Japanese fashion brand and retailer Satisfaction Guaranteed has launched the sale of "kawaii," or cute, merchandise usually associated with Japan, through high-tech digital vending machines in Singapore.

"Singapore will . . . be the first country outside of Japan to have this intelligent digital vending machine," the company said Friday at an event to introduce its new retail platform in the affluent city-state.

"These state-of-the-art digital vending machines . . . will pair technology with an exclusive range of quality Japanese products to bring a fresh shopping experience," it said in a statement.