Most of the original growth was centered in the Japanese suburbs with roadside stores ... cheap clothing. If Uniqlo's rapid growth continues, its ambitious plans to be the leader of retail ...

Now Roland Corp. has opened its first directly managed store in Japan in the trendsetting Harajuku ... The area is famed for its fashion stores, variety shops and idiosyncratic cafes.

As K-pop and anime continue to permeate American culture, yet another low-cost Japanese retail store is opening a San ... in Dallas and Houston. It sells fashion, food, stationary and makeup ...

Noriko Saiki, a senior manager at the Japan Research Institute ... remaking its own products, the shop-in-a-shop studio fixes tears, adds embroidery to old clothing and provides other alteration ...