Kose delays cosmetics plant on loss of big-spending tourists

Pandemic deals setback to company's Japan reshoring plans

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Customers try out Kose's high-end Cosme Decorte brand at a Tokyo department store. (Photo courtesy of Kose)

YOHEI KAWAI, Nikkei staff writer

TOKYO -- Japanese cosmetics maker Kose has postponed the opening of its first new factory in the country in four decades as the foreign tourists who have driven the company's sales stay away because of coronavirus travel restrictions.

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