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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...
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 23, 2009 Local News
Toyota Kyushu to Double Kokura Plant Capacity
Toyota Kyushu plans to boost the annual capacity of its Kokura plant assembling parts for hybrid vehicles from 84,000 units to 168,000 units, it was learned. In addition to assembl...
Jul 23, 2009 Local News
Sadaharu Oh to Appear in Kyushu Electric Commercials
Kyushu Electric Power announced it has signed a contract with former Fukuoka Softbank Hawks manager Sadaharu Oh to appear on behalf of the company in television commercials to be s...
Jul 23, 2009 Local News
Grade School Students Ride Sightseeing Bus for Free
Nishitetsu’s excursion sightseeing bus making the rounds of Fukuoka City will be free for all primary school students during summer vacation (July 18 to August 31), the company ann...
Jul 23, 2009 Local News
Toyota Kyushu to Double Kokura Plant Capacity
Toyota Kyushu plans to boost the annual capacity of its Kokura plant assembling parts for hybrid vehicles from 84,000 units to 168,000 units, it was learned. In addition to assembl...
Jul 23, 2009 Local News
Sadaharu Oh to Appear in Kyushu Electric Commercials
Kyushu Electric Power announced it has signed a contract with former Fukuoka Softbank Hawks manager Sadaharu Oh to appear on behalf of the company in television commercials to be s...
