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Among service industries, the restaurant, advertising, real estate, hotel and leisure business, and data-processing industries grew rapidly in the 1980s. The fast-food industry has been profitable for both foreign and domestic companies. By 1989 family restaurants and fast-food chains had grown into a US$138 billion business per year. Overall ...
Virgin Cinemas Japan Ltd. was founded by Japanese-American businessman Mark Yamamoto on September 12, 1997. Virgin Cinemas Trias Hisayama, their first theatre, opened in Fukuoka Prefecture on April 23, 1999. By the end of 2002, it expanded from 8 theatres to 81 and became Japan's sixth largest film entertainment company.
Gate of Hell, a 1953 film by Teinosuke Kinugasa, was the first movie that filmed using Eastmancolor film, Gate of Hell was both Daiei's first color film and the first Japanese color movie to be released outside Japan, receiving an Academy Honorary Award in 1954 for Best Costume Design by Sanzo Wada and an Honorary Award for Best Foreign ...
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The Japan Federation of Media, Advertising, Motion Picture, and Theater Labor Unions (Japanese: メディア・広告・映画演劇労働組合連合会, MEDIA ROREN) is a trade union representing workers in the media, advertising and entertainment industries in Japan.
Nikkatsu is Japan's oldest major movie studio, [2] having been founded on September 10, 1912, when several production companies and theater chains, Yoshizawa Shōten, Yokota Shōkai, Fukuhōdō and M. Pathe, consolidated under the name Nippon Katsudō Shashin. [3] The company enjoyed its share of success.
The union was founded in July 2001, when the Japan Federation of Leisure-Service Industries Workers' Unions merged with the Hotel and Restaurant Council of the National Federation of General Workers' Unions. [1] It was affiliated with the Japanese Trade Union Confederation. The union had 44,029 members in 2009, [2] and this grew to 47,454 by ...