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A Muji store at Kansai International Airport in Osaka
BUSINESS / Companies
Jan 11, 2025
Owner of Muji stores looks to build clean power plants
Ryohin Keikaku will look to build clean power plants in an effort to meet its emissions targets.
A guest room at the Muji Hotel Ginza. Ryohin Keikaku, the brand’s parent company, now has a new business called Muji Stay, which brings under one umbrella the retailer’s existing hotels, homes and camps.
BUSINESS / Companies
Apr 12, 2024
Japan’s Muji bets minimalist retail will work for homes and hotels
Muji currently has three hotels — one in Ginza, one in Beijing and one in Shenzhen, with rooms often booked out months in advance
Japan Times
BUSINESS / Companies
Oct 28, 2022
Muji opens new shops in Japan with items for less than $4
The new shops are being built near or inside train stations in the suburbs of Tokyo and Osaka by Ryohin Keikaku, the brand's parent company.
Japan Times
BUSINESS / Economy
Oct 27, 2022
Camping gear in high demand among youths in Japan
Behind the robust sales is the growing popularity among youths of solo camping trips to avoid close-contact settings amid the coronavirus pandemic.
Japan Times
BUSINESS / Companies
Mar 26, 2021
Muji operator shares tumble as brand seen at risk of China boycott
Shares in Uniqlo operator Fast Retailing also fell in morning trading before recovering.
Japan Times
LIFE / Lifestyle / Longform
Jan 9, 2021
Insects: The future of food?
A thriving industry looks promising if consumer aversion can be overcome.
Japan Times
BUSINESS / Companies
Jul 10, 2020
Muji U.S.A. files for bankruptcy, citing pandemic shutdowns
Muji's U.S. unit joins more than 110 companies that have declared bankruptcy in the U.S. this year and blamed the coronavirus crisis in part for their demise.
Japan Times
BUSINESS / Companies
Feb 8, 2020
Half of Uniqlo, Muji stores closing in virus-hit China
Retailers are expanding outlet suspensions in China amid the unfolding coronavirus crisis, with about half of the Uniqlo apparel and Muji household goods stores there being shut.
Japan Times
CULTURE / Art
Aug 20, 2019
Minimalism: Not as straightforward as it seems
It's 100 years since the Bauhaus art and design school first opened in Weimar, Germany, and the new Muji flagship store in Ginza is as good a venue as any to hold an anniversary exhibition celebrating the values of simple, affordable modernist design.
Japan Times
BUSINESS / Companies
Jul 17, 2019
First on-campus Muji store to open at university in Tokyo
The first on-campus Muji store will open on Thursday at the Musashino Art University in Tokyo, featuring a selection of the brand's regular daily merchandise, a cafe and a workshop.
Japan Times
BUSINESS
Oct 3, 2018
Eyeing Brexit cliff edge, Japan waves goodbye to U.K. as 'gateway to Europe'
After a February meeting between U.K. Prime Minister Theresa May and 19 Japanese business chiefs, Tokyo's ambassador to Britain warned what might happen if Brexit took an unfavorable turn for foreign investors.
Japan Times
BUSINESS / Companies
Sep 5, 2018
As Brexit looms, Muji eyes Germany for new European base
The retailer of Muji products is considering moving its European headquarters out of the U.K. because of Brexit, in what would be at least the second such shift by a Japanese company.
Japan Times
BUSINESS
May 24, 2018
China fines Muji for packaging that lists Taiwan as a country
Retailer Muji has been fined 200,000 yuan ($31,300) in Shanghai for using packaging that lists Taiwan as a country, underscoring China's growing sensitivity to how companies refer to the self-ruled island.
Japan Times
LIFE / Style & Design
Jan 28, 2018
Eat, sleep and shop at Muji Hotel
It all feels faintly familiar. There are the neutral textiles, the pale wood furniture, the green plants, the clean-lined gadgets and an aesthetic that is as calming as it is minimal.
Japan Times
CULTURE / Books
Dec 16, 2017
Paul Roquet's 'Ambient Media' analyzes the importance of experiential atmosphere in society
University of Minnesota Press"Reading the air" (judging the atmosphere of a situation) is considered a crucial social skill in Japan. Paul Roquet's dense work on ambient media invites the reader to analyze the air of the modern city and its media in a new way.
Japan scrambles jets as Russian bombers fly over high seas
Tupolev Tu-95MS strategic bombers perform a flypast during the victory day parade in Moscow in June 2020.
Slope built to reach man trapped in sinkhole in Saitama
A slope (left) is built at the intersection of a sunken road in Yashio City, Saitama Prefecture on Saturday.
Japan to ease foreign worker rules for hotel restaurants
The Japanese government is considering allowing foreign workers under its specified skilled worker program to take orders and serve and cook food at restaurants within inns and hotels.
Trump's Pentagon says it will 'rotate' out some media from offices
More than two dozen news organizations operate out of the Pentagon reporting on the daily activities of the U.S. military.
Residents near Japan sinkhole urged to evacuate
Rescuers on Thursday continue to try and free a truck driver after his vehicle plunged into a sinkhole in Yashio, Saitama Prefecture, earlier in the week.
Home away from home: My first time at a Tet festival in Japan
Billed as a “cultural bridge that connects Japan and Vietnam,” Tet Viet Saitama drew tens of thousands of attendees from across the Kanto region.
First official survey set to change backcountry Hokkaido skiing
The first official government survey of Hokkaido backcountry skiing could spell changes for trails in the northern prefecture.
Fuji TV’s go-big PR strategy wins grudging praise globally
Fuji TV executives take questions during a news conference on Monday in Tokyo in which some participants became unruly.
Two decades of unparalleled access into the world of Hayao Miyazaki
Documentary director Kaku Arakawa’s filming style — naturalistic, intimate and unobtrusive — proved essential to portraying anime powerhouse Hayao Miyazaki as a man as flawed and human as he is a visionary artist in “Hayao Miyazaki and the Heron.”
For two weeks only, cold-water yellowtail can give you chills
Yellowtail caught during the coldest period of the year is delicious enough — but paired with a classic method of marinade and pan-searing, it's divine.

Podcast

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

Longform

Eme-Ima Kitchen is one of over 10,000 kodomo shokudō in Japan. A term first used in 2012 to describe makeshift eateries offering free or cheap meals to disadvantaged kids, it now refers to a diverse range of individuals, groups and organizations working to provide not only food but a sense of belonging to both children and adults.
Japan’s ‘children’s cafeterias’ are booming — but is that a good thing?
By Alex K.T. Martin

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