Tokyo, Japan—The shutters were down on one of Japan’s best-known department stores on Thursday in the sector’s first strike for
The Seibu in Tokyo’s Ikebukuro district attracts around 70 million visitors a year to its 14 floors, where its ultra-polite staff sell everything from sushi to Armani seven days a week.
Unions, fearing job cuts, called a one-day stoppage for Thursday—the first by Japanese department store workers since 1962. “I’m so interested so I took a two-hour train ride to see it. I think it will have a great impact nationally,” pensioner Susumu Aso, 68, told AFP.Japan’s department stores have struggled in recent years to adapt to 21st-century consumers’ shopping habits.
Strikes are rare in Japan, with only 33 recorded in the world’s third-largest economy in 2022, according to the labour ministry. “Similar cases of strikes may increase in Japan in the future as global corporate mergers and acquisitions become increasingly common globally,” he said.
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