Surviving an entire day in Japan using only convenience store food showcases the incredible variety, quality, and creativity ...

Former chairman of Seven & i Holdings Toshifumi Suzuki, credited for the global success of 7-Eleven convenience stores, has ...

Toshifumi Suzuki, the convenience store pioneer who built 7-Eleven into a fixture of daily life in Japan, died on May 18. He was 93. Seven & i, the Japanese operator of the 7-Elev ...

When Kenji Yamamoto opened the first convenience store in Japan 50 years ago, he didn't even know what to stock on the ...

Toshifumi Suzuki, the Japanese businessman credited with creating the 7-Eleven convenience-chain global retail empire, has ...

Toshifumi Suzuki partnered with the US operator of 7-Eleven to bring the convenience store chain to Japan in 1973 and then ...

From fresh meals and banking services to disaster relief and parcel delivery, 7-Eleven has evolved into a critical part of daily life in Japan. The first shop opened in the country in 1974. Today, the ...

South Korean makeup and skincare brands may have dethroned France as Japan’s top cosmetics importer for the first time in ...

The ‘father of the convenience store’ was the first to come up with the idea of selling onigiri at 7-Eleven outlets.

Your neighborhood convenience store may be getting a lot more convenient soon thanks to an injection of Japanese retail culture and maybe some rice balls, too. In Japan, convenience stores are called ...

Toshifumi Suzuki became president of 7-Eleven Japan in 1978 and is widely recognized for modernizing convenience retail ...

I’m stuffing my face with an onigiri before work.” Onigiri, a rice ball often filled with meat or fish, is a Japanese convenience store staple. The one Johnson’s eating has eel and a savory soy sauce, ...