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A EVISUKURO Store in Shanghai

SHANGHAI, CHINA - MARCH 22, 2024 - A Japanese clothing brand EVISUKURO store in Shanghai, China, March 22, 2024.

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A EVISUKURO Store in Shanghai

SHANGHAI, CHINA - MARCH 22, 2024 - A Japanese clothing brand EVISUKURO store in Shanghai, China, March 22, 2024.

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Uniqlo logo

File photo taken on Aug. 29, 2023, shows Uniqlo's corporate logos at the Japanese casual clothing chain's flagship outlet in Tokyo's Ginza shopping district.

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Uniqlo logo

Photo taken Aug. 29, 2023, shows a Uniqlo corporate logo at an outlet of the Japanese casual clothing chain in Tokyo.

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Uniqlo logo

Photo taken Aug. 29, 2023, shows a Uniqlo corporate logo at an outlet of the Japanese casual clothing chain in Tokyo.

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Japan's Kuwata wins 2023 LVMH Prize for Young Designers

Satoshi Kuwata (C), the Japanese designer and founder of clothing brand Setchu, poses for photo after winning the 2023 LVMH Prize for Young Designers, one of the most prestigious awards in the fashion industry, in Paris on June 7, 2023.

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Japan's Kuwata wins 2023 LVMH Prize for Young Designers

Satoshi Kuwata (C), the Japanese designer and founder of clothing brand Setchu, is pictured with two models wearing his brand's clothes as he wins the 2023 LVMH Prize for Young Designers, one of the most prestigious awards in the fashion industry, in Paris on June 7, 2023.

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Japan PM Kishida in Okinawa shirt

Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida enters his office in Tokyo on June 6, 2023, wearing a "kariyushi" summer shirt from the southern prefecture of Okinawa to promote Okinawa products and the annual "Cool Biz" light clothing campaign.

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Japan gov't top spokesman in Okinawa shirt

Japanese Chief Cabinet Secretary Hirokazu Matsuno attends a press conference in Tokyo on June 6, 2023, wearing a "kariyushi" summer shirt from the southern prefecture of Okinawa to promote Okinawa products and the annual "Cool Biz" light clothing campaign.

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Japan PM Kishida in Okinawa shirt

Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida (C) attends a Cabinet meeting at the prime minister's office in Tokyo on June 6, 2023, wearing a "kariyushi" summer shirt from the southern prefecture of Okinawa to promote Okinawa products and the annual "Cool Biz" light clothing campaign.

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Fast Retailing eyeing expansion of overseas operations via M&As

TOKYO, Japan - Tadashi Yanai, chairman and chief executive officer of Fast Retailing Co., a leading Japanese casual-clothing retailer, speaks at a news conference in Tokyo on Sept. 4 where the company said it will continue to invest 300-400 billion yen for mergers and acquisitions in order to raise its profile in the global market.

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New logo for Japanese-made clothing items

TOKYO, Japan - The Japan Fashion Industry Council announces on Jan. 14, 2015, it will allow the "J 竏 QUALITY" logo on clothing items that are completely manufactured in Japan, through weaving and knitting, dyeing and finishing, and sewing, to endorse the quality of the merchandise.

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Merchants hand out thermal wear to promote business

YOKOHAMA, Japan - Young merchants hand out thermal underwear on a shopping street in Atsugi west of Tokyo on Nov. 25, 2014, in a campaign to shore up their declining business by wearing light clothing in cold weather to take advantage of the city's name that also means "heavily dressed" in Japanese.

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New Uniqlo flagship store opens in Osaka

OSAKA, Japan - Customers fill the second Osaka flagship store of Japanese casual clothing chain Uniqlo on Oct. 31, 2014, as the new store in front of Hankyu Umeda Station officially opens.

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New Uniqlo flagship store opens in Osaka

OSAKA, Japan - Customers queue in the second Osaka flagship store of Japanese casual clothing chain Uniqlo on Oct. 31, 2014, as the new store in front of Hankyu Umeda Station officially opens.

