Supermarkets of Japan

Japanese retail holding company

Japanese discount chain store

is a Japanese supermarket chains owned by Aeon. The company was founded in Osaka in 1957 by Isao Nakauchi, opening its first location near Sembayashi Station.

Japanese group of supermarkets, shopping centers, and department stores owned by Walmart

or ; () was a Japanese retail group, founded in 1930 by and his wife . Initially a single shop selling vegetables, it was expanded by their son Kazuo Wada into a major supermarket chain with most retail outlets located in Shizuoka prefecture, south of Tokyo. It was incorporated in 1948 and listed on Tokyo Stock Exchange. The store was far more established and notable outside Japan, due to restrictive laws in Japan that made it difficult to set up new businesses, such that by the time it opened its first store in the Tokyo metropolitan area, the company was already in a state of decline due to

thumb|APiTA in Kōnan, Aichi|Konan, Aichi Prefecture thumb|Piago UNY in Telford Gardens|Telford Gardens Plaza, Hong Kong is a company that operates a chain of supermarkets in Japan. Most of the stores are mainly located in the Chūbu and Kantō regions, with an international branch in Cityplaza, Taikoo Shing, Hong Kong operated by Uny (HK) Co., Ltd. with a brand name called APiTA, which is a subsidiary company of Henderson Land Development, a Hong Kong real estate company controlled by Hong Kong tycoon Lee Shau-kee. The company is headquartered in Inazawa, Aichi Prefecture.

thumb|right|An Ito-Yokado store in Okayama, Okayama|Okayama, January 2010