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Jul 30, 2009 Local News
Ene-farm Energy System for Households Gaining Popularity
Ene-farm, a fuel cell cogeneration system for households that uses natural gas, is increasingly being used by the natural gas industry as a counter to electric power companies that...
Jul 30, 2009 Local News
Kyushu Export Rate Suffers Sharpest Decline in History
Moji Customs announced trade statistics for the Kyushu region, which includes Yamaguchi and Okinawa prefectures, for the January-June 2009 period, showing that exports fell 39.9% f...
Jul 30, 2009 Local News
Seagaia Posts 500 Million Yen Loss
The Phoenix Seagaia resort in Miyazaki Prefecture revealed that it recorded an operating loss of 500 million yen on the non-consolidated account for the year ended March 2009. It i...
Jul 30, 2009 Local News
Kyushu Investment Fund to be Launched
Toyo Capital, a subsidiary of the Tokyo-based, mid-tier securities company Toyo Securities, plans to create an investment fund to provide the start-up capital to new Kyushu compani...
Jul 30, 2009 Local News
Lower Won Halves Foreign Tourist Lodgings
The Kyushu District Transport Bureau reports the number of tourists lodging in Kyushu during the January-March 2009 quarter fell by 8.0% from the previous year to roughly 7.416 mil...
Jul 23, 2009 Local News
Late-Night Bus Service to Miyazaki to End
The Nishi-Nippon Railway Co. (Nishitetsu) and Miyazaki Kotsu announced they will suspend their late night express bus service between Fukuoka City and Miyazaki City on September 1....
Jul 23, 2009 Local News
Two Fukuoka Municipalities to Recover Rare Metals from Garbage
The city of Chikugo and O’oki-machi in Fukuoka Prefecture have decided to establish a new category for small consumer electronics products when separating garbage for collection to...
Jul 23, 2009 Local News
Huis ten Bosch Asks for Capital Injection
The Huis ten Bosch resort in Sasebo, Nagasaki Prefecture, asked its parent company, Nomura Principal Finance in Tokyo, to find another Japanese company and provide financial suppor...
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...