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Retail Asia14/09/2017
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Milanese concept store 10 Corso Como is returning to Japan tomorrow, with two outlets. The two new retail outlets, 30 sqm each, will be located inside Seibu Ikebukuro and Seibu Shibuya department stores, and will each display 10 Corso Como-branded products. 10 Corso Como also opens two pop-up stores this month at Seibu Shibuya from […]

Retail Asia04/09/2017
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Established in Tokyo in 1993, street-fashion brand A Bathing Ape has launched a global online store. Also known as Bape, the brand is known for its graphics, patterns and characters such as “Ape Head”, “Bape Camo”, “Bape Sta”, “Shark Hoodie” and “Baby Milo”. The  brand has expanded from being a men’s line to include women’s and children’s […]

Retail Asia29/08/2017
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This week, founder/designer Ronnie Fieg opened the doors to Tokyo’s very first Kith Treats located in the world-famous shopping district of Shibuya. Fieg teased the newest location on Instagram earlier this month by sharing a sketch of the shop’s exterior with caption, “Kith Treats Tokyo. See you soon.” The new space upholds the clean, monochromatic […]

Retail Asia28/08/2017
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Belstaff Japan has opened its fifth store, in Hankyu Men’s Tokyo, 18 months after the British fashion brand’s arrival in the nation. As well as the men’s AW 17 collection, the new outlet features a limited-edition leather jacket, and from next month will offer a limited-edition capsule collection in collaboration with Japanese street label Sophnet. […]

Retail Asia12/07/2017
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Bitcoin is the world’s most widely used crypto currency. Mark Karpeles, the former CEO of collapsed Bitcoin exchange MtGox, went on trial in Tokyo on charges stemming from the disappearance of hundreds of millions of dollars worth of the virtual currency from its digital vaults. Here are some key facts about the world’s most widely […]

Retail Asia05/07/2017
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Fendi is opening a pop-up store in Tokyo at Dover Street Market, as it rolls out a capsule collection that is specific to the Japanese retailer. As well as landing in Dover Street’s London and New York store, the Elephant Room pop-up in Ginza will highlight products of the “Fendi Vocabulary”, the key theme of the men’s fall/winter […]

Retail Asia22/06/2017
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Global fashion brand MCM said that it offered made-to-order designs of its most popular products for the first time at its pop-up store in Isetan department store in Tokyo. The store, located in the luxury Isetan Shinjuku department store in Tokyo, Japan, allowed customers to pick up customized items they had designed through the brand‘s […]

Retail Asia02/06/2017
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Los Angeles eyewear brand Dita has opened its latest Tokyo store this week, marking its second Japanese and global location. Located in the capital’s Minami Aoyama 5-chome, the Dita store covers 69 square metres andrepresents Dita’s latest retail concept, combining “the focus of a design showroom with the attentive service of an optical laboratory,” according to […]

Retail Asia29/05/2017
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Colt Technology Services has launched newly optimized low-latency network routes linking stock exchanges in Tokyo and the Chicago Mercantile Exchange. The enhancements aim to benefit traders in Chicago who require fast connectivity to Tokyo, or exchange venues in Tokyo that require low-latency connectivity to Chicago. Connectivity will be provided through the company’s private Ethernet-based Colt […]

Retail Asia23/05/2017
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Japan‘s exports rose in April to mark the fifth straight month of gains, an encouraging sign that more robust overseas demand could underpin a steady economic recovery. Exports rose 7.5 percent in April from a year ago, below the median estimate of 7.8 percent annual growth, finance ministry data showed on Monday. It followed a […]

Retail Asia18/05/2017
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Located in Roppongi in Tokyo’s Midtown area, the store is named after the area it is situated – Roppongi, and the year 1906, when New Balance was born. Written as ‘19: 06’, the motif is meant to look like a digital clock to express the American footwear firm’s 111-year history and how it has modernised. […]

Retail Asia09/05/2017
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Luxury footwear brand Manolo Blahnik has opened a new store in Tokyo at the new Ginza Six luxury shopping mall. Artfully designed by architect Nick Leith-Smith, and covering 60 square metres, the retail boutique’s interior design emulates that of Japanese tradition and culture, but in a modern form. The focal element is the wall installation. Reflective of timber […]

Retail Asia09/05/2017
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“Timex Tokyo” is set to open in Jingumae 6th street, near the Jingumae intersection. The store will be located on the 2nd floor of the building. The store will also feature a ‘strap bar’ for leather maintenance and engraving, and will also feature exhibition pieces. Timex was established by the Waterbury Clock Company in Connecticut […]

Retail Asia04/05/2017
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Christian Dior launched its new Tokyo store with a fashion show in the rooftop gardens of a luxury mall, where models showed new looks from its creative director Maria Grazia Chiuri. Underlining Dior’s connection with Japan, which is an “important market” for the fashion brand, Chiuri drew her inspiration from cherry blossoms and Christian Dior’s […]

Retail Asia01/04/2017
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New York City-based architecture and urban planning firm, LAGUARDA.LOW ARCHITECTS, has unveiled the design for Grandberry Center, a new 750,000-square-foot transit-oriented development in Machida, Tokyo. Set on the city’s Tokyu Denen-tonshi train line, Laguarda.Low designed Grandberry Center to be the center of commerce and activity for Machida – a city in the west section of […]

Retail Asia30/03/2017
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American-style dining has again crossed the Pacific, with the latest offering, Umami Burger Japan, having a distinct local slant. While conceived in the US, the fast-food chain takes its names from the Japanese concept of umami, one of the basic tastes as distinct from sweet, salty, bitter and sour. It follows such brands as Carl’s […]

Retail Asia24/03/2017
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A lifestyle-focussed concept store, Uniqlo Move, has been launched in Tokyo by the Japanese fashion basics retailer. It features its LifeWear range of activewear in a space on the eighth floor of Shinjuku Takashimaya department store. Sections of the 75 sqm store will be arranged according to movement, ranging from everyday life to exercise. Not […]

Retail Asia16/03/2017
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When Legoland Japan opens in Nagoya next month, its restaurants and stalls will offer a range of themed food items. Its “potato bricks” have the same shape as the toy building blocks, iced treats are served in giant Lego blocks, and children can make their own multi-coloured Abominable Slush drinks in the Bricktopia zone.   […]


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