People may window-shop for fashions, but they actually shop at 100-yen stores. A single 100-yen coin (plus an additional 5 yen for tax, totaling about $1.15) ...

In this shopping-mad country, the latest craze is the 100-yen store. For a little more than a dollar, savvy consumers can stock up on everything from origami paper to banana cases to milk carton ...

TOKYO, April 8 (Reuters) - A U.S. dollar bill could soon be worth the same as a Japanese 100-yen coin for the first time since April 2009, as investors price in the Bank of Japan's aggressive ...

100-yen store Can Do is releasing a special Pac-Man collection. ... such as A4 file folders, key chains, coin cases and plastic zip bags in various sizes. Photo: Bandai Namco ...

The discount chain made over 550 billion yen ($ 3.6 billion) in sales as of February 2022, according to the privately-held company. The business model spawned similar 100-yen retailers in Japan ...

Investors faced little resistance in their months-long campaign to push the Japanese currency within one yen of 100 to the dollar. Covering that last bit of ground is proving much harder.