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New Uniqlo flagship store opens in Osaka

OSAKA, Japan - Customers enter the second Osaka flagship store of Japanese casual clothing chain Uniqlo on Oct. 31, 2014, as the new store in front of Hankyu Umeda Station officially opens.

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New Uniqlo flagship store opens in Osaka

OSAKA, Japan - Customers fill the second Osaka flagship store of Japanese casual clothing chain Uniqlo on Oct. 31, 2014, as the new store in front of Hankyu Umeda Station officially opens.

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New Uniqlo flagship store opens in Osaka

OSAKA, Japan - Customers queue outside the second Osaka flagship store of Japanese casual clothing chain Uniqlo on Oct. 31, 2014, the day of the official opening of the new store in front of Hankyu Umeda Station.

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Japan increases duty-free items for foreign tourists

TOKYO, Japan - Foreign tourists browse the food floor in the Ginza Mitsukoshi department store in Tokyo on Oct. 1, 2014. The Japanese government expanded its list of duty-free items for foreign visitors the same day to include foods, alcohol, drugs and cosmetics on top of electronic goods, clothing and bags already exempt from the 8 percent consumption tax.

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Blouson with Japanese tags made in N. Korea

TOKYO, Japan - A blouson with tags written in Japanese characters sewn at the Sonbong clothing factory in Rason, a special economic zone in northeastern North Korea, is photographed in March 2014.

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Japanese firms unveil fashionable farm work clothing

OSAKA, Japan - Kubota Corp. and Mont-Bell Co. display fashionable clothing for agricultural work in Osaka, western Japan, on March 13, 2014, before they begin joint marketing.

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Relief goods given to Syrian refugees from quake-hit Japanese

ADANA, Turkey - A Syrian refugee in Adana, Turkey, picks a coat on March 5, 2014, from among clothing sent by Japanese people in areas hit by the March 11, 2011, earthquake and tsunami while another woman writes a thank-you message.

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Quake survivors help Syrians

MORIOKA, Japan - Aid worker Maiko Sato sorts cardboard boxes containing clothing in Kamaishi, Iwate Prefecture, on Jan. 14, 2014. A group of Japanese citizens displaced by the 2011 Great East Japan Earthquake and tsunami that ravaged Japan's northeast were sending warm clothing and other supplies to Syrian refugees stranded in the Turkish border city of Kilis.

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Quake survivors help Syrians

MORIOKA, Japan - A group of Japanese citizens displaced by the 2011 disaster that ravaged Japan's northeast put boxes of clothing into a truck in Kamaishi, Iwate Prefecture, on Jan. 14, 2014. The survivors of the Great East Japan Earthquake and tsunami were sending warm clothing and other supplies to Syrian refugees stranded in the Turkish border city of Kilis.

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Quake survivors help Syrians

MORIOKA, Japan - A group of Japanese citizens displaced by the 2011 disaster that ravaged Japan's northeast put boxes of clothing into a truck in Kamaishi, Iwate Prefecture, on Jan. 14, 2014. The survivors of the Great East Japan Earthquake and tsunami were sending warm clothing and other supplies to Syrian refugees stranded in the Turkish border city of Kilis.

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Japan enters 9th Warm Biz season

TOKYO, Japan - Officials of the Environment Ministry work at the ministry in Tokyo on Nov. 1, 2013, wearing items such as sweaters and stoles, as the Japanese government began promoting a nationwide "Warm Biz" energy-saving campaign the same day to encourage the use of warm clothing and food with body-heating effects, rather than electric heating, to fend off the autumn and winter cold. During the ninth Warm Biz season until March 31, 2014, the ministry will encourage setting room temperatures at offices and homes across the country at 20 C.

