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  Yaohan - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Yaohan (Japanese: 八百半; Chinese: 八佰伴) was a Japanese retail group.
The group was traded on the Hong Kong Stock Exchange as Yaohan International Company Limited until August 11, 1998.
In March 2000 Yaohan was bought by ÆON Group and changed its name to Maxvalu Tokai.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Yaohan   (265 words)

  
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Jimenez' and Chacon's testimony--in the case of Chacon derived from his pretrial affidavit-- are mutually corroborative of the coercive conduct of Yaohan's supervisors and managers in soliciting and threatening employees to support the decertification petition and campaign among the Edgewater facility's employees.
The occasion for Yaohan to make good on its implied threat, made earlier to employees solicited by Gonzalez in the office, and on its pointed acknowledgment of a well regarded senior employee's failure to support its antiunion campaign, came on April 19 when Kim saw Martinez holding the soy sauce bottle.
Respondent Yaohan U.S.A. Corporation is an employer engaged in commerce within the meaning of Section 2(2), (6), and (7) of the Act.
www.nlrb.gov /nlrb/shared_files/decisions/319/319-63.txt   (7726 words)

  
 Yaohan Resource Center - yaohan centre
Yaohan (Japanese: 八百半;; Chinese: 八佰伴) was a Japanese retail group.
Through yaohan dept store a combination of the 1997 Asian financial crisis and the stagnation of the Japanese retail market, the group declared bankruptcy with 161 billion yen of debts.
In March 2000 Yaohan was bought by ÆON Group and changed its name to Maxvalu Tokai.
www.taxgloss.com /Tax-Department_Stores_U_-_Z-/Yaohan.html   (222 words)

  
 AAS Abstracts: Interarea, Library, & Teaching   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-24)
In 1990, Yaohan moved its headquarters from Japan to Hong Kong and began expanding into Mainland China itself, with a target of 1,000 stores by 2010 and 1 trillion yen in sales by 2000.
Yaohan is widely recognized as being at the forefront of Japanese retailing in Greater China, and its chairman, Wada Kazuo, a "guru" of entry into the China market.
The paper analyzes the strategy, structure, process and impact of Yaohan's expansion into the Greater China market in light of efforts by other major Japanese retailers as a way to understand the forces that are shaping the course of Japanese retailing in China and elsewhere in East Asia.
www.aasianst.org /absts/1997abst/inter/i63.htm   (916 words)

  
 Asiaweek.com
Police had to be called in to organize and patrol the lines that had formed by 6 o'clock on Saturday morning and extended for 500 meters.
Yaohan officials reported that the sale was trouble-free, though some witnessed a handful of shoppers switching price tags or slipping on new shoes while surreptitiously leaving their old ones behind.
Yaohan came away with $2.6 million in cash, which will go toward its $65 million debt.
www.asiaweek.com /asiaweek/97/1212/nat6.html   (672 words)

  
 Asiaweek.com
Yaohan International Holdings, owned 19.8% by the Wada family, is also having a bad year.
Yaohan spent an estimated $350 million on its 40 mainland stores, but sales are below expectations.
Yaohan Japan president Wada Mitsumasa, Wada Kazuo's younger brother, says the Japanese restructuring "will not directly affect the businesses in Hong Kong and China." Still, some assets there have been put on the block.
www.asiaweek.com /asiaweek/97/1010/biz1.html   (313 words)

  
 eG Forums -> Yaohan sucks
I've been on this huge Yaohan food fair bandwagon lately, primamrily due to you people, but also due to alot of media chatter, (Steven Wong, the Seattle PI, etc) And I've got to say...you are all nuts.
It was good, bigger than the laksa at Curry House in Yaohan.
I found the broth a little thin, and not quite as flavourful as at Yaohan.
forums.egullet.org /index.php?showtopic=38138   (3117 words)

  
 Shanghai-ed - Pudong Sightseeing
Yaohan Shopping Complex: Said to be Asia's largest department store / shopping complex.
Originally a joint venture between the Japanese Yaohan and Shanghai Number One Dept. store, now fully-owned and run by Number One.
Housed in the Nextage Building at the corner of Zhang Yang Road and Dong Fang Road, the store is one of the main attractions for visitors to Pudong.
www.earnshaw.com /shanghai-ed-india/pudong/p-sight.htm   (328 words)

  
 Short Trips: Thriving Asian suburb offers an exotic escape   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-24)
A Japanese bookstore on the upper level of the Yaohan Centre claims to be the largest of its kind in North America.
One of the best places for incredibly cheap, fresh and plentiful food is the Asian food court in the Yaohan Centre, featuring a dozen different Asian food vendors unlike any in a mall in North America.
Across the parking lot from Yaohan Centre is President Plaza, which includes another large exotic grocery store, dozens more Asian shops and an Asian-influenced version of the Radisson Hotel.
seattlepi.nwsource.com /getaways/165159_shorttrips18.html   (1776 words)

