Most of its clothing is mass produced in every color a shopper might want. Some people have called the chain "Japan's answer to Gap." Uniqlo opened its largest store in Shanghai last year.

Department store sales in Japan in 2024 totaled 5.75 trillion yen ($37 billion), surpassing the pre-coronavirus pandemic levels of 2019 amid inbound tourism boom, data by an industry body showed ...

The Japanese giant employs some 157,000 people worldwide across a business that spans clothing stores ... far above the 3.5% of 7-Eleven stores outside of Japan. Of 7-Eleven’s 85,000 stores ...

As the accompanying notes put it, Goldwin 0 is a ‘project’, a ‘pursuit’, an ‘experimental platform’ – enigmatic descriptors for the conceptual offshoot of cult 1950-founded Japanese clothing label ...

Discarded used Levi’s 501 jeans have been transformed into fashion ... shop in Fukuoka, and elsewhere under the title of “Denim de Mirai: Denim Project.” Unwanted used jeans stored outside ...