On February 8, 2012, the Company acquired a 70% stake in Ginza Stefany Cosmetics Co.
Today Forever 21 operates 470 stores worldwide, including five in Japan (Shinjuku, Shibuya, Lalaport, Harajuku, and Ginza).
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They're already in London and Beijing, and Dover Street Market Ginza will open in Tokyo in March 2012.
Despite morning rainfall in Tokyo, hundreds of eager customers lined up outside an Apple store in the city's Ginza shopping district.
Despite this, some 50, 000 teenagers solemnly filed out of subway exits to line kilometers of sidewalk near the Ginza business district.
Ginza is usually teeming with groups of foreign tourists, especially cash-rich Chinese.
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"There are hundreds of buildings like this just in Ginza, " Nick says.
Toyota engineers diplomatically toasted their new partners at Nissan during a celebratory dinner in Tokyo's flashy Ginza district after the deal was announced.
In Tokyo, more than 450 people stood in a line when the doors of the Apple store in the upscale Ginza neighborhood opened.
Japan's system, having been devised on the back of a cocktail napkin in a Ginza bar by Douglas MacArthur in 1945, is different.
In Ginza, Tokyo's high-end shopping district, a group of 34 tourists from Sweden was riding a large tour bus after shopping on a recent afternoon.
Looking around the city's drinking mecca, Ginza, it's easy to see why: The blocks are filled with multistory buildings housing three or four bars per floor.
The smallest, at 2, 142 square feet, is the Kurata house, built in 1955 by Isoya Yoshida, the architect of the Kabukiza theater in Ginza, Tokyo's poshest district.
After waiting for about 40 minutes at a Ginza gold shop, Akemi Nakamura, a 50-year-old mother of two, sold gold accessories that she bought 20 years ago.
"It's almost like a festival, people just camping in the center of Ginza, just drinking and playing and talking to each other, " said Taiyo Nakashima, a 34-year-old Web designer.
Her parents had assumed that she would have an arranged marriage: that was the way things were in the Ginza district of Tokyo, where her father was a doctor.
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Colombian pop star Shakira hung out in Ginza with defender Gerard Pique, while Cesc Fabregas shopped for electronic gadgets in Akihabara and soft-spoken midfielder Andres Iniesta was spotted on the Tokyo subway.
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