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Seven-Eleven Japan President Change Press Conference

Seven-Eleven Japan press conference on the change of president. Photo shows, from left, Fumihiko Nagamatsu, incoming chairman of the board and chairman of the board (currently president and representative director), and Tomohiro Akutsu, incoming president and representative director (currently executive officer and general manager of the Building Equipment Division).=April 17,2025,Tokyo

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Seven-Eleven Japan President Change Press Conference

Seven-Eleven Japan press conference on the change of president. Photo shows, from left, Fumihiko Nagamatsu, incoming chairman of the board and chairman of the board (currently president and representative director), and Tomohiro Akutsu, incoming president and representative director (currently executive officer and general manager of the Building Equipment Division).=April 17,2025,Tokyo

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Seven-Eleven convenience store outlet

Photo taken on Nov. 26, 2024, shows a Seven-Eleven convenience store outlet in New York operated by Japan's Seven & i Holdings Co. Canada's Alimentation Couche-Tard Inc., the operator of the Circle K convenience stores, has made a takeover bid for its Japanese rival.

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Alimentation Couche-Tard outlet

Photo taken on Nov. 21, 2024, shows an outlet of Canada's Alimentation Couche-Tard Inc. in Montreal. The operator of the Circle K convenience stores has made a takeover bid for Japan's Seven & i Holdings Co., the operator of the Seven-Eleven convenience store chain.

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50th anniv. ceremony of Seven-Eleven Japan

Toshifumi Suzuki, former chairman and chief executive officer of Seven & i Holdings Co., delivers a speech during a ceremony in Tokyo on April 20, 2023, marking the 50th anniversary of the founding of the Seven-Eleven Japan convenience store chain operator.

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Jan.-June mineral water shipments hit record high

TOKYO, Japan - A saleslady puts mineral water bottles on the shelves at a Tokyo convenience store run by Seven-Eleven Japan Co., a Seven & I Holdings Co. arm, on Aug. 15. A market research institute said Aug. 16 that mineral water shipments in Japan hit a new high in the January-June period at 74.5 million cases, reflecting consumers' growing health-consciousness and the introduction of a greater variety of products.

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Seven-Eleven opens store at JR's Kyoto Station

KYOTO, Japan - A Kiosk store-turned Seven-Eleven is seen at West Japan Railway Co.'s Kyoto Station in Kyoto City, western Japan, on June 4, 2014. Based on an agreement, Seven-Eleven Japan Co. will open around 500 outlets at JR West's train stations in western Japan.

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Anti-Japan protests in China

BEIJING, China - A Seven-Eleven Japan Co. convenience store is seen temporarily closed in Beijing on Sept. 18, 2012, for safety reasons as anti-Japan demonstrations were held in the capital and elsewhere in China.

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Anti-Japan protests in China

BEIJING, China - A Seven-Eleven Japan Co. convenience store is seen temporarily closed in Beijing on Sept. 18, 2012, for safety reasons as anti-Japan demonstrations were held in the capital and elsewhere in China.

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Seven-Eleven stores offer some city office services

TOKYO, Japan - Seven-Eleven Japan Co. President Ryuichi Isaka (3rd from L) and others cut the ribbon at a Seven-Eleven store in Tokyo on Feb. 2, 2010, marking the start of a new service enabling customers to issue certification of residence and personal seals at some of their convenience stores, instead of going to city offices. The service will be extended to all of about 12,600 Seven-Eleven outlets in 38 of 47 prefectures in Japan by May.

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Seven & I releases wines with global private brand

TOKYO, Japan - Seven-Eleven Japan Co. President Ryuichi Isaka (2nd from R) lines up with other people concerned to show off the wine that Seven & I Holdings Co. released under the private brand label Yosemite Road in Tokyo on Nov. 4, 2009.

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Seven Eleven to shoulder 15% of costs in disposing of unsold items

TOKYO, Japan - Seven-Eleven Japan Co. President Ryuichi Isaka speaks during a news conference in Tokyo on June 23. The nation's biggest convenience store chain operator said it will introduce a new system on July 1 in which it will shoulder 15 percent of the commodity cost of unsold products such as boxed lunches that are disposed of after their expiry dates at its franchise stores.

