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Jul 23, 2009 Local News
Ten Kyushu Shinkin Banks Lose Money
The 29 shinkin banks in the seven Kyushu prefectures released their financial statements for the year ending March 2009, which showed that 10 lost money and 13 suffered profit decl...
Jul 23, 2009 Local News
Personal Message Service Begun at Five JR Stations
The JR Hakata Station and four other JR stations in Kyushu have begun a service in which people can pay to use the station’s advertising boards with digitized displays for personal...
Jul 23, 2009 Local News
Facilities Completed at Synchrotron Center
A ceremony was held to commemorate the completion of a hard x-ray beamline and a clean experiment station at the Kyushu Synchrotron Light Resource Center in Tosu, Saga Prefecture. ...
Jul 23, 2009 Local News
Fukuokans Increasingly See Street Stalls as Tourist Resource
A joint questionnaire survey conducted by the Kyushu University School of Engineering and the Kyushu Economic Research Center shows that the residents of Fukuoka City increasingly ...
Jul 16, 2009 Local News
Kagoshima School Opens Branch in Tokyo
The National Institute of Fitness and Sports in Kanoya, a university in Kagoshima Prefecture, will open a satellite campus in Tokyo in August for adults in the capital region. The ...
Jul 16, 2009 Local News
New Outlet Openings of Large Retail Stores Fall 21%
The Kyushu Bureau of Economy, Trade, and Industry reports that notifications of new outlet openings for large retail stores in Kyushu (defined as having a floor area of 1,000 squar...
Jul 16, 2009 Local News
Nishitetsu Enters the Condominium Remodeling Business
Nishi-Nippon Railway (Nishitetsu) has launched an enterprise for the purchase, renovation, and resale of condominiums built roughly 20 years ago in the Fukuoka City area. The econo...
Jul 16, 2009 Local News
Kyushu University to Build Robot Center
Kyushu University announced plans to create an R&D center for robots for use in medical treatment. The center will be part of their university hospital. In addition to R&...
Jul 16, 2009 Local News
Starfish Causing Problems with Shrimp Industry
The sharp increase in the number of starfish in Tachibana Bay in Isahaya and Unzen in Nagasaki Prefecture is causing problems with shrimp fishing, now in its peak period. A survey ...
Jul 16, 2009 Local News
Efforts Underway to Attract Aviation Industry to Fukuoka
With the region’s core automotive and semiconductor industries suffering from the economic doldrums, the government of Fukuoka Prefecture is turning to the aviation industry to pic...
