TOKYO (AP) — Hirotake Yano, who founded the retail chain Daiso known for its 100-yen shops, Japan’s equivalent of the dollar store, has died. He was 80. Yano died Feb. 12 of heart failure, Daiso ...

(CNN) — Hirotake Yano, the Japanese billionaire founder of Daiso Industries who helped popularize the discounted dollar-shop concept, has died of heart failure. He passed away in Hiroshima on February ...

Daiso is a wildly popular Japanese dollar store known for selling everything from beauty products to baking utensils. In Japanese, dai means big and so means to create. The international chain ...

Corrections & Clarifications: A previous version of this article provided incorrect pricing and a location was omitted from the list. The popular Japanese discount store Daiso opened its first Arizona ...

Amid public outrage over an incident where an employee at a Daiso store in Jeollanam-do knelt down after being protested by a ...

TOKYO (AP) — Hirotake Yano, who founded the 100-yen retail chain Daiso, Japan’s equivalent of the dollar store, has died. He was 80. The company said Yano died Feb. 12 of heart failure in Hiroshima.