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Daiso’s One-Price World
How a truck-side discount stall in Hiroshima became the 100-yen shop chain selling thrift in more than 25 countries
Companies
How a truck-side discount stall in Hiroshima became the 100-yen shop chain selling thrift in more than 25 countries
How a Niigata metalworking family turned premium camping gear into a lifestyle brand from Portland to London
How an Osaka maths teacher's homework for his son became a self-learning franchise in more than 60 countries.
How a 1962 Tokyo start-up created Japan's security industry, and why it is now selling safety to an ageing society.
The machine tool maker that has designed its own CNC control since 1963 — and why that moat matters now
How Japan's sheet metal machine giant is bringing lights-out fabrication to the world's smallest workshops
Why a state-backed fund paid roughly 900 billion yen to delist the world's leading photoresist maker
From the 1691 Besshi copper mine to the nickel-rich cathode powder inside Panasonic's EV cells
The 140-year-old copper house bought optical fibre at the top of the telecom bubble - two decades later the assets finally fit the market
How rollable ribbon fibre and fusion splicers turned a 140-year-old cable maker into a data-centre bottleneck supplier
From Himeji lamp maker to the ultraviolet and laser-driven light sources inside lithography, inspection and packaging tools
The Yokohama fastener maker earning strong margins on parts that cost a few yen - and barely care whether the car burns fuel