Nokia is in the verge of cutting down 220 jobs in Japan in order to support its research and development expenses. Nokia says “As part of its global efforts to align its research and development (R&D) operations to be in line with its focused portfolio of future products, Nokia will be reducing its R&D activities in Japan.”

It added that despite the planned reductions, it would continue to have “significant sourcing activities in Japan” and said that Vertu, its luxury line of handcrafted mobile phones, would “also continue operations in Japan unaffected by today’s announcement.”