Osaka, convenience store, Isabel Shen

Kansai International Airport’s Family Mart (Japan’s second-largest convenience store chain). Family Mart, with its (comparatively) cheap, quality products ranging from icy Gatsby face wipes to boxed lunches, held tight to the tenets of convenience. To an American accustomed to convenience stores stocked with Red Dye 40 spiked drinks and oily carbs of dubious quality and provenance, Family Mart was akin to the infamous Japanese toilet: an optimized version of the mundane.
(Isabel Shen/YJI)