THE ASAHI SHIMBUN
February 8, 2020 at 16:35 JST
The blast furnaces of the Kure Works of Nippon Steel Corp. that ended operation in September 2021 (Koichi Ueda)
Japan’s largest steelmaker on Feb. 7 announced drastic cost-cutting measures, including closure of an entire steel works, after it forecast its biggest-ever net loss of 440 billion yen ($4 billion) for the fiscal year that ends in March. [Read More]
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