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May 20, 2010 Local News
Tax Break-Eligible NPO Certifications Lagging in Kyushu
The use of the system to receive tax breaks by donating to non-profit organizations is lagging in Kyushu. Of the 144 NPOs that have received such certification, roughly half are in...
May 20, 2010 Local News
Earnings Improve for Regional Banks
The 18 regional banks headquartered in Kyushu and Yamaguchi Prefecture released their financial reports for the year ended March 2010, which showed that 15 were improved in the net...
May 20, 2010 Local News
Zinc Recovered Inexpensively from Waste Water
Fukuoka Prefecture announced it had developed and put into operation the first device in the country for inexpensively recovering zinc from the waste water at plating plants for re...
May 13, 2010 Local News
Hankyu Ferry Posts First Loss in 10 Years
The Hankyu Ferry Co., which operates a ferry service with Kitakyushu-Kobe and Kitakyushu-Osaka routes, announced it had posted a non-consolidated loss for the year ended March 2011...
May 13, 2010 Local News
Kyushu Commercial Facilities Rebound During Golden Week
Large commercial facilities throughout Kyushu posted sales higher than those of the year-before period during the so-called Golden Week holidays from April 29 to May 5, it was lear...
May 13, 2010 Local News
Taxi Reduction Trial Leads to Revenue Increase
The Fukuoka City Taxi Association reported that its trial of reducing the number of cabs on the street during the four Mondays in April resulted in a per-cab revenue increase of 14...
May 13, 2010 Local News
Freight Traffic at Port of Kitakyushu Down 20%
The city of Kitakyushu reports that the freight volume handled at the city’s port in 2009 was down 20.7% from the year before to 86.74 million tons. The number of ships that entere...
May 13, 2010 Local News
Percentage of Kyushu High School Graduates Finding Work Falls to 94.2%
A report compiled by the Nishinippon Shimbun found that the percentage of March high school graduates in the seven Kyushu prefectures who found employment fell to 94.2%, a decline ...
May 13, 2010 Local News
Personal Walking Tours in Nagasaki to be Given in English
Nagasaki City and a prefectural association of guide/interpreters will begin offering in August walking tours in English guided by locals. These will be the English language versio...
May 13, 2010 Local News
Fukuoka Business District Office Occupancy Rate Rises
The Fukuoka Branch of Miki Shoji announced statistics showing that as of the end of April, the office occupancy rate for Fukuoka City business districts rose 0.12% from the previou...
