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SEIYU

Ryota Ishibashi, president of a subsidiary of Trial (far left), in a joint news conference with Seiyu
BUSINESS / Companies
Mar 6, 2025
Discount store operator Trial to acquire Seiyu
Trial currently plans to retain Seiyu¡¯s company name and staff.
BUSINESS / Companies
Nov 16, 2020
Walmart to sell 85% stake in Seiyu to Rakuten and KKR
The deal is meant to shore up Seiyu¡¯s digital operations with the aid of its new owners as demand for online retail grows in Japan.
Japan Times
BUSINESS / Companies
Mar 18, 2019
New Seiyu CEO says Walmart not looking to sell its Japanese supermarket chain
¡°I¡¯m not here to sell a business,¡± Lionel Desclee tells reporters in Tokyo in his first public remarks since his appointment Friday. ¡°Absolutely not at all.¡±
Japan Times
JAPAN / Media / BIG IN JAPAN
Sep 22, 2018
Will Don Quijote tilt its lance at the Amazon giant?
A somewhat cynical commentary attributed to the late American TV comedian Jackie Gleason goes, ¡°Anybody who says money can¡¯t buy happiness doesn¡¯t know where to shop.¡±
Japan Times
BUSINESS / FOCUS
Aug 15, 2018
Â鶹´«Ã½ Don Quijote joins retail¡¯s top ranks with rule-breaking approach
Discount retailer Don Quijote has become a role model for other chain stores, defying Â鶹´«Ã½ weak retail environment to report its 29th year of unbroken sales and profit growth.
Japan Times
BUSINESS / Companies / ANALYSIS
Jul 31, 2018
Walmart may be on the cusp of making its final checkout from the Japanese retail market
With speculation rife that Walmart Inc. is seeking to offload Seiyu, its Japanese subsidiary, the U.S. retail behemoth¡¯s possible failure may be interpreted as the result of this country¡¯s ultracompetitive retail market.
Japan Times
BUSINESS / Companies
Jul 13, 2018
Walmart downplays reports that it is looking to sell Japanese unit Seiyu
Despite an unsuccessful bid to replicate its success in the U.S., the retail giant denies reports it is looking for a buyer for the Japanese chain.
Japan Times
JAPAN / Media / Japan Pulse
Aug 27, 2012
Today¡¯s J-blip: Seiyu social TV commercial
Seiyu lets the Internet call the shots for its next TV commercial.
CULTURE / Japan Pulse
Nov 11, 2011
Cult of the voice actor continues to grow
The voice actors behind well-loved anime are stars in the their own right.
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.

Podcast

One of the many entrances to the Kabukicho neighborhood in Tokyo¡¯s Shinjuku Ward.
Kabukicho: Tokyo¡¯s ¡®stadium of desire¡¯

Longform

Disaster relief workers Taichi Kato (left) and Seiji Yoshimura enter the collapsed living quarters at Kyuganji temple in Yatsushiro, Kumamoto Prefecture.
What Kumamoto revealed about Â鶹´«Ã½ earthquake readiness
By Alex K.T. Martin

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