JAPAN’S COSMETICS SECTOR EMERGES WITH STRENGTH FROM LAST YEAR’S EARTHQUAKE DISASTER
April 1st, 2012
BY JULIAN RYALL, IN TOKYO
At 2:46 p.m. on March 11, Japan came to a standstill for a minute of silence to remember the Great East Japan Earthquake and its tsunami.
And while the cosmetics and personal care sector might not have been in a position to provide much assistance in the physical reconstruction of communities that were impacted, it has been innovative in its efforts to assist those in need.
That aid - in the form of volunteers delivering cosmetics goods to people living in emergency shelters, workshops offering advice on skin care, massage and ...
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