Reporting and analysis on retail, e-commerce, and consumer trends in Japan, updated continuously by our newsroom.
AirAsia Japan Co Ltd, which recently reorganised its shareholding structure, has received the air operator’s certificate from the Ministry of Land, Infrastructure, Transport and Tourism. AirAsia said in a statement that AirAsia Japan was scheduled to begin…
JCB Co., Ltd. (“JCB”), the only international payment brand based in Japan, will be conducting a trial of payment using palm vein authentication in corporation with Fujitsu Limited and Fujitsu Frontech Limited. The trial will be held at the JCB World…
Japanese retail company Fast Retailing has launched HELP, a global initiative to help clothe refugees. The project – dubbed 10 Million Ways to HELP will be run in conjunction with the UNHCR. Collection starts at Uniqlo and GU on October 2 at stores around…
Singapore’s Croesus Retail Trust has bought Torius Property in Fukuoka Prefecture, Japan, for JPY 7,997 million (S$95.2 million). Torius, comprising 36 separate retail buildings, will be Croesus Singapore’s eighth Japanese property and marks its first foray…
Tokyo-headquartered Owndays will open its first stores in Thailand and Cambodia in October. The retailer, which produces and sells fashionable and trendy eyewear, already operates 130 shops in Japan, Singapore, Taiwan and China. It plans to open 100 new…
Indonesia will promote its world-class diving sites to Japanese tourists during a tourism promotion event entitled “Diving Sales Mission”, to be held in Japan on October 8 and 9, 2015. The promotion is to be held following a successful similar event, carried…
Fast Retailing Co. Chairman Tadashi Yanai said Walt Disney Co.’s new park in Shanghai will help his Uniqlo casual clothing brand expand in China, shrugging off concerns over an economic slowdown in the Japanese retailer’s largest overseas market. “The opening…
Japan’s Seven & I Holdings says it will open a giant online store in November, offering products sourced from across its retail store brands. By February 2019, Seven & I anticipates a range of 6 million SKUs will be available on the new store, including goods…
Apple Inc. said Monday that its latest smartphones, the iPhone 6s and iPhone 6s Plus, will be available at the technology giant’s retail stores at 8 a.m. local time on Friday, September 25. The company also noted that more than 50 percent of existing devices…
Japanese retail giant Seven & I plans to close 40 of its Ito-Yokado branded supermarkets and general merchandise stores by 2020. Japan’s Nikkei reports that Seven & I, which is the parent of the 7-Eleven retail brand, expects the closures will boost profits.…
Japanese luxury fashion designer Issey Miyake has opened its first store in Hong Kong. The Issey Miyake Hong Kong boutique is located on level 1 of the Ocean Centre at Harbour City on Canton Rd in Tsim Sha Tsui. Womenswear, menswear accessories, shoes – and,…
Legendary Japanese tearoom Nakamura Tokichi unveils its first season of autumn-winter delicacies on October 1 at their first overseas branch in Hong Kong. Since the successful launched in May, this historic Kyoto tearoom brand has become an overnight success…
Instagram has rocketed past the 400-million-user mark, with more than 80 million pictures shared daily at the Facebook-owned service. The number of people sharing pictures and videos each month using Instagram soared from 300 million at the start of this year…
Japanese consumer electronics retailer Nojima is about to commence its store rollout program in Vietnam, following its acquisition of an additional 21 per cent of local chain Tran Anh Digital Worldlast June. The first of the new stores will carry both…
Japanese retailer Lawson has installed 1000 ATMs in a new network to help Chinese tourists access their cash via UnionPay cards. And from September 24, customers will be able to pay for purchases using UnionPay credit cards at all Lawson stores in Japan –…
Last year, Japan’s exports of food and farm products reached 610.7 billion yen. Koichi Takano, director of the agriculture, forestry, fisheries and food division at the Japan External Trade Organisation (Jetro), said Thailand was a high-potential market…
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