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Worldview: Why Japan’s Sogo & Seibu Department Store Employees Went on Strike

This week’s round-up of global markets fashion business news also reveals the succession plan for an Indian retail billionaire, Kenya’s strategy to revitalise its textile industry and forced labour in Turkmenistan’s cotton harvest.
Union members participate in a strike outside a temporarily closed Seibu department store in Tokyo, Japan, on Aug. 31, 2023.
Union members participate in a strike outside a temporarily closed Seibu department store in Tokyo, Japan, on Aug. 31, 2023. (Getty Images)

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