TOKYO -- Japan's largest restaurant operator, Zensho Holdings, will buy U.S. takeout sushi chain Advanced Fresh Concepts, hoping to ride the rise of sushi as an American lunch favorite, while a deepening labor shortage erodes prospects at home.
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