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Seven-Eleven Japan slapped for banning discount sales

TOKYO, Japan - A worker at a Seven-Eleven Japan Co. franchise store prepares to sell food products at discount prices in Okayama Prefecture on June 22. The Fair Trade Commission ordered Seven-Eleven Japan earlier in the day to stop the practice of unfairly banning its franchise stores from selling food products at discount prices.

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Seven-Eleven Japan slapped for banning discount sales

TOKYO, Japan - Seven-Eleven Japan Co. franchise store owners talk ahead of a news conference in Tokyo on June 22 after the Fair Trade Commission ordered the company earlier in the day to stop the practice of unfairly banning its franchise stores from selling food products at discount prices.

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Seven-Eleven Japan slapped for banning discount sales

TOKYO, Japan - Seven-Eleven Japan Co. President Ryuichi Isaka (R) speaks during a news conference in Tokyo on June 22 after the Fair Trade Commission ordered the company earlier in the day to stop the practice of unfairly banning its franchise stores from selling food products at discount prices.

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Convenience stores, supermarkets start selling drugs

TOKYO, Japan - A registered salesman checks nonprescription drugs on a shelf of a pharmacy in a convenience store outlet of Seven-Eleven Japan Co. in Tokyo's Chiyoda Ward on June 1, which began the 24-hour sale of such drugs on a pilot basis. Japanese convenience stores and supermarkets began selling the drugs, some around the clock, on June 1 as deregulation under a revised pharmacy law took effect.

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Convenience stores, supermarkets start selling drugs

TOKYO, Japan - A female customer checks nonprescription drugs sold at the pharmacy in a convenience store outlet of Seven-Eleven Japan Co. in Tokyo's Chiyoda Ward on June 1, which began the 24-hour sale of such drugs on a pilot basis. Japanese convenience stores and supermarkets began selling nonprescription drugs, some around the clock, on June 1 as deregulation under a revised pharmacy law took effect.

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Bulk buying of books and other items becoming popular with adults

TOKYO, Japan - Seven-Eleven Japan Co. and Coca-Cola (Japan) Co. sell bottles of Coke with extras attached.

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Osaka store worker stabbed to death after chasing shoplifters

OSAKA, Japan - File photo of Kenji Kamiuchi, a 27-year-old part-time employee at a Seven-Eleven convenience store in Neyagawa, Osaka Prefecture, who was fatally stabbed in the early hours of Oct. 6 by a shoplifter he chased. Two men fled after they were caught shoplifting inside the store and Kamiuchi caught up with one man, who attacked him with a knife.

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Osaka store worker stabbed to death after chasing shoplifters

OSAKA, Japan - Police officers investigate a crime scene in Neyagawa, Osaka Prefecture, where a 27-year-old part-time employee at a Seven-Eleven convenience store was fatally stabbed in the early hours of Oct. 6 by a shoplifter he chased. Two men believed to be around 18 to 20 years old fled after they were caught shoplifting and the Seven-Eleven employee, Kenji Kamiuchi, caught up with one man, who attacked him with a knife.

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(2)Seven-Eleven Japan opens 1st outlet in China

BEIJING, China - A tape-cutting ceremony is held in front of the first Chinese outlet of Seven-Eleven Japan Co. in Beijing on April 15.

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(1)Seven-Eleven Japan opens 1st outlet in China

BEIJING, China - Local people look at advertising flyers in front of the Beijing outlet of Seven-Eleven Japan Co. on April 15 as Japan' convenience store chain operator opened its first Chinese store. Seven-Eleven Japan plans to open 500 stores in China within five years.

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Seven-Eleven Japan convenience stores exceed 10,000 since 1974

TOKYO, Japan &#8211; A Seven-Eleven Japan Co. store opened in Tokyo on Aug. 31 brings to more than 10,000 the number of stores operated by the nation's largest convenience store chain operator.

