Sayonara: McDonalds Closed Down 200 locations -- In Japan!

It looks like the power outages caused by the catastrophic tsunami had some impact on these decisions. Interestingly, however, net income for McDonald's in Japan was substantially up during that same period. I guess it's that whole, improving efficiency profit maximization thing.

http://search.japantimes.co.jp/cgi-bin/nb20110923n1.html