Workers at a major Tokyo department store went on strike on Thursday after talks with management over the planned sale of their company broke down, marking the first major walk-out the country has seen in decades. The deal will close on Friday, Seven & i said, adding it had reduced Sogo & Seibu’s sale value by 30 billion yen ($205 million) from the originally agreed 250 billion yen after requesting Fortress give “maximum consideration of Sogo & Seibu’s business continuation and continuation of employment”. “You can acquire a Japanese company, as a foreigner, through brute force, and it’s not going to do you any good if the people who are actually managing the Japanese company and working for the Japanese company aren’t happy with results,” he said