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Japan's Yakult Honsha Close Lactobacillus Beverage Production Base in Shanghai

Photo taken on Dec 11, 2024 shows Yakult's lactobacillus drink at a supermarket in Hangzhou, East China's Zhejiang province. Recently, Japan's Yakult Honsha announced the closure of its Lactobacillus beverage production base in Shanghai, China - Shanghai plant, which was established in 2004 and has been in operation for 20 years.

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Japan's Yakult Honsha Close Lactobacillus Beverage Production Base in Shanghai

Photo taken on Dec 11, 2024 shows Yakult's lactobacillus drink at a supermarket in Hangzhou, East China's Zhejiang province. Recently, Japan's Yakult Honsha announced the closure of its Lactobacillus beverage production base in Shanghai, China - Shanghai plant, which was established in 2004 and has been in operation for 20 years.

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Japan's Yakult Honsha Close Lactobacillus Beverage Production Base in Shanghai

Photo taken on Dec 11, 2024 shows Yakult's lactobacillus drink at a supermarket in Hangzhou, East China's Zhejiang province. Recently, Japan's Yakult Honsha announced the closure of its Lactobacillus beverage production base in Shanghai, China - Shanghai plant, which was established in 2004 and has been in operation for 20 years.

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Japan's Yakult Honsha Close Lactobacillus Beverage Production Base in Shanghai

Photo taken on Dec 11, 2024 shows Yakult's lactobacillus drink at a supermarket in Hangzhou, East China's Zhejiang province. Recently, Japan's Yakult Honsha announced the closure of its Lactobacillus beverage production base in Shanghai, China - Shanghai plant, which was established in 2004 and has been in operation for 20 years.

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Yakult to sell sheep-shaped soap according to Zodiac

TOKYO, Japan - Yakult Honsha Co. unveils a sheep-shaped piece of soap for sale from Nov. 4, 2014, as 2015 falls on the year of sheep according to the Chinese zodiac.

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Yakult holds opening ceremony for 1st U.S. plant in Calif.

FOUNTAIN VALLEY, United States - Yoshihiro Kawabata (2nd from L), deputy president of Yakult Honsha Co., and other officials cut the tape at the opening of the Japanese fermented lactic drink maker's first U.S. plant in Fountain Valley, California, on May 23, 2014.

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Danone executive

TATEBAYASHI, Japan - John Davison, president of the dairy products division of major French food conglomerate Danone, speaks during a press conference in Tatebayashi, Gunma Prefecture, on April 11, 2013. He said the company is reluctant to launch a hostile takeover bid for Japanese lactic drink maker Yakult Honsha Co., with which it has been in talks to boost its stake in Yakult.

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Watanabe to take over as Yomiuri team chairman

TOKYO, Japan - The Yomiuri Giants said June 7 former team owner Tsuneo Watanabe (file photo) will be appointed team chairman of the Central League club. The 79-year-old Watanabe, chairman of the Yomiuri Shimbun Group Honsha, will be formally appointed to the new post after as a stockholders' meeting on June 23.

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Yakult's Takatsu opts for FA, looks to majors

TOKYO, Japan - Yakult Swallows right-hander Shingo Takatsu speaks to reporters at the head office of Yakult Honsha Co. in Tokyo on Nov. 4 about his decision to exercise his free agency in the hope of landing a deal with a major league club.

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(2)Yakult pitcher Ito announces retirement

TOKYO, Japan - Yakult Swallows right-hander Tomohito Ito announces his retirement at a news conference at the head office of Yakult Honsha in Tokyo on Oct. 29. As the top draft pick for the Swallows in 1993, Ito posted seven wins with four complete game shutouts and was named the Rookie of the Year.

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Watanabe to take over as Yomiuri team chairman

TOKYO, Japan - The Yomiuri Giants said June 7 former team owner Tsuneo Watanabe (file photo) will be appointed team chairman of the Central League club. The 79-year-old Watanabe, chairman of the Yomiuri Shimbun Group Honsha, will be formally appointed to the new post after as a stockholders' meeting on June 23. (Kyodo)

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Ex-Yakult exec given prison term over dubious bond deal

TOKYO, Japan - Naoki Kumagai, a former vice president of Yakult Honsha Co., was sentenced to seven years in prison and fined 60 million yen by the Tokyo District Court on Sept. 12 on five charges related to illicit transactions of so-called ''Princeton bonds'' over the past decade. (Kyodo)

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Transgender worker sues Yakult group firm

A company employee with gender identity disorder (front) attends a press conference in the central Japan city of Nagoya on June 28, 2016, after filing a damages suit against a subsidiary of beverage maker Yakult Honsha Co., claiming she was forced to come out and suffered depression. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Yakult to sell sheep-shaped soap according to Zodiac

TOKYO, Japan - Yakult Honsha Co. unveils a sheep-shaped piece of soap for sale from Nov. 4, 2014, as 2015 falls on the year of sheep according to the Chinese zodiac. (Kyodo)

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Kameido Tenjin Honsha

Kameido Tenjin Honsha==Date:Early Meiji, Place:Tokyo, Photo:unknown, (Credit:Nagasaki University Library/Kyodo News Images)

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Yakult's Takatsu opts for FA, looks to majors

TOKYO, Japan - Yakult Swallows right-hander Shingo Takatsu speaks to reporters at the head office of Yakult Honsha Co. in Tokyo on Nov. 4 about his decision to exercise his free agency in the hope of landing a deal with a major league club. (Kyodo)

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(2)Yakult pitcher Ito announces retirement

TOKYO, Japan - Yakult Swallows right-hander Tomohito Ito announces his retirement at a news conference at the head office of Yakult Honsha in Tokyo on Oct. 29. As the top draft pick for the Swallows in 1993, Ito posted seven wins with four complete game shutouts and was named the Rookie of the Year. (Kyodo)

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Ex-Yakult exec. pleads guilty to tax evasion in bond scandal

TOKYO, Japan - Naoki Kumagai, a former vice president of Yakult Honsha Co. who pleaded guilty at the Tokyo District Court on May 18 to tax evasion charges in connection with illicit transactions of so-called ''Princeton bonds,'' is shown in a file photo. He entered not-guilty pleas on other charges, such as aggravated breach of trust and fraud, concerning the bond transactions which involved the Japanese lactic drink maker and the Tokyo branch of U.S.-based securities firm Cresvale International Ltd.

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Yakult Honsha president apologizes for allegedly false records

TOKYO, Japan - Sumiya Hori, president of Yakult Honsha Co., apologizes to investors at the Tokyo Stock Exchange on Dec. 28 for the company's release of an allegedly false financial statement over the lactic drink maker's purchase of ''Princeton bonds'' that later became worthless. Yakult Honsha, as a corporate body, was indicted the same day for manipulating the company's financial records for the six-month period through September 1997.