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1984 Opens a unisex casual wear store in Hiroshima called 'Unique Clothing Warehouse', later shortened to Uniqlo.
1991 Ogori Shoji becomes 'Fast Retailing'.
1994 Over 100 Uniqlo stores operating throughout Japan.
1997 FS adopts strategy from American clothes retailer The Gap to produce and sell their own clothing, outsourcing manufacturing to factories using cheap labour in China. To the recession-hit Japanese the low cost,...