Due to the shift in the Big Three's strategy, many long-running cars like the Ford Taurus, Buick Century and Pontiac Grand Prix fell behind their Japanese competitors in features and image ( relying more on fleet sales instead of retail and / or heavy incentive discounts ); some were discontinued.

Japan is the largest music market in the world, with a total retail value of 4, 096. 7 million dollars and most of the market is dominated by Japanese artists.

It was released in Japan after a delay as the Mega Jet was already being sold in Japanese retail stores.

Yaohan ( Japanese: ヤオハン or 八百半 ; Chinese: 八佰伴 ) was a Japanese retail group.

Through a combination of the 1997 Asian financial crisis and the stagnation of the Japanese retail market, however, the group declared bankruptcy with 161 billion yen of debts.

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() is a Japanese retail store chain.

Osaka's registered foreign population is a small fraction of the total population ; the makeup of the crowds and retail space in Ame-mura is predominantly Japanese.

* Gamers, a Japanese retail chain owned by Broccoli

It serves over 26 million Japanese households, 90, 000 SME customers, and retail brokerage clients under the name Mizuho Investors Securities nationwide.

is the core retail banking unit of Mizuho Financial Group, which is the second-largest financial services company in Japan and one of the three so-called Japanese " megabanks " ( along with Mitsubishi UFJ Financial Group and Sumitomo Mitsui Financial Group ).

As the Japanese economy was rebuilt after the war, Fuji Bank expanded its business in syndicated lending, corporate banking, public money management, mortgages and retail financial services.

Nomura makes most of its profits in the Japanese retail banking market, but has expanded its international investment banking capabilities.

Unlike most other Japanese department stores, the east block of Tokyu Department Store does not have retail space in the basement because of this.

Nintendo set up " JoySpots " at Japanese retail locations for this purpose.

The Prelude was used by Honda to introduce the Japanese Honda retail sales chain called Honda Verno, with the Prelude shortly introduced later internationally.

The Arcadia City Council approved a plan In April 2007 to develop an 830, 000 square foot commercial, retail, and office complex in the south parking area, where the barracks that housed interned Japanese Americans during WWII are located.

The " outer market " ( jōgai-shijō ) is a mixture of wholesale and retail shops that sell Japanese kitchen tools, restaurant supplies, groceries, and seafood, and many restaurants, especially sushi restaurants.

An uguisu-jō ( jō = woman ) is a female announcer at Japanese baseball games, or a woman employed to advertise products and sales with a microphone outside retail stores.

News reports both in Japan and Hawaii began to report that Tokyu would simply close all of its retail outlets and sell off its other properties and focus only on its Japanese businesses.

Yanase Co., Ltd., a Japanese retail dealership that imports European and North American vehicles soon after the end of World War II, sold various GM products, to include the Cavalier.

The result can be ' what the Japanese call a secret brand ... no regular retail outlets, no catalog, no web presence apart from a few cryptic mentions ... people like it because it's almost impossible to find '.

In Japan, the Corolla has always been exclusive to Japanese retail sales chain called Toyota Corolla Store, which was previously established in 1961, called Toyota Public Store, selling the Toyota Publica.

With the rise of the DVD video format, box sets featuring season or series runs of television series have become an increasingly important retail item.

New features include a larger entrance with interactive kiosks, retail, climate controlled space, and broadcast studio ; larger concourses ; new lighting and LED video systems with HDTV ; new seating ; two new pedestrian walkways suspended from the ceiling to allow fans to look directly down onto the games being played below ; more dining options ; and improved dressing rooms, locker rooms, green rooms, upgraded roof, and production offices.

Beginning with Space Invaders, video arcade games also started to appear in supermarkets, restaurants, liquor stores, gas stations and many other retail establishments looking for extra income.

Besides nearby downtown Ojai, Oak View is the only other town in the Ojai Valley with a discernible " downtown ", which has developed along the Ventura Avenue / Highway 33 corridor, and includes a post office, a grocery store and a grocery mart, one bank, a Thai restaurant, a coffee house / restaurant, a Mexican restaurant, a pizza parlor, two automobile repair shops, two tire shops, two self-serve gasoline stations, two coffee shops, a computer repair shop, an equipment rental yard, several hair stylists, a pet supplies store, a bar, a liquor store, a walk-in medical office, a real estate office, a car wash, a laundromat, a used car dealership, a tanning salon, a Sheriff's post, a video store, and other service and retail oriented businesses.

, retail prices for such a device, depending on its optional features ( such as digital sound or video output ), start between 30 and 80 USD / Euro.

The two major retail operating systems include basic video editing software-Apple's iMovie and Microsoft's Windows Movie Maker.

The home video became another mail-order success throughout 1995 and was released to retail stores, via MCA, late in 1996.

Starting in 1982, Adams resurrected the Maxwell Smart character for a series of television commercials for Savemart, a retail chain that sold audio and video equipment.

In the United States, it planned to close between 810 and 960 retail stores and instead launch as many as 10, 000 " Blockbuster Express " video rental kiosks by the middle of 2010.

was released with the intention of portraying the Nintendo Entertainment System as something novel in order to alleviate retail fears following the video game crash of 1983.

While the latter two episodes were released individually on video cassette, Encounter at Farpoint was released combined as a feature length episode with a retail price in the United States of $ 19. 95, compared to $ 12. 95 for the individual episodes.

Instead, it sells Radeon GPUs to third-party manufacturers, who build and sell the Radeon-based video cards to the OEM and retail channels.

In the early 1980s Muntz expanded his retail business to include cellular phones and satellite dishes in addition to the booming home video industry.

Strip malls / retail parks contain a wide variety of retail and non-retail functions that also cater to daily use ( e. g. video rental, takeout food, laundry services, hairdresser ).

Scores of restaurants, travel outlets, international video stores, retail boutiques, nightclubs, supermarkets, and Asian-oriented service outlets appeal to Oklahoma City's large Asian populace and tourists alike.

Later, with the advent of the home video market, the Disney company chose to make Alice in Wonderland one of the first titles available for the rental market on VHS and Beta and for retail sale on RCA's short-lived CED Videodisc format.

Companies may use them to secure expensive equipment that must be left in public places, such as computer displays in a retail store, or video projectors used in a hotel conference room.

Keychains are found in retail stores to represent things such as television shows, movies, video games, nostalgia, hobbies, interests and personalities.

Beginning with Space Invaders, video arcade games also started to appear in supermarkets, restaurants, liquor stores, gas stations and many other retail establishments looking for extra income.

The Army and Air Force Exchange Service Atlanta Distribution Center ( ADC ) mission is twofold: to receive, store and distribute retail, cost, food and expense merchandise to primary customers in the Southeastern United States and to receive, store and distribute specialized merchandise — music, video, jewelry, military clothing, catalog, books and magazines — to customers worldwide.

The company also operated divisions in e-commerce, videotape and DVD distribution, retail marketing and audio and video post-production, and was the primary shareholder in the satellite radio provider Sirius Canada.

Redbox is an American company that specializes in the rental of DVDs, Blu-ray Discs, and video games via automated retail kiosks.

The network of over 600 kiosks provided images and video promotion for customers who wished to purchase shoes that were not available in the retail location.