Importance of Fukuoka Stock Exchange Diminishing
The Nishinippon Shimbun reports that the merger of the Tokyo and Osaka stock exchanges is likely to call into question the continued existence of the Fukuoka Stock Exchange, where ...
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Reevo to Launch Rental Business for Sub-Compact Electric Cars
Fukuoka City-based Reevo announced it will launch in the city next spring a rental car business based on a short-distance, single passenger electric vehicles manufactured by a Toya...
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Fukuoka Bookstore Competition Intensifying
The Nishinippon Shimbun reports that competition among bookstores in Fukuoka City is intensifying. The main Iwata-ya department store reopened a large bookstore in the Tenjin area ...
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Kyushu Corporate Income Posts First Rise in Seven Years
The Fukuoka and Kumamoto Regional Tax Bureaus released figures for corporate tax statements for 2010 showing that the declared income for corporations in the seven Kyushu prefectur...
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Only 52.6% of Kyushu Grads Find Work
As of October 1, only 52.6% of university students expected to graduate in the spring have found post-graduate employment, according to surveys by the education and health ministri...
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Nishitetsu to Expand Supermarket Operations
Nishi-Nippon Railway Co. will launch a major expansion of its supermarket operations. This will involve the opening of more Nishitetsu stores and Spina outlets, primarily in Fukuok...
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New Oita Station Building to Open in 2015
JR Kyushu released an overview of plans for the Shin-Oita Station building that will open in Oita City in 2015. The facility will be a commercial complex that will be 22 stories hi...
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More People Head to Hakata for Shopping
The Kyushu branch of the Development Bank of Japan released the results of its survey into the effect of the new JR Hakata Station building on local shopping patterns. The survey s...
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Facility for Treating Female Prison Inmates with Mental Disorders Completed
A ceremony was held to mark the completion of the work conducted by the Justice Ministry to remodel and expand the prison hospital in Kitakyushu. It now includes Kyushu’s first fac...
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Kagoshima Governor Opposes Moving Field Carrier Landing Practice to Mageshima
Kagoshima Prefecture Gov. Yuichiro Ito has declared his personal opposition to the Defense Ministry’s planned move of American land-based carrier landings by naval aircraft to the ...