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Rare strike closes Japanese department store

Staff fear cuts if money-losing Sogo and Seibu chain is sold to US investors

Unionised workers of Sogo & Seibu hold banners reading “on strike” in front of the company’s flagship Seibu Ikebukuro store in Tokyo on Thursday. (Photo: Reuters)

TOKYO – The shutters came down on one of Japan’s best-known department stores on Thursday in the retail sector’s first strike for six decades, sparked by fears that its mooted…

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