Service Industry Sales Decline in Three Years
The Fukuoka branch of Teikoku Data Bank released the results of its survey of the sales of the 50 leading companies in the food service industry in Kyushu and Okinawa Prefecture fo...
Mar 11, 2010 Local News
Earnings for Primary Kyushu Companies Soar
The Kyushu Local Finance Bureau and the Fukuoka Local Finance Branch Bureau released the results of their survey of statistics for the major regional companies for the October-Dece...
Mar 11, 2010 Local News
Sagara Ward to Provide Ward Office Crowding Info on Internet
In advance of the crowded conditions expected at fiscal and business yearend, Sagara Ward in Fukuoka City has instituted a system for the ward office in which information on the nu...
Mar 11, 2010 Local News
Who Knows Where the Shinkansen Goes? Very Few
The Kyushu branch of Dentsu conducted a survey to determine the recognition factor that the new Kyushu Shinkansen will provide direct service from Kagoshima to Osaka after it opens...
Mar 11, 2010 Local News
Saga Law Firm Offers Halal Certification Procedure Service
The Okuno Law Office in Arita-cho, Saga Prefecture, is now offering the first service in the country to conduct the procedures for gaining halal certification for food products sol...
Mar 11, 2010 Local News
Oita Board of Education Knocks Biased Education
The Oita Prefecture Board of Education released its opinion on the 8th that “biased education was conducted” at one junior high school in the prefecture. First year students were d...
Mar 11, 2010 Local News
Regional Bankruptcies at Lowest Level in 37 Years
The Fukuoka branch of Tokyo Shoko Research reports that February corporate bankruptcies in Kyushu and Okinawa Prefecture exceeding 10 million yen in liabilities were down 23.5% fro...