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UNIQLO

Japan Times
BUSINESS / Companies
Mar 26, 2021
Muji operator shares tumble as brand seen at risk of China boycott
Shares in Uniqlo operator Fast Retailing also fell in morning trading before recovering.
Japan Times
BUSINESS / Companies
Mar 23, 2021
Japanese billionaire’s drab clothing firm becomes a sportswear sensation
Shares in Yoshio Tsuchiya's Workman Co. have more than quadrupled since the start of 2018.
Japan Times
BUSINESS / Companies
Feb 19, 2021
One Fast Retailing share for ¥100,000 sparks concern over Nikkei dominance
Fast Retailing has risen about 80% in the past 12 months and the price per share broke the u00a5100,000 level on Tuesday, making it the only listed company in Japan to trade at such a value.
Japan Times
BUSINESS
Jan 14, 2021
Uniqlo owner’s stock hits record as shoppers go casual in pandemic
Operating profit rose 23% to u00a5113.1 billion ($1.1 billion) in the three months ended Nov. 30, according to a company statement released Thursday.
Japan Times
BUSINESS / Companies
Jun 19, 2020
Japanese shoppers queue and crash website for Uniqlo's washable masks
Japanese shoppers queued at Uniqlo stores and crashed its website on Friday as the clothing chain began selling face masks with breathable fabric used in the brand's popular underwear, preparing for the coronavirus outbreak lasting through summer.
Japan Times
BUSINESS / Companies
Jun 15, 2020
Uniqlo rolls out reusable mask line as retailers adapt to virus
Uniqlo joins a constellation of businesses seeking to offer new products and services as the coronavirus pandemic upends lifestyles around the globe.
Japan Times
BUSINESS
Jun 9, 2020
Robust sales in China keep Uniqlo owner Fast Retailing on top amid pandemic
With much of Asia having subdued the spread of COVID-19, Fast Retailing is seeing trade return to its Uniqlo stores.
Japan Times
BUSINESS / Companies
Jun 3, 2020
Despite pandemic, Uniqlo to open new store in Tokyo's Harajuku
The opening of the shop follows a 56.5 percent plunge in Fast Retailing's domestic same-store sales in April, its worst year-on-year decline.
Japan Times
BUSINESS / Companies
May 24, 2020
Fast Retailing to start selling breathable, fast-drying masks in summer
Fast Retailing Co. plans to start selling face masks in the summer to deal with the spread of the novel coronavirus, company officials said Sunday.
Japan Times
BUSINESS / Companies
Feb 8, 2020
Half of Uniqlo, Muji stores closing in virus-hit China
Retailers are expanding outlet suspensions in China amid the unfolding coronavirus crisis, with about half of the Uniqlo apparel and Muji household goods stores there being shut.
Two of America’s biggest debt holders are dumping Treasurys
The U.S. Treasury building in Washington. Investors in Japan and China sold a pile of U.S. debt in the last quarter, just before the U.S. presidential election.
Tokyo Metro’s overseas efforts begin in earnest with London deal
Tokyo Metro will soon have a role in the running of London's Elizabeth Line, a major train route serving the U.K.’s capital city and environs.
Russia fired experimental ballistic missile at Ukraine, Putin says
Ukrainian firefighters work on a spot following an airstrike in Dnipro on Thursday.
Ex-yokozuna Kitanofuji dies at 82
Yokozuna Kitanofuji enters the ring during the May 1970 grand sumo tournament in Tokyo.
Man charged with murder allegedly made victim date other men for money
A car carrying suspect Ryotaro Masuda, who was indicted for allegedly beating his 25-year-old girlfriend to death, leaves the Shibuya Police Station in Tokyo on Thursday.
The slow-burn success of ‘A Samurai in Time’
A 19th-century warrior gets struck by lightning and wakes to find himself in 21st-century Kyoto in Junichi Yasuda’s surprise hit “A Samurai in Time.”
Around a quarter of Japan married couples in their 20s met through dating apps
A survey released by an organization promoting “Good Couples Day” shows that 24% of couples in their 20s met their marriage partner through a dating app.
'Tokyo Swindlers': Get deep into the minds of real estate con artists
In Ko Shinjo's "Tokyo Swindlers," a group of con artists manipulates real estate giants into falsified deals within the highly competitive, quick market.
Japan, U.K. and Italy discuss inviting more countries to joint fighter project
A new concept model of a next-generation fighter jet to be jointly developed by Japan, Britain and Italy is on display in Farnborough, Hampshire, in July.
Haruki Murakami's 'The City and Its Uncertain Walls' gives deep deja vu
For “The City and Its Uncertain Walls,” translated into English by Philip Gabriel, Haruki Murakami confronts the ghosts who won't leave him alone.

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