Awaji Journal: In a Graying Japan, Lower Shelves and Wider Aisles
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In a sign of JapanÂs rapidly graying society, convenience stores once associated with the young are being transformed for the elderly.
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Faced with a prison population ageing as rapidly as the rest of the country, Japan is to build new jails with disabled access, including elevators, slopes for wheelchairs and grab-bars in toilets and baths.
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This isn't South Korea or Germany. Wal-Mart goes all in, facing new challenges.
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They don't seem like much at first glance, the two boxes of yellowing letters sitting amid the shelves of aged leather-bound volumes.
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In Japan, where one fifth of the population is now over 65, a preview of a global future.
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Unlike its hipster namesake, the Tokyo neighborhood known as 'Grannie's Harajuku' is a kind of SoHo for seniors, with lessons for retailers everywhere
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TOKYO  For a country that shut out foreigners for hundreds of years, Japan has proved strangely attractive for problem migrants of late.
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NOIDA, India  - The new supermarket was slated as the shape of retail to come in globalizing India. Now shutters covered its windows, staff meandered outside and customers picked final bargains before its closure.
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Home furnishings just aren't fashionable these days.
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The company was able to ship 200,000 units throughout Japan and interestingly, the response from the consumership was phenomenal. Retailers carrying the unit opened their stores early in the morning and faced long lines outside their facilities.
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NEW YORK, June 14  /PRNewswire/ -- There's traditional retail, and then there's Space NK.
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Something odd happened on the way to global recovery. The shoppers are not turning out the way they normally do when things start to look up.
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TROUBLE IS brewing in the aisles of Scotlandâs supermarkets. Products and produce once easy to hand are either on distant shelves or have simply disappeared altogether.
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The rapidly developing economies in Asia mean fewer rice paddies.
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Japanâs once vaunted electronics industry has downsized to survive global competition, and is inadvertently setting off a brain drain.
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Japan has some of the most congested, confusing and cramped streets in the world. It also boasts some of the latest technology in zapping computerized data to millions of cars, delivering what may be the world's smartest way to drive.
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The Japanese retailer eyes acquisitions to spur U.S. growth.