TOKYO -- Highly motivated international students in Japan have become indispensable as workers at convenience stores, but the ...

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 ...

Have you ever been saved by a convenience store restroom while out and about? Many people in Japan tend to consider them to ...

Competition in the fiercely contested convenience store sweets market is set to intensify, with Seven-Eleven Japan Co.

Your neighborhood convenience store may be getting a lot more convenient soon thanks to an injection of Japanese retail culture and maybe some rice balls, too. In Japan, convenience stores are called ...