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Lotte Holdings President Genichi Tamatsuka (left), Lotte hotels Japan head Tomoya Fukui (center) and Hotel Lotte CEO Jung Ho-suck (right) at a press conference in Tokyo on Tuesday. The companies unveiled plans to open 20 hotels in Japan by 2034.
BUSINESS / Companies
Sep 3, 2025
Lotte¡¯s sweet deal aims to capitalize on Â鶹´«Ã½ tourism boom
Confectionery giants Lotte Holdings and Lotte Corporation plan to draw on South Korea expertise and in-house products to create more hotels in Japan.
BUSINESS
Feb 16, 2023
Hamburger chain Lotteria to be sold to Zensho
The Lotteria brand will be maintained for a certain period even after the share transfer.
Japan Times
BUSINESS / Companies
Oct 26, 2022
Lotte made its name in candy. Now it¡¯s moving into drugmaking.
The new direction comes after a number of prominent South Korean family-run businesses turned to the highly profitable $1.3 trillion global biopharma business.
Japan Times
LIFE / Style & Design / ON: DESIGN
Mar 20, 2021
Japanese designers make haste to reduce waste
With Earth Day coming up next month, ¡°On: Design¡± looks into a few initiatives that address Â鶹´«Ã½ plastic waste problem.
Japan Times
ASIA PACIFIC
Dec 16, 2020
South Korean couriers die of overwork as pandemic spurs surge in deliveries
A string of deaths among couriers this year has caused a national uproar, drawing attention to unevenly distributed worker protections.
Japan Times
BUSINESS / Companies
Jan 20, 2020
Shin Kyuk-ho, founder of Lotte business dynasty, dies at 97 in Seoul
Shin Kyuk-ho, a wartime migrant to Japan who returned home to build a little-known chewing-gum maker into the Lotte Group, South Korea¡¯s biggest retailer, has died. He was 97.
Japan Times
JAPAN / Media / BIG IN JAPAN
Mar 3, 2018
Anniversaries loom for gum producer Lotte and the Yoshiwara red-light district
In 1941, a 19-year-old Korean chemistry student named Shin Kyuk-ho traveled to Tokyo to study at a technical college. He remained in Japan following the war and, under the name Takeo Shigemitsu, founded Lotte Co. in 1948. The brand¡¯s name was inspired by Charlotte, the heroine of Johann Wolfgang von...
Japan Times
COMMENTARY / World
Dec 11, 2017
South Korea and the curse of geopolitics
THAAD dispute underlines the perils of over-reliance on China¡¯s market
Japan Times
BUSINESS
May 22, 2017
Big South Korean firms keeping low profile ahead of Moon¡¯s reform quest
A South Korean retail giant has shelved controversial expansion plans, while a large bank made hundreds of contract jobs permanent after President Moon Jae-in took office vowing to reform the family-run conglomerates that dominate the economy.
Japan Times
ASIA PACIFIC
Mar 6, 2017
South Korea¡¯s Lotte Group says four retail stores in China have been closed amid political tension
South Korea¡¯s Lotte Group said Monday four of its retail stores in China were closed after inspections by authorities, as Seoul protests at discriminating action by China after Lotte agreed to provide land for a U.S. missile defense system.
Japan Times
BUSINESS / Companies
Jun 27, 2016
Lotte chairman beats back brother¡¯s third attempt at ouster
Lotte Holdings Co. shareholders voted to leave Lotte Group Chairman Shin Dong-bin in his post of director of the holding company, Lotte Group said in a statement, rejecting a third bid by his brother to seize control of the family-run South Korean conglomerate amid a government probe into possible bribery...
CULTURE / TV & Streaming / CHANNEL SURF
Jun 10, 2016
¡®Aiba Learns¡¯; ¡®Good Fortune! Appraisal Team for Anything High Quality Treasure Salon¡¯; Lotte ¡ª So
In addition to singing and dancing, the popular male idols managed by Johnny & Associates do a lot of educational TV, including ¡°Aiba Manabu¡± (¡°Aiba Learns¡°; TV Asahi, Sun., 6 p.m.), in which Masaki Aiba, a member of boy band Arashi, learns about some common process. In the past, Aiba and his guests...
