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OCTOBER 27, 2022

Source: The Japan News/Asia News Network

Japanese retailers worry Chinese tourists will spend less this Lunar New Year

With the Lunar New Year holidays in China starting Monday, a busy period for retailers as Chinese tourists to Japan increase around this time of year, concern is spreading among retail businesses over a lowering of Chinese consumers’ desire to spend money this year due to the slowdown of Chinese economic growth and the recent strengthening of the yen.

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LOOK: Noodles hang out to dry in Nara, ‘birthplace’ of somen

 The sun drying process to make somen noodles is underway in Sakurai, Nara Prefecture, which is said to be the birthplace of these thin noodles. At the Tamai Seimensho noodle factory, long noodles hung to dry were blown by a cool breeze. The drying process lasts until mid-March and shipping of Miwa Somen from the factory is planned for around June.

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