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Yesterday in Kyoto, Hankyu Hyakkaten, a department store located in the center of the city, was closed for all.
It opened in 1976 and had gathered many customers for 34 years, but with a total decline of department stores’ turnover in Japan it also couldn’t get away with its demise. Nowadays all around Japan department stores which had long histories are being forced to close one after another.

Department stores were one of the symbolic venues of Japan’s economic growth. It sprung early 20th century and produced meny fads from there. Famous stores like Mitsukoshi, Daimaru, and Sogo built symbolically decorated big stores in the center of large cities such as Tokyo, Osaka, and Kyoto. They sold the latest fashions to Japanese consumers who aspired to acquire and simulate werstern life style. Hankyu Hyakkaten Umeda headquater store in Osaka was famous for providing ‘kere-raisu’, now internationally known Japanese style rice with curry, in its big restaurant in early Showa era.

Now Japan has suffered from dismal development rate and shirinking population, so consumption of population hasn’t been so much robust as past century. Add to that, consumers’ taste has more and more got diversified and to go shopping in department stores have been less and less necessary. As a result department store companies decide to shut down unprofitable stores and intensify their resources to main ones. Kyoto Hankyu Hyakkaten is one of them to be decided to remove. When its final shutdown moment, many consumers gathered to see its end, which was famous for people as a place to be designated when they are to gather and meet in the center of the city.

(Oda Mitsuo, the president of Asian-Curd)

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