Yamamoto, then 24, opened his store in Tokyo’s Toyosu district in May 1974 after renovating his family’s liquor shop. His was a franchisee of what is now Seven-Eleven Japan Co., the country ...

The eighth edition of Designart Tokyo took place across the Japanese capital with nearly 120 exhibitions presenting furniture, lighting and accessories as well as art projects, interiors, technology ...

An art show melding Japanese traditional crafts with the beloved characters of the Pokémon franchise has made its way to Tokyo at last. See the monsters as never before at this show, held at ...

“I’m holding an illustrated book of cheeses,” says a delighted Tomoyo Ozumi, a customer at a growing kind of bookshop in Japan where ... who opened one such store in Tokyo’s bookstore ...

Exciting news for shoppers – fast fashion retailer Uniqlo is opening a brand new global flagship store in Shinjuku on Friday ...

(Mainichi/Kenji Yoneda) TOKYO -- The manager of a Uniqlo clothing store in the Japanese capital has been arrested on suspicion of secretly filming female customers in fitting rooms at the store ...

Fast Retailing Co on Wednesday unveiled its fourth global flagship store for the Uniqlo clothing brand in Japan, returning to a major Tokyo shopping district where it had closed an outlet in 2022, ...

TOKYO - "I'm holding an illustrated ... in Instagram or Facebook," said Kashiwa Sato, 59, the store's creative director. A quarter of Japan's municipalities have no physical bookstores, with ...

For now his store Honmaru -- meaning the core of a Japanese castle -- is only in Tokyo, but Imamura hopes to expand to other regions hit hard by bookstore closures. A quarter of Japan's ...

Have a wonderful weekend by feasting on regional ramen, watching a pro-wrestling match and attending a cosplay Halloween ...

The Tokyo-based convenience store chain hopes the emotional appeal will tug on customers’ heartstrings and encourage them to purchase items nearing their expiration dates. The trial will ...

I’m a correspondent covering Japan. Here are five mostly Japan-related items I’ve loved seeing, reading and listening to.