A spokesperson for Isetan Mitsukoshi Holdings department store, which is s promoting hot pot dishes and other high-end food products for the year-end and New Year season, a time when many families traditionally get together.
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We would like to attract people who feel like enjoying luxury at home during the year-end season.
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sakurasuki
In Japan family tie is no becoming less and less.
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2024-08-25/dying-alone-japan-solitary-deaths/104252356
https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2024/05/14/japan/society/japan-solitary-deaths/
virusrex
From your non-paywalled source:
She had no family and no friends checking on her.
One thing is not to have family links, another is not to have that family in the first place, it is not the same problem.
kohakuebisu
Presumably they mean posh hot pot dishes like shabu shabu or nabe with snow crab. There is nothing luxurious about mizutaki with hakusai, daikon, 30 yen tofu, and some udon to finish.
fwiw, I doubt there is much risk of people who don't "feel like enjoying luxury" walking through the door by mistake at Isetan.