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What makes the Tuna Mayonnaise Spam Musubi so popular with Japanese convenience store customers?
The Family Mart of the future plans to use plenty of electronic advertising to assault your senses.
Unwrapping a convenience store rice ball turns out to be one of the biggest challenges at the Olympics.
Feel-good story about a Japanese convenience store becomes one of the most unexpected surprises at the Olympics.
It looks like a breakfast at a fancy ryokan inn, but all this food came from a humble 7-Eleven and cost about 10 bucks.
These kicks pay homage to everything from the humble convenience store through to Netflix and even the old-school iMac G3.
Our reporter visits several Family Mart branches in her quest to unravel the mystery and comes to an important realization in the end.
Academy award winning animator and a Ghibli artist who works at Lawson part-time join forces to pay homage to the konbini.
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