{"id":138788,"date":"2021-02-12T14:20:19","date_gmt":"2021-02-12T05:20:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/?post_type=news&#038;p=138788&#038;lang=en"},"modified":"2021-02-12T14:20:19","modified_gmt":"2021-02-12T05:20:19","slug":"japan-tobacco-closes-two-tobacco-factories-in-fukuoka","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/en\/news\/japan-tobacco-closes-two-tobacco-factories-in-fukuoka\/","title":{"rendered":"Japan Tobacco Closes Two Tobacco Factories in Fukuoka"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Japan Tobacco Inc. (JT) announced closures of its two factories in Fukuoka Prefecture. The tobacco factory&#8217;s operations in Chikushino City and the filter factory in Tagawa City will cease in March 2022. Early retirements will become offered to about 400 workers at those factories. Reflecting upon the unlikelihood of the domestic market&#8217;s growth, JT will integrate the domestic headquarter with its office in Geneva, Switzerland. <\/span><b>Source: <\/b><a href=\"https:\/\/www.asahi.com\/articles\/ASP296F8VP29ULFA025.html\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Asahi<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> \/ <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nikkei.com\/article\/DGXZQODZ08BO30Y1A200C2000000\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Nikkei<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> \/<\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www3.nhk.or.jp\/fukuoka-news\/20210209\/5010010872.html\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> NHK<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-138789\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/jt.jpg?resize=800%2C450&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"450\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/jt.jpg?w=800&amp;ssl=1 800w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/jt.jpg?resize=300%2C169&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/jt.jpg?resize=768%2C432&amp;ssl=1 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><b><i>Disclaimer<\/i><\/b><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">: Fukuoka Now posts summaries of Kyushu area news for those who cannot read Japanese. These are mostly summaries of publicly posted news from the Japanese media. Errors might occur during translation, those are ours. Images are sourced separately and are for illustrative purposes only. Use<\/span><\/i><a href=\"http:\/\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/contact\/\"> <i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">this form<\/span><\/i><\/a><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> to send feedback. Please share links to this page, it helps us.<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n<p><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">More Kyushu news on<\/span><\/i><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/FukuokaNow\"> <i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Twitter<\/span><\/i><\/a><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">,<\/span><\/i><a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/fukuokanews\/\"> <i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Instagram<\/span><\/i><\/a><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, and<\/span><\/i><a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/fukuokanow\"> <i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Facebook<\/span><\/i><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Japan Tobacco Inc. (JT) announced closures of its two factories in Fukuoka Prefecture. The tobacco factory&#8217;s operations in Chikushino City and the filter factory in Tagawa City will cease in&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":29305,"featured_media":138789,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","tags":[],"class_list":["post-138788","news","type-news","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","location-fukuoka-prefecture","news-category-business","en-US"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/138788","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/news"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/29305"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=138788"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/138789"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=138788"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=138788"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}