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JAPAN: Cooler weather lifts Uniqlo September sales
2013-10-02 13:05:00| Daily apparel & textile news and comment - from just-style.com
Fast Retailing recorded an 8.1% increase in same store sales at its Japanese Uniqlo stores in September, thanks to cooler weather during the later half of the month.
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Japan fast-food chain to grow food 100 km from wrecked nuclear plant
2013-10-02 11:21:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Reuters: A Japanese fast-food chain has announced plans to grow rice and vegetables on a farm 100 km (60 miles) from the crippled Fukushima power plant, site of the world's worst nuclear disaster since Chernobyl in 1986. Yoshinoya Holdings, which sells "gyudon", or stewed beef over rice, has formed a joint-venture with local farmers to grow onions, cabbage and rice for use in outlets across the country. About 160,000 people nearest the plant were ordered to move out and the government established a...
Nintendo to Halt Wii Production for Japan to Focus on U Console
2013-10-02 08:43:35| Electronics - Topix.net
Nintendo Co. will soon halt production of the Wii gaming console for Japan, the only major market where its new machine outsells the 7-year-old device.
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Two cargo ships collide off Japan Coast
2013-10-02 01:00:00| Ship Technology
Two cargo ships, the Japanese-registered Eifuku Maru Number 18 and Sierra Leone-registered Jia Hui, have crashed about 11kms west of Izu Oshima Island, leaving at least five Japanese crew members dead and six crew members missing.
VIDEO: Japan sales tax to rise to 8%
2013-10-01 12:26:06| BBC News | Business | UK Edition
Japan is to raise the rate of sales tax to 8% from the current 5%. Professor Naoyuki says the increase is needed to reduce the country's budget deficit but it might "discourage consumption".
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