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May 21, 2009 Local News
Space World Popularity Making a Comeback
The Kitakyushu amusement park Space World revealed that park visitors rose 4.8% from the previous year to 1.54 million in FY 2008. It was the first increase in the total of park vi...
May 21, 2009 Local News
Business Booming for Plenus Since Spinoff
Fukuoka City-based Plenus, a chain store company selling takeout bento meals, was spun off from Hokahoka-tei one year ago to open and operate the Hotto Motto bento outlets. The com...
May 21, 2009 Local News
Space World Popularity Making a Comeback
The Kitakyushu amusement park Space World revealed that park visitors rose 4.8% from the previous year to 1.54 million in FY 2008. It was the first increase in the total of park vi...
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...
