TOKYO: The 7-Eleven convenience store experience is so quintessential to modern Japan that it’s sometimes hard to recall that it’s not Japanese.  The first in Japan opened 50 years ago in Tokyo’s Toyosu, where the first item sold was a pair of sungl

A Canadian convenience store giant wants to buy the Japanese company that operates 7-Eleven in a deal that would create one of the world’s largest retail groups.bouncingball8 Japan’s Seven i Holdings said Monday that it had received a preliminary ta