The Japanese language’s lack of a definite article was definitely the cause of this cross-cultural convenience store misunderstanding.
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This “unsinkable convenience store” has become a source of inspiration for exam-takers all over and business couldn’t be better as a result.
While the widespread presence of public toilets in convenience stores is great, it is also fraught with ambiguous customs and could, technically, even lead to criminal charges.
This premium ice cream is designed to look like the vegetable from which it’s made, but that’s just one of its many attractive qualities.
Create your own personalised postcards for as little as 18 cents each at 7-Eleven convenience stores in Japan.
Kumamoto Prefecture is still reeling after back-to-back large scale earthquakes struck the region late last week. Yet somehow Japan’s major convenience store chains have managed to get 97 percent of their shops up and running in a matter of days.
Organizations don’t want bare-all periodicals to have to hide under obscuring plastic covers.
The characters from the dead-serious magical girl franchise show off their bunny ears, flowery dresses, and egg-shaped soul gems.
Ehomaki “lucky sushi rolls” are a big part of Setsubun—the changing of the seasons festival. So big, in fact, that some convenience stores appear to be losing their minds in an effort to sell more rolls than the competition.
Anyone who’s been to Japan knows that the convenience store is the prefect place to get snacks, pay your bills, buy adult material, and get into a fight. Wait, what?
When you work in a customer-facing role, you can expect to deal with some difficult people from time to time. Being hospitalized by one of them, however, should never be a concern…
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