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TOKYO -- Top Japanese
cosmetics maker Shiseido
will open its first domestic
plant in 36 years
on
Christmas Eve,
but the mood around
the occasion is less than festive.
The factory north of Tokyo
was conceived as a way
to satisfy
unmet demand
for the
company's beauty
products
from foreign buyers, with
two more
plants in
the works.
But the expansion plans have
run into unexpected headwinds
from
anti-government protests
in Hong Kong, which threaten
sales there, and
South Korean
boycotts of Japanese goods.
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