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...north of Tokyo, was once an electronics boomtown, home to an Aiwa compact-disc factory and six other manufacturers. In January, loss-making Aiwa shut down the plant - and all of its factories in Japan. "People working there, at first, said, oh, this won't affect us," says Genkichi Kon, who operated a snack shop inside the plant. "But gradually, one by one, people were restructured [translation: fired]." Two other factories have also closed. "People in our town are spending their savings for their everyday life," says Yahaba mayor, Mitsuro Kawamura, echoing a trend the government reported in January...
...knows best how to help boy meet girl. Not so, as yet at any rate, in Japan, where the professional matchmaker still plies his ancient and honorable trade with a gusto no computer could possibly match. Perhaps the most successful in Japan today is wispy, 73-year-old Genkichi Ishizaka, who is perfectly certain that he knows the secret of making a marriage stick...
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