Combining a huge cinema complex, a membership wholesale warehouse and a number of specialty shops and restaurants, an American-style megamall -- the largest in Japan -- will open Friday in a suburb of Fukuoka.
With 10 big stores and some 130 specialty shops, Torius Mega Mall offers "any product you can imagine, from food to pets to auto parts to sports," said Seth Sulkin, president of Pacifica Corp. of Washington.
Torius Mega Mall, designed by Japan's independent developer Torious Inc., is built on green, hilly farmland in Hisayama, with free parking space for 4,500 cars, Sulkin said in Tokyo Thursday.