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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...
May 7, 2009 Local News
Kitakyushu Airport-Fukuoka City Taxi Service to be Offered for Free
The 4,500-yen fare for the early morning/late night taxi service between Kitakyushu Airport and central Fukuoka City offered jointly by the Kitakyushu-based Starflyer Airlines and ...
May 7, 2009 Local News
Prefectures to Call for Use of Individual Portable Toilets
Starting this month, Miyazaki and Kagoshima prefectures will begin asking the roughly 200,000 tourists who climb the Kirishima mountains in both prefectures every year to purchase ...
May 7, 2009 Local News
First Drop in Kyushu Electric Power Sales in 22 Years
Kyushu Electric Power released its sales results for FY 2008, which showed the amount of power the company sold fell 2.5% from the previous year to 85.883 billion kW. It was the fi...
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...