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Japan enters 9th Warm Biz season

TOKYO, Japan - Officials of the Environment Ministry work at the ministry in Tokyo on Nov. 1, 2013, wearing items such as sweaters and stoles, with an official (front) having a ginger drink to warm herself, as the Japanese government began promoting a nationwide "Warm Biz" energy-saving campaign the same day to encourage the use of warm clothing and food with body-heating effects, rather than electric heating, to fend off the autumn and winter cold. During the ninth Warm Biz season until March 31, 2014, the ministry will encourage setting room temperatures at offices and homes across the country at 20 C.

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'Comfort women' memorial in California

LOS ANGELES, United States - A "comfort women" memorial (far L) -- a bronze statue of a girl in traditional Korean clothing sitting next to an empty chair -- is unveiled at Glendale Central Park near Los Angeles on July 30, 2013. The statue dedicated to women forced into sexual slavery for the Imperial Japanese military is a replica of a memorial in front of the Japanese Embassy in Seoul.

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'Comfort women' memorial in California

LOS ANGELES, United States - Kim Bok Dong (L), 87, sits next to a bronze statue of a girl in traditional Korean clothing -- a memorial for women forced into sexual slavery for the Imperial Japanese military -- at Glendale Central Park near Los Angeles on July 30, 2013. Kim said she spent eight years providing sexual services to Japanese troops after she was forcibly drafted when just 14 years old.

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Swiss garment recycling firm

TOKYO, Japan - Stephan Wiegand (L), chief executive officer of Swiss garment and shoe recycling company I:Collect AG, and Akifumi Okamoto, president of Don Don Up Co., a Japanese vintage clothing chain, shake hands during a press conference in Tokyo on June 20, 2013. I:Collect will establish a Japanese unit in July 2013 in Morioka, Iwate Prefecture, which Okamoto will head.

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Japanese, Chinese women in N.Y. begin online fashion business

NEW YORK, United States - Staff members of ''Material Wrld,'' online fashion business launched by Japanese and Chinese women Rie Yano and Jie Zheng, select clothing for photos to be posted on the website at a photo studio in New York on Dec. 11, 2012. (Photo by Meg Maruyama)

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Uniqlo unveils scholarships

TOKYO, Japan - Uniqlo Co. Chairman and President Tadashi Yanai (R) and U.S. Ambassador to Japan John Roos (C) join hands during a press conference in Tokyo on Oct. 23, 2012. The major clothing retailer announced a $1.6 million scholarship program to help young Japanese aiming to become business leaders and fashion designers enroll as graduate students at three prestigious U.S institutions.

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New Uniqlo store opens in Shanghai

SHANGHAI, China - Japanese casual clothing store chain Uniqlo opens a new outlet in Shanghai on Sept. 29, 2012, despite ongoing anti-Japan demonstrations across China over a territorial dispute between the two countries. As of the end of August, Uniqlo ran 145 stores in China, including more than 30 in Shanghai alone.

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New Uniqlo store opens in Shanghai

SHANGHAI, China - Residents await the opening of a new outlet of Japanese casual clothing store chain Uniqlo in Shanghai on Sept. 29, 2012, despite ongoing anti-Japan demonstrations across China over a territorial dispute between the two countries. As of the end of August, Uniqlo ran 145 stores in China, including more than 30 in Shanghai alone.

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New Uniqlo store opens in Shanghai

SHANGHAI, China - Japanese casual clothing store chain Uniqlo opens a new outlet in Shanghai on Sept. 29, 2012, despite ongoing anti-Japan demonstrations across China over a territorial dispute between the two countries. As of the end of August, Uniqlo ran 145 stores in China, including more than 30 in Shanghai alone.

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Seven & I's private-brand clothing items

TOKYO, Japan - Photo taken Aug. 27, 2012, in Tokyo's Chiyoda Ward, shows clothing items Seven & I Holdings Co. plans to release under its Seven Premium private brand. The major Japanese retailer will sell about 200 items priced between 380 yen and 1,490 yen, including body-warming innerwear, from Aug. 29 under the brand.

