HIGASHI-OSAKA – Across Japan, it can seem as if there is a 7-Eleven on every corner.
Now, on a single corner in a working-class suburb of Osaka, there are two.
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Mitoshi Matsumoto poses between his 7-Eleven store (right0 and the company’s temporary shop in Osaka. Matsumoto, a franchisee, ran one of the two 7-Elevens until the chain revoked his contract in 2019 after he dared to shorten his operating hours. | HIROKO MASUIKE / THE NEW YORK TIMES
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