Japan's cosmetics shipments top record

Makeup exports, shopping by tourists underpinned increase

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Foreign tourists hunt for cosmetics at a drugstore in Osaka.

TOKYO -- Shipments by Japan's cosmetics makers rose 1.2% to a record 1.52 trillion yen ($13.8 billion) in 2016, aided by rising exports and robust demand from foreign visitors.

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