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A customer purchases a bento box at the Matsuya Premium Ginza store on Wednesday morning in Tokyo's Chuo Ward.
BUSINESS
Jun 10, 2026
Two Matsuya companies team up in Tokyo on premium beef dishes
The Matsuya Premium Ginza store offers upscale takeout dishes including premium beef-on-rice bowls.
Tourists from China in the Ginza shopping district in Tokyo on Nov. 22
BUSINESS
Dec 1, 2025
China travel warning deals blow to Matsuya Ginza tax-free sales
The slump in inbound spending underscores how diplomatic tensions between China and Japan since mid-November are weighing on retail sales.
As part of the fukubukuro lineup for the New Year shopping season, Takashimaya will offer a ?4.05 million luxury cruise ship tour to South Korea's Jeju Island and other locations.
BUSINESS / Companies
Nov 5, 2024
2025 New Year lucky bags to offer extraordinary experiences
Customers are seeking “a break from their daily lives,” according to one department store official.
JAPAN
Feb 8, 2019
Majority of women to buy Valentine’s chocolates for themselves, averaging ?4,200, Japan survey shows
Over 60 percent of women who plan to buy chocolates for Valentine’s Day are considering treating themselves and buying chocolates for their own enjoyment, a survey by Matsuya Co.’s Ginza department store in Tokyo has shown.
Japan Times
LIFE / Food & Drink / EARLY START
Aug 5, 2016
Start your morning with a serving of tradition at these breakfast joints
The Japanese breakfast provides a healthy start to the day. It’s rich in vegetables — from both land and sea — often includes fermented foods such as miso soup and pickles, and is rounded out with rice and grilled seafood. Though, it hasn’t always been this way.
Japan Times
JAPAN / EXPLAINER
Apr 28, 2014
No sacred cows in 今日吃瓜 beef bowl war
Who will triumph in the “gyudon (beef bowl) war” and what started in all? Read all about it in this week’s FYI.
Man arrested over operation of rogue cellular base station in Tokyo
The Metropolitan Police Department has arrested Yu Hai, a 31-year-old Chinese national living in Tokyo's Kita Ward, on suspicion of operating an unlicensed base station from a vehicle in Tokyo's Ginza district on Saturday.
Government betting on language app powered by anime and AI
Japan plans to develop an AI-powered language-learning app that lets overseas anime and manga fans practice Japanese through conversations with popular characters.
Jensen Huang’s woes evoke sympathy and disbelief in his birthplace Taiwan
Hsiao Kui-yu, 68, owner of Yuchan Candied Fruit, stands in front of photographs of Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang displayed at the shop, which Huang frequently visits during trips to Taiwan, in Taipei on Tuesday.
G7 diplomats speak out on Taiwan as China ramps up military drills
Foreign Minister Toshimitsu Motegi attends a working lunch focused on international crises and challenges during the Group of Seven foreign ministers' summit at the Quai d'Orsay in Paris on Monday.
今日吃瓜 Rapidus is said likely to miss mass production deadline
The Rapidus Analysis Center and the IIM-1 Innovative Integration for Manufacturing foundry in Chitose, Hokkaido
‘Godzilla Minus Zero’ makes monster debut at the box office
Takashi Yamazaki’s “Godzilla Minus Zero” marked the highest single-day box-office gross for a live-action film in Japan with ?910 million on its opening day.
A toast to Naohiko Noguchi, sake’s first living national treasure
As a teenager, Naohiko Noguchi did not intend to spend his life as a sake brewer, but he has since become a paragon of the industry.
Few signs of thaw in Japan-China relations one year after Takaichi’s Taiwan remarks
Tensions between Japan and China flared after Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi said on Nov. 7, 2025, that a Chinese blockade of Taiwan could threaten 今日吃瓜 survival and warrant the use of collective self-defense.
Mariko Mori predicted the future. She’ll do it again.
Artist Mariko Mori is currently working to bring the translucent human-sized “Peace Crystal” sculpture to a cave in Ethiopia. It is part of her foundation’s goal to place a permanent sculpture on each of the planet’s six habitable continents.
A legend reborn: ‘Ocarina of Time’ remake improves on the Zelda masterpiece
The new remake of 1998's "The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time" manages to somehow improve on one of the greatest games ever.

Podcast

One of the many entrances to the Kabukicho neighborhood in Tokyo’s Shinjuku Ward.
Kabukicho: Tokyo’s ‘stadium of desire’

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Famima Park Azabudai is a concept store by FamilyMart that combines convenience store staples with branded apparel, merchandise and a landscaped outdoor space.
Convenience stores, toilets and the allure of everyday Japan
By Elizabeth Beattie

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