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Nov 19, 2009 Local News
Revenue Down for More than 70% of Local Companies
The current fiscal year interim reports for most of the major Kyushu companies have been released, and of the 54 that reported their sales figures, 41 posted revenue declines, or m...
Nov 19, 2009 Local News
Fukuoka and Busan to Conduct Joint Tour PR in Tokyo and Seoul
The mayors of Fukuoka City and Busan, South Korea, will conduct a promotional event for a package tour of both cities at the South Korean embassy in Tokyo on the 18th. The event is...
Nov 12, 2009 Local News
Trials of Digital Signboards with Public Info to Start
Fukuoka City will begin trials in mid-December of about 5,000 digital signboards placed in JR stations and other public facilities, commercial buildings, convenience stores, and ot...
Nov 12, 2009 Local News
QR Code Trials Start for Fresh Fish
The Nagasaki Prefectural Institute of Fisheries and the Yokohama-based National Research Institute of Fisheries Science, Fisheries Research Agency announced they have begun trials ...
Nov 12, 2009 Local News
Fukuoka Prefecture to Have All Schools Administer Scholastic Ability Test
Under the new Democratic Party of Japan administration, the Ministry of Education has announced a policy of having only selected schools administer the scholastic ability test give...
Nov 12, 2009 Local News
Hirado Tourism Agency Survival at Risk
Plans currently call for the elimination of tolls on the 665-meter bridge linking the city of Hirado in Nagasaki Prefecture with the Kyushu mainland. Collection of the tolls is sub...
Nov 12, 2009 Local News
JR Kyushu Sponsors On-Line Cell Phone Game
JR Kyushu has teamed up with game producer Colopl of Tokyo to offer an on-like game that can be played with cell phones. The idea of the game is to travel Kyushu by train. Traveler...
Nov 12, 2009 Local News
Seven Kyushu Regional Banks Revise Projections Upward
A total of seven of the 17 Kyushu regional banks have revised upward their net profit projections for the year on their interim reports. The banks’ improved outlook results from a ...
Nov 12, 2009 Local News
Kyushu Corporate Income Down 23.4% in 2008
The Fukuoka and Kumamoto Regional Tax Bureaus released information from Kyushu corporate income statements for FY 2008 that shows aggregate corporate income in the region during th...
Nov 12, 2009 Local News
Kyushu Electric to Mix Wood with Coal to Generate Electricity
Kyushu Electric Power announced that it planned to mix wood obtained from forestry thinning operations with coal to generate biomass electricity at their power plant in Ashikita-ma...
