Well, there are always ways to improve your travels. Enter Japan’s 100 yen shop items for traveling. From Sapporo to Naha, these 100 yen stores are commonplace throughout the country.

Known as a pioneer of the dollar-shop business model ... That gave him the idea of charging a flat 100 yen for all his merchandise to save the time it took to attach the price tags.

Hirotake Yano, the founder of the operator of Daiso, Japan’s first and largest 100-yen shop chain, died of cardiac failure on Feb. 12. He was 80. His funeral was attended by close family members ...