Japanese food is an international hit. Besides the sushi selection, the daily local diet features plenty of sandwiches. Here ...

The Future Future team has opened Suupaa, a convenience store and restaurant hybrid. The slick space has mortadella onigiri, ...

Take a stroll through any Japanese city—you'll be hard-pressed to go a few blocks without passing a convenience store. The one-stop shops dot streetscapes everywhere. So ubiquitous are konbini ...

The multi-tasking creative has signed on as creative director of Family Mart. His imprint is to be felt starting in spring ...

Sheer frustration at the inconvenience of everyday shopping led Toshifumi Suzuki in 1973 to set up a company to operate the Seven-Eleven chain of convenience stores in Japan. That was half a ...

The staff are studying Japanese at a language school in Japan. One is a 20-year-old Nepalese and the other is a 19-year-old Vietnamese. They came to Japan from two to six months ago and started to ...