Toyota Kyushu to Cancel Contracts with 800 Seconded Employees
Toyota Motors Kyushu announced that it planned to cancel the contracts of 800 seconded employees, nearly 10% of its workforce, due to scheduled production cutbacks. The production ...
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Saibu Gas Posts First Loss in 30 Years
Fukuoka City-based Saibu Gas revealed that it expects to suffer a non-consolidated loss for the year ending March 2009 due to skyrocketing liquid natural gas prices. This will be t...
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Kagoshima Bank to Launch Agricultural Fund
The Kagoshima Bank of Kagoshima City will join with six local companies to launch the Agricluster Fund for companies in the agricultural sector in southern Kyushu this month. It wi...
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Fuel Prices Put Kyushu Ferries in a Bind
The Kyushu Long-Distance Ferry Association reported the results of its survey of six companies with eight routes starting and ending in Kyushu for the ratio of fuel costs to operat...
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Kyushu Capital Investment Down 1.7%
The Kyushu branch of the Development Bank of Japan revealed the results of its survey of trends for capital investment in the seven Kyushu prefectures in 2008. It found that compan...
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FFG Creates Consulting Firm for Corporate Clients
Fukuoka Financial Group member Fukuoka Bank announced the formation of the FFG Business Consulting Co., which will specialize in providing consulting services to the corporate cust...
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Saga Think Tank to Disband
The only think tank in Saga Prefecture, the Saga Economic Survey Association, announced it will disband next month. The association said that the number of requests for surveys has...
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Fukuoka Children’s Hospital to Move to Artificial Island
Fukuoka City has decided to split the Infectious Diseases Department from the Fukuoka Children’s Hospital and Medical Center for Infectious Diseases and create a medical facility s...
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Seven Kyushu Shinkin Banks in Red
The 29 Kyushu-based shinkin banks released their financial figures for the fiscal year ended March 2008 on the 25th, which showed that seven suffered a net loss for the year. This ...
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Applications Being Received for Work-Life Balance Subsidies
The Fukuoka Labor Bureau is accepting applications from small and medium-sized companies in the prefecture for the “Workplace Awareness Improvement Subsidy” offered by the Ministry...