Six Straight Months of Sales Declines for Large Retail Stores
The Kyushu Bureau of Economy, Trade, and Industry released statistics showing that sales at large retail stores (department stores and supermarkets) in the Kyushu/Okinawa Prefectur...
Six Straight Months of Sales Declines for Large Retail Stores
The Kyushu Bureau of Economy, Trade, and Industry released statistics showing that sales at large retail stores (department stores and supermarkets) in the Kyushu/Okinawa Prefectur...
Fukuoka City Debt Down to 1.79 Million Yen per Capita
A special finance committee in the Fukuoka City Council responded to questions on the ninth about the city’s indebtedness. The committee answered that their projection for the city...
Infant Care Facility Use Expands in Fukuoka Prefecture
Last October, Kitakyushu was one of the first cities in the country to open areas in public buildings and department stores for mothers to nurse their infants or change their diape...
Kumamoto to Provide Assistance for Welfare Recipients
Kumamoto Prefecture has established a system in which it will lend 38,000 yen per month interest free to university students from families receiving welfare benefits. The system, w...
Saga Airport Leads Nation in Bird Strikes
The Ministry of Land, Infrastructure, and Transport released statistics for the bird strike ratio for Japanese airports. The ratio is based on the number of strikes per 10,000 take...
First Decline in Regional Bankruptcies in 14 Months
The Fukuoka branch of credit rating company Tokyo Shoko Research released statistics for bankruptcies of companies exceeding 10 million yen in the Kyushu-Okinawa region in February...
NEC to Close Kagoshima Facility
NEC subsidiary NEC LCD Technologies announced they will close their Kagoshima Prefecture plant by the end of the year. With the sharp downturn in demand for industrial-use LCD disp...
Nissan Kyushu to Limit Production Cutbacks
Nissan Kyushu that it would reduce the planned production cutbacks at its plant in Kanda-machi, Fukuoka Prefecture, because it had completed its inventory drawdown. The plant was i...
Kyushu Exports Plunge 45.3% in January
Moji Customs reports that exports from the Kyushu region (Kyushu and Yamaguchi and Okinawa prefectures) for the month of January plummeted 45.3% in value terms from the year-before...
Videophone Interpretation Service Starts in Three Fukuoka Facilities
Three Fukuoka City facilities, including the Canal City Hakata commercial complex, are now offering interpretation services using videophones. The service offers interpretation in ...