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Japan sleeps less than almost anyone in the OECD and has built a ¥400 billion industry around sleeping better. Here's what that…
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Japan's 5.5 million vending machines are evolving from beverage dispensers into a sophisticated retail, data, and healthcare channel. Here's what international brands…
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Japan's premium bakeries are not selling bread — they are selling myths. This issue dissects the luxury shokupan boom and crash, the…
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In Japan, pet dogs and cats now outnumber children under 15. One housing major saw it coming twenty years ago: Asahi Kasei…
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Japan's nori industry is being squeezed by collapsing harvests and fading traditional demand — so its biggest seaweed makers moved a 1,000-year-old…
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Japan's postpartum recovery market grew roughly 28% in 2025 to about 74 billion yen — roughly $480 million — with food and…
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While American giants like JPMorgan, Amazon, and Dell order hundreds of thousands of employees back five days a week and fight the…
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A new supermarket chain from Don Quijote's parent PPIH lets customers return food even after taking a bite. While US retailers battle…
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Japan's anime industry quietly stopped treating 'overseas' as one market. With foreign revenue hitting JPY 2.17 trillion in 2024 — growing 26%…
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