SoftBank and PayPay plan a major investment in Seven & i, aiming to strengthen AI, digital payments, and retail innovation.

SoftBank and its payments arm PayPay are in talks to invest in Seven & i, the owner of 7-Eleven, according to Bloomberg, as the retailer restructures.

Not to state the obvious, but the United States of America and Japan are two very different places. The United States might have shared a lot of its big brands and food culture with Japan, but the ...

SoftBank Corp. and PayPay Corp. are considering acquiring a stake worth several hundred billion yen in Japanese convenience ...

SoftBank intends to use AI to improve store management and introduce autonomous robots in stores, media report says ...

Toshifumi Suzuki, the founder of Seven-Eleven Japan and widely regarded as ‌the father of Japan's convenience ⁠store industry ...

If Japanese convenience stores are a vibe, then 7-Eleven in Japan is an entire energy field. With well over 20,000 locations across the country, it is the dominant minimart in The Land of the Rising ...

In the stores I visited in Japan, you could buy umbrellas and underwear, stationery or sake. You could pay an electric bill, top up a metro card, make photocopies, buy tickets to events, use the ...