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Student uses fashion show to promote Arab-Japan ties

TOKYO, Japan - Megumi Yoshinaga, a 19-year-old Chinese-born, naturalized Japanese university student, poses for a photo during a fashion show in Tokyo on July 15, 2012. She headed a group of students to successfully organize the show featuring the latest styles of "abaya" Islamic women's clothing for cultural promotion between Japan and the Arab world.

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Ishikawa's paper-woven textile draws attention

KANAZAWA, Japan - Chiyoko Kamei (L) holds a textile product developed by her small company from Japanese paper, in Hakui, Ishikawa Prefecture, on June 8, 2012. Trademarked "Nekiro," the textile is drawing attention as a clothing material during the country's "Cool Biz" campaign to help save energy in the workplace, due partly to its anti-humidity. To the right is Isao Okada, textile machinery engineer and director of the company.

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Piece of A-bomb-scorched clothing

TOKYO, Japan - Photo taken at the Ground Self-Defense Force Medical School in Tokyo's Setagaya Ward shows a piece of clothing (bottom) scorched in the shape of diamond patterns by the heat rays of the 1945 atomic bomb dropped over Hiroshima, and an explanatory text about it (above). The item was apparently brought back to Tokyo from Hiroshima by a research team of the former imperial Japanese army that was sent to the western Japanese city immediately after the bombing on Aug. 6, 1945, according to school officials.

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Peach Aviation launches 1st int'l flights

KANSAI AIRPORT, Japan - Employees of Japanese low-cost carrier Peach Aviation Ltd., wearing traditional Korean clothing, attend an event at Kansai International Airport in Osaka Prefecture on May 8, 2012, to promote its first international service that commenced the same day between the airport and Incheon International Airport near Seoul.

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Nishikori in Uniqlo tennis outfit

TOKYO, Japan - Japanese tennis player Kei Nishikori poses wearing a Uniqlo-brand tennis outfit in Tokyo on Feb. 13, 2012. Fast Retailing Co., which runs the Uniqlo clothing retail chain, said the same day that it will launch 12 kinds of products in April with the same design as those Nishikori wears, including a tennis shirt and shorts.

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'Warm Biz' campaign kicks off in Japan

TOKYO, Japan - Officials of the Environment Ministry work at the ministry in Tokyo on Nov. 1, 2011, wearing cardigans, as the Japanese government began promoting a nationwide ''Warm Biz'' energy-saving campaign the same day to encourage the use of warm clothing and hot food, rather than electric heating, to fend off the autumn and winter cold. The ministry is encouraging setting room temperatures at offices and homes across the country at 20 C.

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Fast Retailing eyes Uniqlo expansion in U.S.

NEW YORK, United States - Tadashi Yanai, chairman and president of Japanese casual clothing chain operator Fast Retailing Co., speaks to reporters in New York on Oct. 13, 2011, before its second Uniqlo store in the United States opens on New York's Fifth Avenue the following day. He said the company plans to open more than 1,600 Uniqlo stores in the United States.

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1st Uniqlo shop in Thailand

BANGKOK, Thailand - Japanese Ambassador to Thailand Seiji Kojima (C) takes part in a ribbon-cutting ceremony for Thailand's first Uniqlo casual clothing store in Bangkok on Sept. 9, 2011. It is the largest Uniqlo store, operated by Fast Retailing Co. of Japan, in Southeast Asia.

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Uniqlo to open 3 stores in Bangkok

BANGKOK, Thailand - Naoki Otoma (2nd from R), senior vice president of Japanese apparel company Fast Retailing Co., holds a press conference in Bangkok on June 23, 2011. Otoma said the company's Uniqlo casual clothing chain will open three stores in Bangkok in autumn.

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Japan-Bangladesh talks

TOKYO, Japan - Japanese Prime Minsiter Naoto Kan (R) and Bangladeshi Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina shake hands at the premier's office in Tokyo on Nov. 29, 2010. Kan promised Hasina that Japan would study the possibility of cutting tariffs on clothing imports from Bangladesh.

