Kyushu-Shinwa asks Fukuoka Financial Group to integrate management

Kyushu-Shinwa asks Fukuoka Financial Group to integrate management

FUKUOKA, Japan - President Takashige Araki of Kyushu-Shinwa Holdings Inc., a local lender in Kyushu, speaks at a news conference in Fukuoka on May 2 where he announced the bank has given up on its own efforts to turn around its business and asked Fukuoka Financial Group Inc. for a merger. Fukuoka Financial, the top lender in Kyushu and the nation's No. 4 regional bank, has replied positively and agreed to begin merger talks as soon as possible, Kyushu-Shinwa said.

World's largest seabird fossil unearthed in Japan

World's largest seabird fossil unearthed in Japan

IWAI, Japan - The photo (bottom) shows what is believed to be the world's largest bone fossil, a humerus, ever discovered of ''plotopteridae,'' a diving seabird that resembled a penguin, researcher Takashige Kawano, 52, of Saga Prefecture, announces at a conference of the Palaeontological Society of Japan in the city of Iwai, Ibaraki Prefecture, on Jan. 28. Above it is the plotopteridae humerus previously discovered. The fossil was discovered in April 1996 under a layer of earth, estimated to be 34 million years old, by Kawano, in the town of Sakito, Nagasaki Prefecture.

Kyushu-Shinwa asks Fukuoka Financial Group to integrate manageme

Kyushu-Shinwa asks Fukuoka Financial Group to integrate manageme

FUKUOKA, Japan - President Takashige Araki of Kyushu-Shinwa Holdings Inc., a local lender in Kyushu, speaks at a news conference in Fukuoka on May 2 where he announced the bank has given up on its own efforts to turn around its business and asked Fukuoka Financial Group Inc. for a merger. Fukuoka Financial, the top lender in Kyushu and the nation's No. 4 regional bank, has replied positively and agreed to begin merger talks as soon as possible, Kyushu-Shinwa said. (Kyodo)

Fukuoka FG, Eighteenth look to create Japan's biggest regional bank

Fukuoka FG, Eighteenth look to create Japan's biggest regional bank

(From L) Shinwa Bank President Shunsuke Yoshizawa, Fukuoka Financial Group Inc. President Takashige Shibato and Eighteenth Bank President Takujiro Mori join hands in Fukuoka, southwestern Japan, on Feb. 26, 2016, after agreeing to start negotiations on management integration that would create Japan's largest regional lender. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

World's largest seabird fossil unearthed in Japan

World's largest seabird fossil unearthed in Japan

IWAI, Japan - The photo (bottom) shows what is believed to be the world's largest bone fossil, a humerus, ever discovered of ''plotopteridae,'' a diving seabird that resembled a penguin, researcher Takashige Kawano, 52, of Saga Prefecture, announces at a conference of the Palaeontological Society of Japan in the city of Iwai, Ibaraki Prefecture, on Jan. 28. Above it is the plotopteridae humerus previously discovered. The fossil was discovered in April 1996 under a layer of earth, estimated to be 34 million years old, by Kawano, in the town of Sakito, Nagasaki Prefecture.