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Dec 1, 2011 Local News
Only Three Saga Municipalities Have Asset Disclosure Laws
Citizen’s Ombudsman Fukuoka reports that only three of Saga Prefecture’s 21 municipalities have asset disclosure laws for their mayors or council members. Further, only one municip...
Dec 1, 2011 Local News
Plenus to Expand to South Korea
Fukuoka City-based Plenus, which operates the Hotto Motto chain selling takeout bento meals, announced they will establish a company in South Korea in January. That company would o...
Dec 1, 2011 Local News
Miyazaki City the Most Inexpensive in Japan
A survey of urban prices by the Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communications for 2010 found that Miyazaki City in Miyazaki Prefecture was the cheapest in Japan for the fourth ye...
Dec 1, 2011 Local News
Council Formed to Promote Foreign Student Employment
Kyushu Bureau of Economy, Trade, and Industry and the Kyushu Economic Federation formed the provisionally named Kyushu Global Industry Personnel Council on the 28th. The objective ...
Dec 1, 2011 Local News
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 ...
Nov 24, 2011 Local News
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...
Nov 24, 2011 Local News
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 ...
Nov 24, 2011 Local News
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...
Nov 24, 2011 Local News
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...
Nov 24, 2011 Local News
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...