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Dojinshi specialty shop will live on in other capacities, but its 28-year-run in Akihabara is coming to an end.
Special displays, sales, and even book fortunes commemorate Sanseido moving on to its next chapter.
Photos show iconic exterior being torn down, putting a giant question mark over the future of the popular tourist site.
Serving diners since the days of the samurai and once loved by famous writers like Natsume Soseki, this long-standing business will soon be no more.
February 5 was supposed to be like any other day for employees at the Japanese watch company Citizen in Guangzhou, China. But ordinary quickly turned into extraordinarily terrible when over 1,000 employees found out the company was closing the very next day and they would all be out of jobs.
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