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As part of the Japanese government's “Future Tokyo” strategy initiative, the new “Anime Tokyo Station” exhibition space will be opening in Tokyo's Ikebukuro area on October 31, 2023.
The shutters were down on one of Japan's best-known department stores on Thursday in the sector's first strike for six decades, sparked by fears that its mooted new US owner will slash jobs.
Rest of World News: Workers at a major Tokyo department store went on strike on Thursday after talks with management over the planned sale of their company broke down, ma
About 900 members of the labor union representing Sogo & Seibu participated in the strike at the Seibu department store in Ikebukuro.
TOKYO (Reuters) -Workers at a major Tokyo department store went on strike on Thursday after talks with management over the planned sale of their company broke down, marking the first major walk-out the country has seen in decades. Some 900 workers at the flagship Seibu store in the bustling district of Ikebukuro are protesting the planned sale of their company Sogo & Seibu, a unit of retail giant Seven & i, to U.S. fund Fortress Investment Group. Critics, which include local officials in Ikebukuro, argue that such a change, which would replace many individual boutiques in store, wo...