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Kyushu’s August Bankruptcies Have Largest Liabilities in Five Years
The Kyushu branch of credit rating agency Tokyo Shohko Research released its monthly report on bankruptcies with at least 10 million yen liabilities in Kyushu and Yamaguchi Prefect...
FOMA Contracts Exceed 5 Million Mark in Kyushu
NTT DoCoMo’s Kyushu branch announced that as of the end of August, they had more than 5 million contracts for FOMA, their third-generation cellular telephone, in the Kyushu/Okinawa...
Kyushu Electric in Consortium to buy Singapore’s Largest Power Plant
A consortium led by Marubeni and GDF Suez from France, and which includes Kyushu Electric Power, Kansai Electric Power, and the Japan Bank for International Cooperation, will buy S...
Spaceworld to Halve Number of Employees
The company operating the Kitakyushu theme park Spaceworld revealed that it would reduce the number of employees at the facility by half. The intent is to reduce personnel costs an...
Saga Prefecture Wants to Outsource Forestry Work
Saga Prefecture announced it has launched a project to encourage private companies and local municipalities interested in forest preservation to become involved in forest thinning ...
Most Kyushu Assemblies Get D Rating by National Ombudsman Group
A national federation of citizen ombudsmen released their “report card” on the transparency, vitality, and effectiveness of expenditures for 103 local governmental assemblies natio...
Venison Hot Dogs
Kwassui Women’s College of Nagasaki City and the Deer Company, which processes the meat from deer raised on their own ranch in Minamishimabara, have jointly developed hot dogs made...
Chimaki-ya Closes
Chimaki-ya, the only department store in Yamaguchi City, closed all operations on August 31st. The company operating the store, which has been in business for 153 years, will reorg...
Governments Work Together to Preserve Niji-no-Matsubara
The governments of the city of Karatsu, Saga Prefecture, and Japan (as represented by the Kyushu Bureau for National Forest Management) signed a memorandum pledging to work togethe...
Fukuoka Prefecture – Busan University Consortium to be Launched
It was revealed that an agreement creating a consortium of 24 universities in Fukuoka Prefecture and the city of Busan, South Korea, will be signed on September 25. The objective o...