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Department store quitting city a sign of the times in central Japan
“I’ve always come to Yanagase because Takashimaya was here. If the store closes, it will be gloomy all around,” says part-time building cleaner Akira Hayashi, 77, on one weekday afternoon in May while standing in the sparsely populated street of closed storefronts. Hayashi fondly recalls his days of drinking at thriving taverns along the shopping street as a young man. About a 15-minute walk from Gifu’s main railway station, Yanagase began developing as a commercial and entertainment district towards the end of the 19th century and flourished between the 1950s and the 1970s. Driven by singer Kenichi Mikawa’s 1966 million-seller ballad “Yanagase Blues”, the district achieved nationwide fame

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