TOKYO — When Hikarie, Tokyo’s new must-visit shopping destination, opened in April, it was already old news on Mapion’s map application. An elite team at the company, which is based here, had marked the glass tower a year earlier, keeping the service a step ahead in this fast-changing city. Mapion is one of Japan’s homegrown companies that is benefiting from Apple’s maps debacle, which has left lo
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