Nokia, the world's biggest mobile phone maker, said on Tuesday it will cut around 220 jobs in Japan as part of its plans to streamline its vast research and development operations. The Finnish company said in a statement in Helsinki that as part of its global efforts to align its research and development operations to be in line with its focused portfolio of future products, Nokia will be reducing its R&D activities in Japan. Last week Nokia announced that about 330 employees at its research and development units in Denmark and Finland would be made redundant. The company employs about 17,000 people in research and development worldwide.