![]() In 2022, the nation reported fewer than 800,000 births, the lowest on record. When Kimura founded Miki House in 1971, Japan had about 2.6 million births a year and was undergoing a rapid economic expansion that prompted parents to splurge on fashionable goods for their youngsters. ![]() The clothier has endeared itself to generations of parents with attention to detail, such as techniques in attaching buttons to keep them from becoming a choking hazard.īut as Japan's population ages, there's less demand for products like its 242,000 yen white goose down coats for toddlers who will soon outgrow them. Privately-owned Miki House, like other Japanese companies, is contending with a shrinking workforce, with an estimated shortage of 3.41 million workers by 2030, according to labour policy research group Recruit Works Institute. "'Made in Japan' would be my wish, but it's not easy, because the craftsmen are gone." "As much as possible, we want to produce here," he told Reuters in an interview, referring to a network of 200 domestic partner factories. President Koichi Kimura said the Osaka-based company, which has developed a global reputation based on Japanese technology and quality, has turned beyond its shores as the population ages and its workforce shrinks. TOKYO, March 29 (Reuters) - Japan's Miki House, a maker of luxury baby and children's goods in a country with ever-fewer births, is looking overseas for both production and customers for products like its 100,000 yen ($760.40) Gold Label brand pyjamas. ![]()
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