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IYBank opens for business, launches 24-hour ATM services

TOKYO, Japan - IYBank President Takashi Anzai shows off bank cards at the bank's head office in central Tokyo on May 15. The branch-free bank, created by major retailer Ito-Yokado Co. and convenience-store subsidiary Seven-Eleven Japan Co., opened for business the same day, offering 24-hour automated teller machine services.

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Ito-Yokado's IYBank to begin operations May 7

TOKYO, Japan - Takashi Anzai (L), president of IYBank, and Toshifumi Suzuki, president of Ito-Yokado Co., show off bank cards in front of automated teller machines (ATMs) at a hotel in Tokyo on May 1. Anzai said IYBank, the new bank created by major retailer Ito-Yokado Co. and its convenience store subsidiary Seven-Eleven Japan Co., will begin operations May 7. IYBank plans to have ATMs installed at 3,650 outlets of Ito-Yokado and Seven-Eleven Japan nationwide by the end of its first year of business.

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7-Eleven delivery service using drone

A drone carrying a merchandise item from a 7-Eleven store flies in Tokyo's Hinode town on Dec. 2, 2021, following the receipt of a delivery order from a local customer. Seven-Eleven Japan Co. began the same day delivery service using a drone on a test basis, aiming to commercialize it within five years.

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7-Eleven delivery service using drone

A 7-Eleven employee attaches a merchandise item to a drone at a convenience store parking lot in Tokyo's Hinode town on Dec. 2, 2021, following the receipt of a delivery order from a local customer. Seven-Eleven Japan Co. began the same day delivery service using a drone on a test basis, aiming to commercialize it within five years.

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7-Eleven delivery service using drone

A drone carrying a merchandise item from a 7-Eleven store flies in Tokyo's Hinode town on Dec. 2, 2021, following the receipt of a delivery order from a local customer. Seven-Eleven Japan Co. began the same day delivery service using a drone on a test basis, aiming to commercialize it within five years.

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Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry (METI)

On August 22, the Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry (METI) announced that three convenience store companies, Seven-Eleven Japan, FamilyMart, and Lawson, will begin a demonstration experiment for joint delivery. For one week from August 1, the delivery trucks will be sent from each company's distribution bases to XFRONTIER, a joint delivery center of Sagawa Express (Koto Ward, Tokyo). They will then deliver beverages, confectionery, daily goods and other items to a total of 40 stores in the bay area of Tokyo. Seiichi Aoyama, General Manager of the QC and Logistics Management Division of Seven-Eleven Japan; Toru Oka, General Manager of the SCM and Quality Management Division of FamilyMart; and Hitoshi Fujii, General Manager of the Product Division of Lawson. (From left: Toru Oka, General Manager, SCM and Quality Control Division, FamilyMart; Hitoshi Fujii, General Manager, Merchandise Division, Lawson.

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Seven-Eleven Japan Launches "7pay

Seven-Eleven Japan to Launch 7pay, a Code Settlement Service by Seven & i Group, on July 1, 2019 = Seven-Eleven Kita-Urawa Koen-mae Store in Urawa-ku, Saitama City, Saitama Prefecture on July 1, 2019; Credit: Nikkan Kogyo Newspaper / Kyodo News Images

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Logo mark of Seven & i Holdings Co.

Logo = July 1, 2019, Headquarters, Chiyoda-ku, Tokyo; Credit: Nikkan Kogyo Shimbun / Kyodo News Images

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Seven-Eleven Japan Launches "7pay

Seven-Eleven Japan to Launch 7pay, a Code Settlement Service by Seven & i Group, on July 1, 2019 = Seven-Eleven Kita-Urawa Koen-mae Store in Urawa-ku, Saitama City, Saitama Prefecture on July 1, 2019; Credit: Nikkan Kogyo Newspaper / Kyodo News Images

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Logo mark of Seven & i Holdings Co.

Logo = July 1, 2019, Headquarters, Chiyoda-ku, Tokyo; Credit: Nikkan Kogyo Shimbun / Kyodo News Images

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Logo mark of Seven & i Holdings Co.

