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Japan’s department stores promoting gender-neutral apparel | NHK WORLD-JAPAN News

Posted by March 22, 2023

Some Japanese department stores are taking steps to promote diversity in their apparel departmen

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Meta to cut 10,000 jobs in next round of layoffs…

Posted by March 15, 2023

The company that runs the Facebook social-networking site says it is going to lay off 10,000 wor

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Japan’s department-store sales up for 11th month | NHK WORLD-JAPAN…

Posted by February 27, 2023

The new-year holiday and a return of tourists from overseas were behind double-digit growth in J

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Kyoto shopping street testing fee-based trash cans | NHK WORLD-JAPAN…

Posted by February 15, 2023

A famous food market in Kyoto is testing a system for charging visitors to use trash cans in the

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Tokyu department store in Tokyo’s Shibuya closes after 55 years…

Posted by January 31, 2023

The main outlet of Tokyu Department Store Company in Tokyo's Shibuya Ward closed for good on Tue

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Chinese mainlanders flock to Hong Kong | NHK WORLD-JAPAN News

Posted by January 20, 2023

The end of China's zero-COVID policy means Hong Kong is once again teeming with visitors from th

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Lunar New Year shopping market opens in southern China |…

Posted by January 19, 2023

People in the southern Chinese city of Guangzhou are visiting a holiday shopping market to buy f

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Microsoft to cut 10,000 jobs | NHK WORLD-JAPAN News

Posted by January 18, 2023

US IT giant Microsoft says it is cutting 10,000 jobs, or about 5 percent of its workforce, amid

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Tokyo firm puts new twist on tax-free shopping | NHK…

Posted by January 5, 2023

A new website from Tokyo-based company WAmazing is offering inbound visitors an easy way to do t

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Ukraine on guard against more Russian attacks on infrastructure |…

Posted by November 28, 2022

Ukraine is on guard against the possibility of more Russian attacks on infrastructure, with peop

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