{"id":138726,"date":"2021-02-08T09:54:45","date_gmt":"2021-02-08T00:54:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/?post_type=news&#038;p=138726&#038;lang=en"},"modified":"2021-02-08T09:54:45","modified_gmt":"2021-02-08T00:54:45","slug":"mk-taxi-hires-200-drivers-for-post-pandemic-demand","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/en\/news\/mk-taxi-hires-200-drivers-for-post-pandemic-demand\/","title":{"rendered":"MK Taxi Hires 200 Drivers For Post-pandemic Demand"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Local taxi company, Fukuoka MK, plans to recruit some 200 drivers to prepare for post-pandemic demand. The company announced on Feb. 2 that it would quadruple the number of new employees for the fiscal year of 2021 compared to previous years. It plans to acquire additional 50 cars for regular operation and also expand clients for hire charter services. Fukuoka MK also intends to provide work opportunities for those who lost jobs during the pandemic. <\/span><b>Source:<\/b> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mk-group.co.jp\/about\/images\/release\/210202recruit_fukuoka.pdf\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Fukuoka MK<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-138727\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/mk-taxi.jpg?resize=1024%2C768&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" width=\"1024\" height=\"768\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/mk-taxi.jpg?resize=1024%2C768&amp;ssl=1 1024w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/mk-taxi.jpg?resize=300%2C225&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/mk-taxi.jpg?resize=768%2C576&amp;ssl=1 768w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/mk-taxi.jpg?w=1400&amp;ssl=1 1400w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1000px) 100vw, 1000px\" \/><a href=\"https:\/\/ja.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/%E3%83%95%E3%82%A1%E3%82%A4%E3%83%AB:Mk6909.jpg\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Photo by mariemon<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<p><b><i>Disclaimer<\/i><\/b><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">: Fukuoka Now posts summaries of Kyushu area news for those who cannot read Japanese. These are mostly summaries of publicly posted news from the Japanese media. Errors might occur during translation, those are ours. Images are sourced separately and are for illustrative purposes only. Use<\/span><\/i><a href=\"http:\/\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/contact\/\"> <i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">this form<\/span><\/i><\/a><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> to send feedback. Please share links to this page, it helps us.<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n<p><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">More Kyushu news on<\/span><\/i><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/FukuokaNow\"> <i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Twitter<\/span><\/i><\/a><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">,<\/span><\/i><a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/fukuokanews\/\"> <i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Instagram<\/span><\/i><\/a><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, and<\/span><\/i><a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/fukuokanow\"> <i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Facebook<\/span><\/i><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Local taxi company, Fukuoka MK, plans to recruit some 200 drivers to prepare for post-pandemic demand. The company announced on Feb. 2 that it would quadruple the number of new employees for the fiscal year of 2021 compared to previous years&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":29305,"featured_media":138727,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","tags":[],"class_list":["post-138726","news","type-news","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","location-fukuoka-prefecture","news-category-business","en-US"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/138726","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/news"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/29305"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=138726"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/138727"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=138726"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=138726"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}