Japan is synonymous with vending machines. The island-nation has vending machines for everything: fresh flowers, bowls of hot ...

Japan has millions of vending machines, but finding out whether they’re all actually worth using means spending an entire day ...

Despite Japan's reputation as a vending machine heaven, inflation has driven some companies that sell canned and bottled ...

Ito En shares surged, bucking a broader sell-off in Japanese stocks following its fiscal first-quarter results.

Japan's beverage vending machine industry is shrinking as higher operating costs and increased retail competition erode ...

You're currently following this author! Want to unfollow? Unsubscribe via the link in your email. In many ways Japan is a country that's firmly embraced technology, yet it remains attached to good old ...

YOKOTA AIR BASE, Japan – The ubiquitous Japanese vending machine is keeping its place on U.S. military bases, despite a nationwide round-up of obsolete machines. Many of the 4.1 million vending ...

A social media campaign encouraging consumers to support earthquake-damaged dairy farms in Japan's Kumamoto Prefecture has helped drive a surge in sales of locally produced milk, according to a Seoul ...

Japan has an impressive count of more than 2.6 million vending machines, providing a vast array of products for all kinds of ...

TOKYO — The vending machine at Hiroshi Nishitani’s Tokyo ramen restaurant has been reliable for a decade. Customers feed it money, and it prints out their orders while he makes fresh noodles in the ...