Logo = July 1, 2019, Headquarters, Chiyoda-ku, Tokyo; Credit: Nikkan Kogyo Shimbun / Kyodo News Images

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Seven Bank convenience store ATMs

A Seven Bank convenience store ATM equipped with a 7pay charge function in conjunction with the launch of 7pay operations.

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Logo mark of Seven & i Holdings Co.

Logo = July 1, 2019, Headquarters, Chiyoda-ku, Tokyo; Credit: Nikkan Kogyo Shimbun / Kyodo News Images

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Seven Bank convenience store ATMs

A Seven Bank convenience store ATM equipped with a 7pay charge function in conjunction with the launch of 7pay operations.

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Jan.-June mineral water shipments hit record high

TOKYO, Japan - A saleslady puts mineral water bottles on the shelves at a Tokyo convenience store run by Seven-Eleven Japan Co., a Seven & I Holdings Co. arm, on Aug. 15. A market research institute said Aug. 16 that mineral water shipments in Japan hit a new high in the January-June period at 74.5 million cases, reflecting consumers' growing health-consciousness and the introduction of a greater variety of products. (Kyodo)

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Convenience stores, supermarkets start selling drugs

TOKYO, Japan - A registered salesman checks nonprescription drugs on a shelf of a pharmacy in a convenience store outlet of Seven-Eleven Japan Co. in Tokyo's Chiyoda Ward on June 1, which began the 24-hour sale of such drugs on a pilot basis. Japanese convenience stores and supermarkets began selling the drugs, some around the clock, on June 1 as deregulation under a revised pharmacy law took effect. (Kyodo)

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Convenience stores, supermarkets start selling drugs

TOKYO, Japan - A female customer checks nonprescription drugs sold at the pharmacy in a convenience store outlet of Seven-Eleven Japan Co. in Tokyo's Chiyoda Ward on June 1, which began the 24-hour sale of such drugs on a pilot basis. Japanese convenience stores and supermarkets began selling nonprescription drugs, some around the clock, on June 1 as deregulation under a revised pharmacy law took effect. (Kyodo)

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Seven-Eleven Japan slapped for banning discount sales

TOKYO, Japan - Seven-Eleven Japan Co. President Ryuichi Isaka (R) speaks during a news conference in Tokyo on June 22 after the Fair Trade Commission ordered the company earlier in the day to stop the practice of unfairly banning its franchise stores from selling food products at discount prices. (Kyodo)

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Seven-Eleven Japan slapped for banning discount sales

TOKYO, Japan - A worker at a Seven-Eleven Japan Co. franchise store prepares to sell food products at discount prices in Okayama Prefecture on June 22. The Fair Trade Commission ordered Seven-Eleven Japan earlier in the day to stop the practice of unfairly banning its franchise stores from selling food products at discount prices. (Kyodo)

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Seven-Eleven Japan slapped for banning discount sales

TOKYO, Japan - Seven-Eleven Japan Co. franchise store owners talk ahead of a news conference in Tokyo on June 22 after the Fair Trade Commission ordered the company earlier in the day to stop the practice of unfairly banning its franchise stores from selling food products at discount prices. (Kyodo)

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Seven Eleven to shoulder 15% of costs in disposing of unsold item

TOKYO, Japan - Seven-Eleven Japan Co. President Ryuichi Isaka speaks during a news conference in Tokyo on June 23. The nation's biggest convenience store chain operator said it will introduce a new system on July 1 in which it will shoulder 15 percent of the commodity cost of unsold products such as boxed lunches that are disposed of after their expiry dates at its franchise stores. (Kyodo)

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Seven-Eleven Japan to get new president

TOKYO, Japan - Toshiro Yamaguchi (file photo), senior managing director of convenience store chain operator Seven-Eleven Japan Co., will become president to replace Ken Kudo, the company said on April 11. An official decision on the personnel change will be made at a board meeting that will take place after a general shareholders' meeting on May 24.

