Daily Yamazaki is a "konbini" or convenience store franchise chain in Japan. Date of establishment: December 21, 1977. The convenience store chain is owned by Yamazaki Baking Co., Ltd. Yamazaki Baking is Japan's largest baking company. As such, they have available a variety of bread, pastry, and other baked goods. They retail both traditional Japanese style and Western style confectionary. In addition, the other usual Japanese convenience store goods such as magazines, soft drinks, onigiri and bento are available. A convenience store is a small store or shop, generally accessible or local. ... Meanings of franchise: Full rights of citizenship given by a country or a town, especially suffrage (political franchise) In a wider sense: any right or privilege granted by constitution or statute. ... Official language Japanese Capital Tokyo Largest City Tokyo Emperor Akihito Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi Area  - Total  - % water Ranked 60th 377,835 km² 0. ... December is the twelfth and last month of the year in the Gregorian Calendar and one of seven Gregorian months with the length of 31 days. ... For the album by Ash, see 1977 (album). ... Residents of North America and Europe often eat pre-sliced white bread. ... Pastry the name given to various kinds of dough made from ingredients such as flour, butter and eggs, that are rolled out thinly and used as the base for baked goods. ... The term confectionery refers to food items rich in sugar. ... This article is about the magazine as a published medium. ... A soft drink is a drink that contains no alcohol. ... Onigiri (お握り) is a Japanese rice ball snack most commonly formed into triangle or oval shapes and wrapped in seaweed (nori). ... Bento served at restaurant Bentō (弁当, べんとう) is Japanese for a single-portion takeout meal. ...

Top competitors are Lawson (store) and 7-Eleven. Lawson is a konbini or convenience store franchise chain in Japan. ... 7-Eleven is an international conglomerate which operates the largest chain of convenience stores in twenty countries including: the United States, Canada, Norway, Sweden, Denmark, Japan, Australia, Taiwan, China, Hong Kong, Malaysia, Thailand, and Singapore. ...

External link

• Daily Yamazaki official homepage (http://www.daily-yamazaki.co.jp/index.html) in Japanese.

• Yamazaki Baking Co. offical homepage (http://www.yamazakipan.co.jp/index2.html) in Japanese

• Yamazaki official English information homepage (http://www.yamazakipan.co.jp/english/index.html) in English.