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Newspick's Yuzuha Oka and The Japan Times' Chris Russell, Joel Tansey and Oscar Boyd discuss all things convenience store.
Special theme music by composer Ben Wong, follow him on Soundcloud.
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Special theme music by composer Ben Wong, follow him on Soundcloud.
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With everyone spending more time indoors than ever before, we've just made all of The Japan Times' delicious, seasonal recipes free to read to. Find them all at jtimes.jp/kitchen.
Read more:
- The lessons you can learn from a convenience store side job (Megha Wadhwa, The Japan Times)
- Foreign-born clerks are becoming a familiar sight at convenience stores nationwide, but is Japan ready to welcome them? (Andrew McKirdy, The Japan Times)
- Vegan Store: Japan's first vegan convenience store (Jane Kitagawa, The Japan Times)
- 2010s: The decade Japanese food took over the world (Patrick St. Michel The Japan Times)
- Konbini Watch (Patrick St. Michel, The Japan Times)
- Japan's convenience store owners face tough choices in pandemic (The Japan Times)
- Lawson shows off experimental automated convenience store (The Japan Times)
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