Food & Drink Feb 20, 2021
White Smoke: Upping the game for Japanese barbecue
by Jeremy Wilgus
Opportunity, preparedness and luck took entrepreneur Craig White from a single restaurant in Tokyo to a growing barbecue empire in Japan.
Business / Corporate | ANALYSIS Jul 31, 2018
Walmart may be on the cusp of making its final checkout from the Japanese retail market
by Cory Baird
With speculation rife that Walmart Inc. is seeking to offload Seiyu, its Japanese subsidiary, the U.S. retail behemoth's possible failure may be interpreted as the result of this country's ultracompetitive retail market. After all, other global supermarket operators, such as Britain's Tesco PLC and France's ...
Business / Corporate Dec 25, 2015
FTC warns Costco Japan, Baron Park for engaging in gasoline price war
The nation's antimonopoly watchdog has issued a warning to two gasoline retailers, including the Japanese unit of U.S. retailer Costco Wholesale Corp., over a price war that it said could have threatened the activities of competitors. Costco Wholesale Japan Ltd. and Japanese oil products retailer ...