TOKYO — Corporate Japan has acquired crisis management experience firsthand in recent years. Having lived through the earthquake, tsunami and Fukushima nuclear disaster of 2011, Chairman Kentaro Ohyama of consumer products maker Iris Ohyama is battle-tested. And the 74-year-old is convinced that laying off staffers for short-term relief will only […]
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Iris Ohyama to make masks in Japan as it trims China reliance
TOKYO — Iris Ohyama, a maker of household products, will start producing face masks in Japan without relying on materials from China or elsewhere as it bows to the Japanese government’s aim for domestic industries to diversify supply chains away from China. Iris in June will begin making masks for […]