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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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Saga Prefecture Now 100% Broadband Capable
Saga Prefecture became the first of Kyushu’s prefectures to be fully broadband capable at the end of March, according to the prefectural government. The coverage now includes Fuji-...
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Nishi-Nippon City Bank in Joint Financing of Kagoshima Cancer Facility
The Fukuoka-based Nishi-Nippon City Bank and seven other financial institutions announced they will provide a total of four billion yen in financing to the Medipolis Medical Resear...