Local News

Kyushu Bureau of Economy, Trade, and Industry and the Kyushu Economic Federation formed the provisionally named Kyushu Global Industry Personnel Council on the 28th. The objective is to increase the percentage of foreign students studying in Kyushu who go on to employment at local companies. Participating in the council will be all the Kyushu prefectures, specially designated cities, regional economic groups, and universities. Statistics show that 17,488 foreign students were attending Kyushu universities as of May 2010, 12.3% of the national total. That same year, however, only 419 students had been employed at local companies, just 5.3% of the national total.