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コンビニはいつの間にか、日本のインフラになっていた

Somewhere Along the Way, Konbini Became Japan's Civic Infrastructure

From paying taxes to picking up Amazon parcels, printing documents, and recycling batteries, Japanese konbini have quietly become civic infrastructure. Through a foreign friend's eyes, we revisit the strangeness Japanese people take for granted, and the labor shortage and unmanned-store experiments propping it all up.

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Somewhere Along the Way, Konbini Became Japan's Civic Infrastructure

From paying taxes to picking up Amazon parcels, printing documents, and recycling batteries, Japanese konbini have quietly become civic infrastructure. Through a foreign friend's eyes, we revisit the strangeness Japanese people take for granted, and the labor shortage and unmanned-store experiments propping it all up.