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Article: Coffee shops struggling for survival by offering own blends.
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- Kyodo News International (Tokyo, Japan)
- Article date:
- August 26, 2005
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Byline: Yuko Komori
Aug. 26--TOKYO -- With continuing decreases in coffee shops under private management and sharp increases in self-service chain shops, private coffee shops in Tokyo and Osaka are struggling for survival by offering their own particular lineups of coffee.
According to figures from the Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communications, there were 150,000 coffee shops across the country in the first half of the 1980s, but that number had dropped to some 84,000 last year.
In the Tokyo metropolitan area, the number decreased from about 18,000 to some 8,000 while in Osaka Prefecture it dropped from about 23,000 to some 13,000.
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