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Oct 2023
Business Breakfast: Harrogate-based Japanese shop celebrates 25th anniversary
Jez and Hiromi Willard.
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A Harrogate-based authentic Japanese store has celebrated its 25th anniversary.
The Japanese Shop, which has a distribution centre on Hookstone Avenue, sells a range of Japanese goods including kimonos and dolls.
The business was first based in Westminster Arcade in 1998, but was forced to move online during the 2008 financial crash.
Since then, the firm has gone onto grow its online store and regularly hosts pop up shops at RHS Harlow Carr.
Jez Willard, who founded the company with his wife Hiromi, said:
“We were, and still are, so passionate about Japan and Japanese culture.
“We feel a very strong sense of duty to offer our customers the combination of authentic Japanese gifts together with a genuinely first-class customer service experience, exemplified by our free gift-wrapping, which is actually common in Japan.”
Law society to host menopause event
Harrogate and District Law Society has partnered with a solicitors to set up an event focussing on the menopause in the workplace.
Called Menopause Matters, the event will be held at Bowcliffe Hall near Leeds on November 17 between 9.30am and 4pm.
It aims to “shed light on the implications, challenges, and nuances surrounding menopause” both in the workplace and in personal lives.
Proceeds from the event, which is in collaboration with Wetherby-based Hartlaw LLP, will go to towards Daisy Network, a charity dedicated to premature ovarian insufficiency, and the Harrogate and District Law Society.
Tickets cost £85 and can be purchased on the Eventbrite page.
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