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It has a food court, a bookstore owned by Kinokuniya, a gift shop selling Bape clothing and golf clubs, a video store that carries DVDs and Laserdiscs of movies and a store selling Japanese ceramics and denki-gama, making Mitsuwa more of a mini-mall than a traditional supermarket. It is a small taste of what current Japanese multi-story malls ...
A Lawson store in Kōtō, Tokyo A Lawson self-service station with attached convenience store in Shingū, Fukuoka, Japan. In 1974, Consolidated signed a formal agreement with The Daiei, Inc., a retail company which also ran a supermarket chain, to open the first Lawson stores in Japan. On April 15, 1975, Daiei Lawson Co., Ltd. was established ...
A sign at a park featuring Irasutoya illustrations. In addition to typical clip art topics, unusual occupations such as nosmiologists, airport bird patrollers, and foresters are depicted, as are special machines like miso soup dispensers, centrifuges, transmission electron microscopes, obscure musical instruments (didgeridoo, zampoña, cor anglais), dinosaurs and other ancient creatures such ...
Don Quijote Co., Ltd. (株式会社ドン・キホーテ, kabushiki gaisha Don Kihōte), often referred to by its shortened name Donki (ドンキ), is a Japanese discount store chain. Donki stores provide a wide range of products, from basic groceries to electronics and clothing.
The Japanese Garden is called Shofu-en—the Garden of Wind and Pines, [10] and was designed by Koichi Kawana [11] in collaboration with Kai Kwahara. [12] Descanso Gardens: La Cañada Flintridge: California: Includes a Japanese teahouse and a Japanese-style garden designed by Whitney Smith and built in 1966. Dubuque Arboretum and Botanical ...
7-Eleven’s Japanese convenience stores — aka konbini — put a focus on unique and tantalizing food — in stark contrast to the hot dogs and Slurpees of its American counterpart. New USA menu ...
Yayoi Kusama was born on 22 March 1929 in Matsumoto, Nagano. [11] Born into a family of merchants who owned a plant nursery and seed farm, [12] Kusama began drawing pictures of pumpkins in elementary school and created artwork she saw from hallucinations, works of which would later define her career. [9]
Model food dishes in a restaurant in Japan Person looking at a model menu Old food models in front of a Sushi shop in Tokyo. In Japan, shokuhin sampuru (食品サンプル), taken from the English "sample", are widespread. In the late Edo period, in the 1800s, food sellers displayed a plate of real food each day in lieu of a written menu. [1]