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Apr 2, 2009 Local News
Kagoshima Bank to Focus on Agriculture and Health Care
The Kagoshima Bank of Kagoshima Prefecture released details of its mid-term plan implemented in April. The bank will focus its business on agriculture, southern Kyushu’s biggest in...
Apr 2, 2009 Local News
JR Kyushu, JR West Launch Sales of Passes
JR Kyushu and JR West started selling passes this month that allow for unlimited travel on all of the railway lines of both companies. It is the first time JR Kyushu will sell pass...
Apr 2, 2009 Local News
Japan’s First Female Bus Guide Dies in Beppu
Ayame Murakami, the first female bus guide in Japan, died of old age in Beppu, Oita Prefecture on March 30th. She was 98 years old. After graduating from high school in 1928, Ms. M...
Apr 2, 2009 Local News
Higashikokubaru Mulling Diet Run?
Popular Miyazaki Prefecture Gov. Hideo Higashikokubaru, a former comedian, continued to fuel speculation that he may be considering a bid for a Diet seat in the lower house electio...
Apr 2, 2009 Local News
Insurance Premiums to Rise in Seven Regional Prefectures
The Japan Health Insurance Association, which handles the insurance for the employees of small and medium-sized businesses and their families, has formally set the insurance premiu...
Mar 26, 2009 Local News
Mitsui Mining & Smelting to Seek Delisting
Mitsui Mining & Smelting has decided to apply for delisting from the Fukuoka Stock Exchange. The company says that because there is such little trading of its shares on that e...
Mar 26, 2009 Local News
Saibu Gas Aims to Boost Sales by 16%
Fukuoka City-based Saibu Gas unveiled its new mid-term plan for a three-year period starting in FY 2009. The plan calls for making a stronger sales pitch to large-scale customers t...
Mar 26, 2009 Local News
Cheap Offices Sought in Fukuoka City
Fukuoka City was no exception to the national trend for declining land values in regional cities as reported on the 23rd. The value of both residential and commercial land in the c...
Mar 26, 2009 Local News
Saga Governor to Take Voluntary Pay Cut
Saga Prefecture Gov. Yasushi Furukawa announced he will cut his own salary to take responsibility for the prefectural employees who took Saga brand beef to the United Arab Emirates...
Mar 26, 2009 Local News
Third Sector Companies a Financial Burden
The Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communications released a survey of public-private sector partnerships and public corporations in Kyushu and Yamaguchi Prefecture showing that ...