KDDI operates around 2,000 shops across Japan, whereas Lawson has 14,600 outlets ... “But the company has little experience in the retail business. So, what synergy it can create as a ...

Japan has a lot of convenience stores, but in general, there are some similarities you can count on regardless of which one ...

TOKYO -- Major Japanese convenience store operator Lawson Inc., telecommunications giant KDDI Corp. and Lawson's parent company Mitsubishi Corp. declared at a press conference in Tokyo on Sept.

TOKYO -- Lawson is the most popular convenience store among visitors to Japan from Taiwan and Hong Kong, according to a recent survey. The results of the poll conducted by Tokyo-based Geelee Media ...

A woman in Japan has been arrested for allegedly squashing ... Police said the owner of the Lawson convenience store had claimed he had seen the woman squashing buns several times in the past.

Lawson, which operates about 14,600 convenience stores nationwide, is competing fiercely with industry leader Seven-Eleven Japan Co. and second place FamilyMart Co. But the number of outlets is ...