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Jul 2, 2009 Local News
Nation’s First Halfway House for Prisons Opens in Kitakyushu
The Center for Promoting Self-Sufficiency and Rehabilitation, a facility run by the national government as a halfway house for prisoners who cannot be released from jail on parole ...
Jul 2, 2009 Local News
Kyushu Theme Parks Struggling
The Fukuoka City-based Association for the Promotion of Kyushu Theme Parks released figures for admissions to parks in FY 2008 showing that the aggregate number of visitors for the...
Jul 2, 2009 Local News
JR Kyushu Looking to Conduct Business outside Region
JR Kyushu intends to conduct business enterprises outside of Kyushu in Japan and other Asian countries in the future, it was revealed at the company’s general stockholders’ meeting...
Jun 25, 2009 Local News
Fukuoka Stock Exchange to Start Listing Asian Stocks in January
The Fukuoka Stock Exchange revealed the outlines of a plan to list the stocks from other companies starting in January 2010. The Financial Services Agency has been deliberating the...
Jun 25, 2009 Local News
New Device Enables More Intricate Printing of Electronic Circuits
Mitani Micronics of Saga Prefecture, Fine Coating of Nagasaki Prefecture, and the Industrial Technology Center of Nagasaki, a public sector research institute, have begun sales of ...
Jun 25, 2009 Local News
Kyushu Subcontractors Hard Hit by Auto Production Cutbacks
The Kyushu Economic Research Center released the results of a questionnaire survey conducted in April and May of companies in the automobile industry in Kyushu and Yamaguchi Prefec...
Jun 25, 2009 Local News
JR Kyushu Railroad Revenue Down 12%
Jun 25, 2009 Local News
Kyushu’s Earthquake Resistant School Building Percentage: 60.8%
Download the original attachment 学校耐震化率、九州60.8% Kyushu’s Earthquake Resistant School Building Percentage: 60.8% The Ministry of Education released the results of a nationwide surve...
Jun 25, 2009 Local News
Fukutsu Public Land Development Corp. Buys Expensive Forest
An investigation by the Nishinippon Shimbun revealed that a public land development corporation in Fukutsu, Fukuoka Prefecture, bought a forested commercial property in a specially...
Jun 25, 2009 Local News
Nagasaki Prefecture to Cut Tolls to Outlying Islands in Trial
Nagasaki Prefecture said it planned to use the funds derived this year from the conversion of the gasoline surtax to the general fund to conduct a trial for reducing the fare on pa...