Hand arranging onigiri on display in a Japanese konbini - Buddhika Weerasinghe/Getty Images If you've spent time on social media, you may have stumbled across a shopping haul from a Japanese ...

TOKYO — Japan’s second largest convenience store chain, in a bid for more of the country’s tourist trade, recently asked its employees to wear badges indicating the languages they speak. More than 3.1 ...

Your neighborhood convenience store may be getting a lot more convenient soon thanks to an injection of Japanese retail culture and maybe some rice balls, too. In Japan, convenience stores are called ...

AT YOUR CONVENIENCE: Nigo keeps putting his fingers in new pies — or shall we say steamed buns and soufflé pudding? The Japanese designer behind Human Made and the creative director of Kenzo has ...

TOKYO (AP) — The parent company of the Japanese 7-Eleven convenience store chain said Friday that it’s turning down a takeover offer from Alimentation Couche-Tard Inc. of Canada. In a letter made ...

It plans to expand the number of disaster relief stores to 100 across the country by fiscal 2030. Read more at straitstimes.com. Read more at straitstimes.com.

You always hear how great Japanese convenience stores, known as konbini, can be, but it doesn’t prepare you for realizing exactly how great a 7-Eleven, Family Mart, or even Lawson’s can be when you ...

TOKYO -- Seven-Eleven Japan Co. has been conducting an "omotenashi (hospitality) training" program for foreign employees ...

A Japanese convenience store chain has suspended sales of all deli items at about 1,600 stores after discovering expiry dates were falsified on in-house prepared foods. Workers at 23 Ministop stores ...