Those 100 yen shops, symbols of collapsing prices, are popular with foreign tourists visiting Japan.
The shops are so popular that some operators have opened franchise stores abroad.
About 40 percent of the customers visiting the Narita store of Daiso Industries Ltd., the largest 100 yen shop operator, are foreign tourists or flight crew members of foreign airline companies.
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