Department store sales in Japan in 2024 totaled 5.75 trillion yen ($37 billion), surpassing the pre-coronavirus pandemic levels of 2019 amid inbound tourism boom, data by an industry body showed ...

Traveling over our heads at hypersonic speeds beyond Mach 7, lies the future of spy plane technology. It can be anywhere in the world in one hour, enter any country unnoticed, and be out before their ...

TAKASAKI, Gunma — A daruma doll is a traditional Japanese craft known as a good luck charm called ... After worshipping at the temple, I went to Daruma no Furusato Daimon-ya, a store that has been ...

A traditional New Year's event to ward off evil has been held in the city of Wajima in central Japan for the first time in two years. The city was hit hard by the massive Noto Peninsula earthquake ...

In brief: Lawson, the Japanese convenience store chain, has come up with a novel approach to address the country's chronic labor shortage: hiring remote workers from overseas. At first glance ...

Traditional stores are ... From dusk, sidewalks, store or office verandas and car parking spaces become unorthodox open-air bazaars, offering anything from groceries to fresh meat, electronics, ...

Traditional ... sidewalks, store or office verandahs and car parking spaces burst into unorthodox open air bazaars, offering anything from groceries to fresh meat, electronics, clothes, medicines ...

Traditional stores are ... From dusk, sidewalks, store or office verandahs and car parking spaces burst into unorthodox open air bazaars, offering anything from groceries to fresh meat, electronics, ...

People in Zimbabwe are shunning traditional ... From dusk, sidewalks, store or office verandahs and car parking spaces burst into unorthodox open-air bazaars offering anything from groceries to fresh ...

HARARE, Zimbabwe (AP) — People in Zimbabwe are shunning traditional grocery stores to do their shopping at informal and illegal markets that pop up at night to avoid police raids. The government ...