BUSINESS / Companies
Oct 13, 2015
Lotte family feud intensifies as brother vows to depose chairman
The family feud at Japanese-Korean retail giant Lotte Group has intensified as Chairman Shin Dong Bin¡¯s older brother attempts to oust him from one of the conglomerate¡¯s key companies.
Japan Times
LIFE / Food & Drink / DESSERT WATCH
Sep 4, 2015
Lotte¡¯s koala cookies come in a new limited-edition flavor
Lotte¡¯s ¡°Koara no Machi¡± (¡°Koala¡¯s March¡°) brand of cookies has added a not-so-radical new flavor to its roster: cocoa and milk.
COMMENTARY / World
Aug 10, 2015
S. Korea¡¯s economy still not ready for prime time
Seoul has made little progress prodding the industrial conglomerates that dominate its economy to embrace global business practices.
Japan Times
LIFE / Food & Drink / Japan Pulse
Feb 12, 2014
Chocolate & honey mustard: the Valentine¡¯s Day pair to avoid
Has it been a while since we did a wacky burger? Not really, but this combo was not to be missed, if only so we could warn you to definitely miss it.
Forty-five meters down, a diver races to record a fleeting moment of WWII history
Kingo Wakasa photographs the kamikaze plane wing section he discovered at the USS Emmons wreck site.
New ¡®Katsu Curry Index¡¯ aims to show how weak the yen really is
A CoCo Ichibanya curry house in Tokyo.
Mexican man arrested over attempt to smuggle some 200 lizards into Japan
Mexican alligator lizards seized by Tokyo Customs from a Mexican man who attempted to smuggle them into Japan on Saturday through Haneda Airport
Gut bacteria may be behind many of Â鶹´«Ã½ colorectal cancer cases
A Japanese research team found that a toxin produced by certain E. coli strains, colibactin, caused genetic mutations in nearly half of colorectal cancer cases studied
She is Russia¡¯s richest woman. Her business empire is going up in flames.
Tatyana Kim, the head and co-founder of Wildberries, speaks about Ukrainian drone attacks on the company's warehouses in the course of the Russia-Ukraine conflict, at an unidentified location, in this still image from a handout video released on July 31.
Forty-five meters down, a diver races to record a fleeting moment of WWII history
Kingo Wakasa photographs the kamikaze plane wing section he discovered at the USS Emmons wreck site.
Ikarigata closer to emulating older brother Fujinokawa than many think
The future Fujinokawa (third from left) and Ikarigata (right) compete against each other at ages 5 and 3, respectively.
Where do foreign residents in Japan want to die?
The Yokohama Foreign General Cemetery is one of the few cemeteries in Japan that allows burials, albeit with conditions for the deceased, including foreign nationality and permanent residency in Kanagawa Prefecture.
¡®Total whiplash¡¯: Foreign residents react to Â鶹´«Ã½ changing permanent residency rules
The entrance to the Tokyo Immigration Bureau in Minato Ward, Tokyo, in March. For some foreign residents of Japan, tightening measures for permanent residency have become one factor in a broader calculation over whether remaining in the country makes financial sense over the long term.
As Â鶹´«Ã½ concrete jungles sizzle, urban forestry offers an all-natural fix
People and birds find relief from the sun in Tokyo's Nakano Ward earlier this month. While experts agree that urban greening is crucial to mitigating the impact of climate change, trees are becoming even more scarce in Japanese cities.

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One of the many entrances to the Kabukicho neighborhood in Tokyo¡¯s Shinjuku Ward.
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Disaster relief workers Taichi Kato (left) and Seiji Yoshimura enter the collapsed living quarters at Kyuganji temple in Yatsushiro, Kumamoto Prefecture.
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