In recent years, a quiet but noticeable shift has taken place in the way people travel. Instead of limiting themselves to museums, landmarks and restaurant reservations, many travellers are ...

Convenience store culture is pretty big in Tokyo. The konbini is an easy place to grab a quick meal, snack or drink, but it’s more than just a corner store. First-time visitors to our city are always ...

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 ...

Sungchul Shim, a chef who’d helped on the menu, confirmed the news, telling us on Tuesday that Konbini was kaput and that the team had “decided to change the whole concept” at the last possible moment ...

The new Famima Park Azabudai convenience store is just steps from Azabudai Hills ...

Like the thousands of other journalists arriving in Japan to cover the Olympics, Canadian Devin Heroux anticipated that sports was going to be the only story in town. Heroux has indeed covered the ...

A Spanish director is bringing a distinctly Japanese story to the screen with "Konbini," a humanistic drama about an elderly man who deliberately shoplifts to get arrested and the convenience store ...