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 ...

We dug through the company's history online to learn what we could about the store. Here's everything you should know about the store's origins. The foundation for Daiso began in the capital city of ...

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.