THE ASAHI SHIMBUN
February 7, 2024 at 14:07 JST
Lawson Inc. President Sadanobu Takemasu is flanked by KDDI Corp. President Makoto Takahashi, right, and Mitsubishi Corp. President Katsuya Nakanishi at a news conference in Tokyo on Feb. 6. (Takeshi Suezaki)
Mobile carrier KDDI Corp. will acquire a 50-percent stake in Lawson Inc. for nearly 500 billion yen ($3.37 billion) to help the nation’s third-largest convenience store chain incorporate digital technologies and offer new services. [Read More]
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A peek through the music industry’s curtain at the producers who harnessed social media to help their idols go global.
Cooking experts, chefs and others involved in the field of food introduce their special recipes intertwined with their paths in life.
A series based on diplomatic documents declassified by Japan’s Foreign Ministry
A series about Japanese-Americans and their memories of World War II
