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Sep 18, 2008 Local News
Nagasaki Prefecture to Enable Free Shipping for Outlying Island Products
Nagasaki Prefecture will begin an enterprise with Oriental Air Bridge, an airline linking the prefecture’s three main outlying islands with the prefectural airport, to use the airc...
Sep 18, 2008 Local News
Saga Prefecture to Boost Nuclear Fuel Tax
Saga Prefecture announced it will raise the fuel tax rate on Kyushu Electric’s nuclear power plant in Genkai-cho starting in FY 2009 for a five-year period. The current tax rate is...
Sep 11, 2008 Local News
FOMA Contracts Exceed 5 Million Mark in Kyushu
NTT DoCoMo’s Kyushu branch announced that as of the end of August, they had more than 5 million contracts for FOMA, their third-generation cellular telephone, in the Kyushu/Okinawa...
Sep 11, 2008 Local News
Kyushu Electric in Consortium to buy Singapore’s Largest Power Plant
A consortium led by Marubeni and GDF Suez from France, and which includes Kyushu Electric Power, Kansai Electric Power, and the Japan Bank for International Cooperation, will buy S...
Sep 11, 2008 Local News
Spaceworld to Halve Number of Employees
The company operating the Kitakyushu theme park Spaceworld revealed that it would reduce the number of employees at the facility by half. The intent is to reduce personnel costs an...
Sep 11, 2008 Local News
Saga Prefecture Wants to Outsource Forestry Work
Saga Prefecture announced it has launched a project to encourage private companies and local municipalities interested in forest preservation to become involved in forest thinning ...
Sep 11, 2008 Local News
Kyushu Electric to be Involved in China’s Largest Wind Power Project
Kyushu Electric Power will be involved in the operation of China’s largest wind power generation plant to be located in the Mongol Autonomous Region, and which is expected to begin...
Sep 11, 2008 Local News
Rise in Large-Store Retail Sales First in Eight Months
The Kyushu Bureau of Economy, Trade, and Industry released figures showing that large retail store sales in Kyushu and Yamaguchi Prefecture in July rose 0.9% from the previous year...
Sep 11, 2008 Local News
Imari Leads Nation in Growth Rate for Municipal Tax Income
A survey conducted by a financial and business magazine revealed that Imari in Saga Prefecture will have the highest year-on-year growth rate in municipal tax revenue in the nation...
Sep 11, 2008 Local News
Tainted Rice Scandal Damages May Exceed 600 Million Yen for Six Kyushu Sake Brewers
Sake brewers throughout Kyushu are voluntarily withdrawing product from the shelves after it was discovered they used moldy rice acquired from Mikasa Foods, which is now embroiled ...
