JAPAN’S PAINT AND COATING SECTOR FACES TOUGH TIMES AS COVID-19 HITS WHEN INDUSTRY’S OLYMPIC DIVIDEND ENDS
March 2nd, 2020
As with every business sector in every country around the world, Japan’s paint and coatings industry has been thrown into uncertainty over the full impact and longer-term implications of the coronavirus Covid-19 that has swept the globe since first emerging in China in December 2019.
The Japanese government has tried hard to keep the wheels of business and industry turning and, until April 7, had resisted calls from a growing number of health experts to impose a lockdown on this nation of 127 million people. That policy ran contrary to approaches ...
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