Saturday, July 24, 2010

A Vanishing Part of Japan


Retailing has changed drastically in Japan since we arrived. Big box stores, particularly big box drug stores, have all but made extinct the little corner drug stores that used to be everywhere in Japan. The few that survive do so through personal connections, I suspect. Here's an interview with one remaining store owner. A little slice of life in Japan:
Thursday, July 22, 2010


Pharmacist Masaaki Goto | The Japan Times Online

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