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TOKYO -- Even as the Zozotown marketplace remains a top destination for young Japanese shopping for clothes online, the company behind it needs to come up with a design for continued growth. [1]

TOKYO -- Yahoo Japan plans to buy the operator of the country's largest online fashion retailer, Zozo, the two companies announced on Thursday. [2]

Japanese ways of doing things have a tendency to gain currency in the West. Whether it’s something fiddly such as kintsugi (repairing broken crockery with resin and gold flakes) or putting one’s house in order a la Marie Kondo, these ideas catch on i... [3]

BusinessCustom-fit clothes retailer Zozo launches in 72 countries Japanese online company challenges Uniqlo, Amazon with global rollout Start Today founder and CEO Yusaku Maezawa unveils Zozo's new business suits, wearing one himself during a news co... [4]

OSAKA -- Shares in Japanese appliance maker Zojirushi have heated up, but not on hopes for rising sales to tourists during the upcoming Lunar New Year holiday. [5]

Zhong An is the largest insurance company in the world that you have never heard of. [6]

TAIPEI -- At first glance, Wamaki looks like any other sushi bar in Taipei: a single wooden counter with several booths draped in cloth screens, decorated with splashes of calligraphy. But there is a catch. [7]

Mia Kong, 29 In China, luxury consumers are both becoming younger and less brand-loyal, says Mia Kong, Shanghai-based style director for magazine Dazed China. [8]

Note: This briefing is based on limited source coverage. The evidence may be incomplete or outdated.

Sources
[1] TH asia.nikkei.com · 2017-04-29 · 40% match

Why all is not well in Zozotown

TOKYO -- Even as the Zozotown marketplace remains a top destination for young Japanese shopping for clothes online, the company behind it needs to come up with a design for continued growth.

[2] TH asia.nikkei.com · 2019-09-12 · 38% match

Yahoo Japan to buy online fashion giant Zozo for $3.7bn

TOKYO -- Yahoo Japan plans to buy the operator of the country's largest online fashion retailer, Zozo, the two companies announced on Thursday.

[3] MM www.japantimes.co.jp · 2023-09-29 · 38% match

How the world got hooked onikejime-caught fish

Japanese ways of doing things have a tendency to gain currency in the West. Whether it’s something fiddly such as kintsugi (repairing broken crockery with resin and gold flakes) or putting one’s house in order a la Marie Kondo, these ideas catch on i

[4] TH asia.nikkei.com · 2018-07-03 · 38% match

Custom-fit clothes retailer Zozo launches in 72 countries

BusinessCustom-fit clothes retailer Zozo launches in 72 countries Japanese online company challenges Uniqlo, Amazon with global rollout Start Today founder and CEO Yusaku Maezawa unveils Zozo's new business suits, wearing one himself during a news co

[5] TH asia.nikkei.com · 2020-01-18 · 37% match

Chinese mystery investor lights fire under Japan's Zojirushi

OSAKA -- Shares in Japanese appliance maker Zojirushi have heated up, but not on hopes for rising sales to tourists during the upcoming Lunar New Year holiday.

[6] TH asia.nikkei.com · 2016-12-08 · 37% match

Chinese online insurer leaves traditional rivals in the dust

Zhong An is the largest insurance company in the world that you have never heard of.

[7] TH asia.nikkei.com · 2023-06-08 · 35% match

Taiwan chefs go back to island's roots

TAIPEI -- At first glance, Wamaki looks like any other sushi bar in Taipei: a single wooden counter with several booths draped in cloth screens, decorated with splashes of calligraphy. But there is a catch.

[8] TH asia.nikkei.com · 2019-09-18 · 35% match

Asia's Gen Z: Three young pacesetters to watch

Mia Kong, 29 In China, luxury consumers are both becoming younger and less brand-loyal, says Mia Kong, Shanghai-based style director for magazine Dazed China.

[9] TH asia.nikkei.com · 2018-01-01 · 35% match

Japan's elephant brand trying to raise its overseas profile

OSAKA -- Zojirushi is looking overseas for more sales now that Chinese tourists to Japan have curtailed their bakugai collective spending binge in the country.

[10] TH asia.nikkei.com · 2018-10-31 · 34% match

Online fashion retailer Zozo simplifies measurement process

TOKYO -- Japanese online fashion retailer Zozo has altered its service to allow it to take down the unique size of individual customers from just a few basic questions, founder Yusaku Maezawa said during Wednesday's quarterly meeting with analysts.

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