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Seven-Eleven store in Japan

Seven-Eleven store in Japan (Miyagi prefectur, Japan September 8, 1998)

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Seven & i shareholders OK 1st top management change in 24 yrs

Ryuichi Isaka (R) speaks at a press conference in Tokyo on May 26, 2016, after being promoted to president of Seven & i Holdings Co. at a shareholders' meeting. The promotion of Isaka, 58, who became president of Seven-Eleven Japan Co. in 2009, came after U.S. activist investor Daniel Loeb, whose hedge fund Third Point LLC holds a considerable stake in the retail giant, supported him. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Seven & i promotes Isaka to president after power tussle

Undated combined photo shows Seven-Eleven Japan Co. President Ryuichi Isaka (L) and Vice President Kazuki Furuya. Seven & i Holdings Co. said on April 19, 2016, that it will promote Isaka to president of the holding company and Furuya will succeed Isaka as president of the convenience store chain. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Seven & i CEO Suzuki announces resignation after years at helm

Toshifumi Suzuki, chief executive officer of Seven & i Holdings Co, announces his resignation at a press conference in Tokyo on April 7, 2016, ending years as the leader of the Japanese retail giant. The announcement came after the company board voted down a proposal put forward by Suzuki to oust Ryuichi Isaka, president of convenience store chain Seven-Eleven Japan Co. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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People queue for Seven-Eleven store opening in western Japan

People line up to enter one of the first three Seven-Eleven convenience stores that opened in Japan's least populated prefecture of Tottori on Oct. 30, 2015. After the opening in Tottori, Okinawa is the only one of Japan's 47 prefectures without a Seven-Eleven outlet. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

Seven-Eleven Japan President Change Press Conference

Seven-Eleven Japan President Change Press Conference

Seven-Eleven convenience store outlet

Alimentation Couche-Tard outlet

50th anniv. ceremony of Seven-Eleven Japan

Jan.-June mineral water shipments hit record high

Seven-Eleven opens store at JR's Kyoto Station

Anti-Japan protests in China

Anti-Japan protests in China

Seven-Eleven stores offer some city office services

Seven &amp; I releases wines with global private brand

Seven Eleven to shoulder 15% of costs in disposing of unsold items

Seven-Eleven Japan slapped for banning discount sales

Seven-Eleven Japan slapped for banning discount sales

Seven-Eleven Japan slapped for banning discount sales

Convenience stores, supermarkets start selling drugs

Convenience stores, supermarkets start selling drugs

Bulk buying of books and other items becoming popular with adults

Osaka store worker stabbed to death after chasing shoplifters

Osaka store worker stabbed to death after chasing shoplifters

(2)Seven-Eleven Japan opens 1st outlet in China

(1)Seven-Eleven Japan opens 1st outlet in China

Seven-Eleven Japan convenience stores exceed 10,000 since 1974

IYBank opens for business, launches 24-hour ATM services

Ito-Yokado's IYBank to begin operations May 7

7-Eleven delivery service using drone

7-Eleven delivery service using drone

7-Eleven delivery service using drone

Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry (METI)

Seven-Eleven Japan Launches "7pay

Logo mark of Seven & i Holdings Co.

Seven-Eleven Japan Launches "7pay

Logo mark of Seven & i Holdings Co.

Logo mark of Seven & i Holdings Co.

Seven Bank convenience store ATMs

Logo mark of Seven & i Holdings Co.

Seven Bank convenience store ATMs

Jan.-June mineral water shipments hit record high

Convenience stores, supermarkets start selling drugs

Convenience stores, supermarkets start selling drugs

Seven-Eleven Japan slapped for banning discount sales

Seven-Eleven Japan slapped for banning discount sales

Seven-Eleven Japan slapped for banning discount sales

Seven Eleven to shoulder 15% of costs in disposing of unsold item

Seven-Eleven Japan to get new president

Seven-Eleven store in Japan

Seven &amp; i shareholders OK 1st top management change in 24 yrs

Seven &amp; i promotes Isaka to president after power tussle

Seven &amp; i CEO Suzuki announces resignation after years at helm

People queue for Seven-Eleven store opening in western Japan

Seven & I releases wines with global private brand

Seven & i shareholders OK 1st top management change in 24 yrs

Seven & i promotes Isaka to president after power tussle

Seven & i CEO Suzuki announces resignation after years at helm