Special bonus in greenbacks

Special bonus in greenbacks

Employees of Taiho supermarket in Kurume, Fukuoka Prefecture, are all smiles after receiving Aug. 25 a fistful of U.S. dollars in a special August bonus. Taiho managers say they paid their 600 employees in dollars as part of the ''Big Bang'' financial deregulation in Japan. ==Kyodo

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