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Uniqlo opens 1st store in Malaysia

KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia - Shoppers line up to enter the first outlet in Malaysia of Japanese clothing chain Uniqlo in Kuala Lumpur on Nov. 4, 2010.

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Flagship Uniqlo outlet opens in Shanghai

SHANGHAI, China - Salesclerks attend to customers at a flagship Uniqlo outlet in Shanghai on May 15, 2010, as Fast Retailing Co., the Japanese operator of the popular Uniqlo casual clothing chain, opened the new three-story store, its 65th outlet in China, including Hong Kong, and fourth global flagship outlet.

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Flagship Uniqlo outlet opens in Shanghai

SHANGHAI, China - Shoppers flock to a flagship Uniqlo outlet in Shanghai on May 15, 2010, as Fast Retailing Co., the Japanese operator of the popular Uniqlo casual clothing chain, opened the new three-story store, its 65th outlet in China, including Hong Kong, and fourth global flagship outlet.

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Uniqlo unveils new summer collection of UT brand T-shirts

TOKYO, Japan - Japanese model and actress Karina (C) and her older sisters Anna Nose (L) and Erena, who are also models, pose for photographers in T-shirts they have designed for Uniqlo Co.'s new collection of summer T-shirts in Tokyo on April 15, 2010. The clothing maker unveiled a new collection of summer T-shirts for men and women that it will market under its popular UT brand.

A EVISUKURO Store in Shanghai

A EVISUKURO Store in Shanghai

Uniqlo logo

Uniqlo logo

Uniqlo logo

Japan's Kuwata wins 2023 LVMH Prize for Young Designers

Japan's Kuwata wins 2023 LVMH Prize for Young Designers

Japan PM Kishida in Okinawa shirt

Japan gov't top spokesman in Okinawa shirt

Japan PM Kishida in Okinawa shirt

Fast Retailing eyeing expansion of overseas operations via M&amp;As

New logo for Japanese-made clothing items

Merchants hand out thermal wear to promote business

New Uniqlo flagship store opens in Osaka

New Uniqlo flagship store opens in Osaka

New Uniqlo flagship store opens in Osaka

New Uniqlo flagship store opens in Osaka

New Uniqlo flagship store opens in Osaka

Japan increases duty-free items for foreign tourists

Blouson with Japanese tags made in N. Korea

Japanese firms unveil fashionable farm work clothing

Relief goods given to Syrian refugees from quake-hit Japanese

Quake survivors help Syrians

Quake survivors help Syrians

Quake survivors help Syrians

Japan enters 9th Warm Biz season

Japan enters 9th Warm Biz season

'Comfort women' memorial in California

'Comfort women' memorial in California

Swiss garment recycling firm

Japanese, Chinese women in N.Y. begin online fashion business

Uniqlo unveils scholarships

New Uniqlo store opens in Shanghai

New Uniqlo store opens in Shanghai

New Uniqlo store opens in Shanghai

Seven &amp; I's private-brand clothing items

Student uses fashion show to promote Arab-Japan ties

Ishikawa's paper-woven textile draws attention

Piece of A-bomb-scorched clothing

Peach Aviation launches 1st int'l flights

Nishikori in Uniqlo tennis outfit

'Warm Biz' campaign kicks off in Japan

Fast Retailing eyes Uniqlo expansion in U.S.

1st Uniqlo shop in Thailand

Uniqlo to open 3 stores in Bangkok

Japan-Bangladesh talks

Uniqlo opens 1st store in Malaysia

Flagship Uniqlo outlet opens in Shanghai

Flagship Uniqlo outlet opens in Shanghai

Uniqlo unveils new summer collection of UT brand T-shirts

Fast Retailing eyeing expansion of overseas operations via M&As

Seven & I's private-brand clothing items