To ease the burden on delivery firms by reducing unnecessary redeliveries, the environment and transport ministries plan to expand their budgets substantially to encourage the installation of parcel lockers in suburbs and rural areas, informed sources said. For fiscal 2018 starting next April, the ministries ...
Like all North Korean adults, Song Un Pyol wears the faces of leader Kim Jong Un's father and grandfather pinned neatly to her left lapel, above her heart. But on her right glitters a diamond-and-gold brooch. Song, who manages a state-run supermarket with freezers stocked ...
They're still coming in droves — but no longer buying in spades. After propping up sales for overseas retailers over the past decade with a shopping-driven tourism agenda, Chinese visitors are no longer returning home with suitcases bulging like before. A new survey by consultancy Oliver ...
Selling everyday items to bargain hunters has made the founder of Japan's biggest discount store a billionaire. Hirotake Yano, founder and president of closely held Daiso Sangyo Corp., the self-described "Japanese shopping wonderland," was one of the country's first vendors to adopt a single-price model ...
Purchases by foreign visitors at department stores in May jumped 42.8 percent from a year earlier to ¥19.3 billion, led by robust demand for cosmetics, an industry group said Tuesday. Sales to foreign tourists per capita are also on an upward trend, partly due to ...
"Does this lasagne set already have mince meat in it? I can't tell from the packaging."
The Diet on Friday revised the Civil Code to clarify the terms of contracts between businesses and consumers for online shopping, life insurance and other transactions. The revision sets forth criteria for when the terms of contract can be nullified. For example, terms deemed one-sidedly disadvantageous ...
A new 13-story upscale mall has opened in Ginza, Tokyo’s answer to the Champs-Elysees or Fifth Avenue, and it's proving that Japan is still a whale in the luxury business.
A new shopping complex opened Thursday at the former site of the Matsuzakaya department store in Tokyo's Ginza district featuring high-end boutiques and a traditional performing art theater targeting both foreign tourists and domestic customers. The 13-story Ginza Six complex hosts a total of 241 ...
Easter is one of the few major calendar events in the West that goes largely unnoticed here — until now, anyway.
Robert Kodama asked passers-by in Japan's mercantile capital about two traits often mentioned in the same breath as "Japanese people."
