Hakata Daimaru to Downsize
The Fukuoka City-based Hakata Daimaru department store company announced a major downsizing of this workforce. Over the next three years starting in August, it will layoff or eliminate 248 employees, bringing their employee total to a number equivalent to three-fourths the workforce in August 2007. The Shimonoseki Daimaru in Yamaguchi Prefecture will also shed 105 employees.