If Japanese convenience stores are a vibe, then 7-Eleven in Japan is an entire energy field. With well over 20,000 locations across the country, it is the dominant minimart in The Land of the Rising ...

Hand arranging onigiri on display in a Japanese konbini - Buddhika Weerasinghe/Getty Images If you've spent time on social media, you may have stumbled across a shopping haul from a Japanese ...

In recent years, a quiet but noticeable shift has taken place in the way people travel. Instead of limiting themselves to museums, landmarks and restaurant reservations, many travellers are ...

The unassuming convenience store is a one-stop-shop for Japanese snacks (like ramen chips), confectionary, grab-and-go meals and Hokkaido-milk soft-serve. Plus, fresh-made onigiri. When you walk into ...

When customers walk into Kawaii Konbini, a Japanese convenience store in Longmont, they aren’t greeted with a typical “hello.” Instead, the owners welcome them with a friendly “irasshai!” That’s how ...

In the stores I visited in Japan, you could buy umbrellas and underwear, stationery or sake. You could pay an electric bill, top up a metro card, make photocopies, buy tickets to events, use the ...

Describing Japanese konbini culture is not easy for Chef Katsuya Fukushima. He says that’s a good thing because it would spoil the surprise. It’s possible to eat, really well, from 7-Eleven for weeks ...

Once upon a time, convenience stores were a purely American invention. But not anymore. 7-Eleven, the world’s largest convenience store chain, has been owned by a Japanese parent company since 2005.

Dozo's Joel Poston has turned his commissary kitchen into a zero-seat restaurant with prepared sandwiches, Japanese snacks ...

Exterior of a classic Japanese 7-Eleven convenience store - Brookgardener/Shutterstock If Japanese convenience stores are a vibe, then 7-Eleven in Japan is an entire ...