Japanese convenience stores (Konbini) are distinctive from American convenience stores. The difference comes from 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 ...

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 ...

In my five years living in Japan, food was my North Star. I wrote about it, traveled for it, worked in many of Tokyo's izakayas to understand it. I ate plenty of great things, make no mistake, but did ...

In Japan, Konbini convenience stores have become part of the country's infrastructure, offering fresh meals delivered several times a day, tickets to concerts and museums, and even services like bill ...