Convenience store

 In 1962, The 1^st convenience store was born.

At recently, there are 53,185 stores in Japan.

Big 3 are below.

 Seven-Eleven (17,491)

                http://www.sej.co.jp/index.html

　LOWSON(11,653)

                http://www.lawson.co.jp/index.html

　FAMILY MART(11,271)

                http://www.family.co.jp/

If you need more detail information or reports, please check below web site.

http://www.jfa-fc.or.jp/ (multi language is supported)