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May 7, 2009 Local News
Sugoca Card a Success
The Sugoca contactless payment card launched in March by JR Kyushu and the Fukuoka City Transportation Bureau has been an immediate success, as more than 100,000 have been issued a...
May 7, 2009 Local News
Kyushu Bureau of Economy Trade and Industry Publishes IT Yellow Pages
The Kyushu Bureau of Economy, Trade, and Industry has published Kyushu IT Yellow Page 2009, a 57-page, A4-sized booklet to present information on companies that provide IT services...
May 7, 2009 Local News
First Revenue Decline in Seven Years for Nishitetsu
The Nishi-Nippon Railroad (Nishitetsu) consolidated financial results for FY 2008 reveal that the company’s current profit dropped 43.0% to 9.185 billion yen and its net profit fel...
May 7, 2009 Local News
Daihatsu to Move Back Opening of Fukuoka City Design and Development Center
Daihatsu Motor Co. revealed that the opening of the vehicle design and development center its subsidiary, Daihatsu Kyushu, had planned in Fukuoka City for April 2010 has been pushe...
May 7, 2009 Local News
Supreme Court Rejects Claim of Corporal Punishment in Kumamoto Case
In 2002, a part-time teacher in a primary school in Amakusa, Kumamoto Prefecture, grabbed the shirt front of a second-grader to scold him. Two lower courts ruled that this constitu...
May 7, 2009 Local News
JR Kyushu Net Profit Plunges 80%
JR Kyushu released its consolidated financial results for FY 2008 showing that net profit plummeted 80.3% to 1.822 billion yen. The primary reason cited for the decline was 10.2 bi...
May 7, 2009 Local News
Canon Oita’s Dismissed Contract Workers to Receive 200 Million Yen
Canon Oita announced it had reached agreement with one of its subcontractors, Nikken Sogyo of Tokyo, to pay the remaining 200 million yen on the contracts of those workers dismisse...
Apr 30, 2009 Local News
Population Shift to Fukuoka Slows
The Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communications released its statistics for population shifts in 2008, which shows that while the trend within Kyushu for population to flow int...
Apr 30, 2009 Local News
Fuji-cho to Become Information Village
Saga Prefecture has designated Fuji-cho to be the model district in its “information village” program to use information and communications technology for local development. The ob...
Apr 30, 2009 Local News
Brakes Applied to Kyushu Shopping Center Expansion
Brakes Applied to Kyushu Shopping Center Expansion Regional shopping center developers Aeon and the Izumi Group have begun applying the brakes to the opening of new commercial faci...
