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May 28, 2009 Local News
Small Business Lending Down at Nine Regional Banks
Profits Down or Non-Existent at More than 80% of Primary Regional Companies
May 28, 2009 Local News
Youme Town Kurume Sales Leader Among Shopping Malls
The Kyushu Economic Research Center released its sales rankings for suburban shopping malls in Kyushu, Yamaguchi Prefecture, and Okinawa Prefecture for FY 2006. At the top of the l...
May 21, 2009 Local News
Saga Prefecture to Charge for Parking at School Lots
Saga Prefecture will introduce a policy of charging teachers to park in school parking lots starting in school year 2010. The objective is to ease the prefecture’s financial crunch...
May 21, 2009 Local News
Toyota Kyushu Posts First Loss in 15 Years
Fukuoka Prefecture-based Toyota Motors Kyushu released its non-consolidated results for the fiscal year ended in March 2009 showing that the company lost money for the first time s...
May 21, 2009 Local News
Daihatsu Kyushu Posts Fourth Straight Revenue Record
With the help of a new model introduced last summer, Oita Prefecture-based Daihatsu Kyushu sold a record number of autos in the year ended March 2009, and posted its fourth straigh...
May 21, 2009 Local News
Business Bad for Regional Banks Last Year
The 18 regional banks based in Kyushu and Yamaguchi Prefecture simultaneously released their business results for the year ended March 2009 on the 15th. Eight of the banks posted n...
May 21, 2009 Local News
Saga University Team Identifies Insect Immune Substances
A team of researchers led by Prof. Yoichi Hayakawa has used moth larvae, which are harmful to cereal crops, to discover insect immune substances that heal external wounds, and to i...
May 21, 2009 Local News
Local Kyushu Governments Promote Mountain Climbing for Korean Tourism
With the higher yen and the lower won putting a damper on tourism from South Korea, local governments in Kyushu are trying to promote mountain climbing as a way to entice more trav...
May 21, 2009 Local News
Kyushu Auto Parts Subcontractors to Boost Orders
A survey by the Kyushu Bureau of Economy, Trade, and Industry revealed that 60% of the Kyushu-based automobile parts manufacturers supplying domestic car companies plan to increase...
May 21, 2009 Local News
Iwata-ya Posts First Current Loss in Ten Years
The Fukuoka City-based department store Iwata-ya released its consolidated results for the year ended March 2009 that showed the company posted its first current loss in 10 years. ...