  
 Chicago Anime Guide   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-24)
Yaohan is somewhat similar to an indoor minimall.
Yaohan is in Arlington Heights on the corner of Algonquin and Arlington Heights Road.
Yaohan is a large white building about the size of a large supermarket with a blue roof and 5 foot tall green letters spelling out "Yaohan" on the side.
www.tcp.com /~jly/chicago/chicago.html   (2927 words)

  
 Half-baked talk sparks Hong Kong cake run
Monday sales were nearly three times their normal level, said Joseph Chan, executive director of Yaohan International Caterers, the chain’s owner.
Rumors that the company was in financial trouble began with the closure last week of nine Yaohan department stores owned by the debt-ridden, but separate, Yaohan Hong Kong Corp. The department stores began liquidation proceedings Fri- day.
Yaohan International Caterers is taking steps to solve its image problem by changing its name -- to Hong Kong Catering Management Ltd.
www.recordonline.com /1997/11-26-97/cakerun.htm   (376 words)

  
 The Garreau Group
Forty percent of Yaohan Plaza's business comes from the sixty thousand Japanese working for their global companies in the New York area, he patiently explained.
That is the high-palisades, high-rise Fort Lee area of Yaohan Plaza fame.
The next, opposite midtown via the Lincoln Tunnel, is the Meadowlands, the center of which is the intersection of Route 3 and Interstate 95 at the home of the "New York" Giants and "New York" Jets, as well as the Jersey Nets and Devils.
www.garreau.com /main.cfm?action=chapters&id=3   (16738 words)

  
 NASIOC - Q: Where's the Yaohan?
Yaohan was a Japanese sorporation that went out of business.
No, Yaohan is the name of the building.
The actual supermarket that used to be called Yaohan is now called Osaka Market.
forums.nasioc.com /forums/showthread.php?t=68402   (275 words)

  
 Yaohan snack - Burning Man?
If the car's undesired the winner can claim $30K instead, which would probably only be fifteen after taxes but still a nice piece of free money.
On my way down I paused at the Cupertino Yaohan for a small tray of take-out sushi; at that late hour its price was being marked down.
The toy store within the Yaohan is always overloaded with the current faddish objects from Nihon; now, of course, that's Pokémon; but for some reason they also had a bunch of shiny Sanrio products.
www.wunderland.com /WTS/Rash/green/1999/Aug/31.htm   (778 words)

  
 Vancouver magazine: SHOPSTYLE: Cheap Chic (June 1999)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-24)
At this Japanese store-in-store, we found white spherical lanterns printed with bamboo, cherry blossoms or Chinese characters ($10-$15), beautiful sake and sushi services for less than $20 and ceramic rice bowls in lucky sets of five for $25.
Happiness latern, $15, rice bowls, $25 for set of five, and stone soaps, $6, all from Utsuwa-No-Yakata (Yaohan Centre); Asian herbal ice tea, 69¢, from T and T Supermarket; coloured straws, $2 for 150, from IKEA; variegated laboratory beaker and boiling flask, $20-$40, from Canadian Scientific Glassblowing.
Straw bag, $5, and raffia slides, perfect for summer house guests, $5, from Lucallan; striped cotton fabric, $2.50 to $8 per yard, from Textile Clearance House; woven utility belt, $5, from a selection at 3 Vets; cloth purse with button closure, $25, from Murata Art.
www.vanmag.com /shopstyle/cheapchic.html   (1641 words)

  
 Compare Prices and Read Reviews on New York City at Epinions.com   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-24)
Yaohan Plaza is actually in New Jersey, right across the Hudson River from Manhattan.
Now, once you get to Yaohan Plaza, you have your choice of places to go and browse.
We went out, after looking at our Yaohan Plaza Shuttle Timetable, paid the driver, got on the shuttle and headed back home.
www.epinions.com /trvl-review-26F7-581F623-3818CE92-bd4   (470 words)

  
 Big Fat Site: Fandom - Super Lemon Has Awesome Power   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-24)
I first became a fan of Japanese culture (or, more accurately, Japanese pop culture) when I was involved in the gaming industry and lived my life in search of cool import video games.
Such treks led me to the popular Japanese shopping mall Yaohan (now Mitsuwa) in Chicago, where days were filled with trying to translate Super Famicom (the Japanese Super Nintendo) game boxes and scanning the Japanese video game mags.
Yaohan eventually stopped selling all three candies, and I went for years without such pleasures.
www.bigfatsite.com /_fandom_/2001-01-15-1.asp   (600 words)

  
 UW Oshkosh Club Nippon: Newsletter: November 1999
After a few years, I will probably forget the dollar-yen exchange rate and the price of a subway ride in Fukuoka, but I will remember the theme song from Mitokomon and TV ads for cram schools.
I saw many families with small children, groups of teenagers, and many retired people, who all came to Yaohan to buy food, chat with friends over lunch, or just spare a couple of hours in the familiar atmosphere.
I learned a lot about relationship among people in Japan, got a chance to see what traditional Japanese stores, products, and services are like, and experienced a little bit of Japan.
www.uwosh.edu /organizations/club_nippon/nl-1199.html   (986 words)

  
 Little Tokyo Square: LA's Air-Conditioned Japanese Experience | Asian American Parenting | GOLDSEA
s of September 2004 Little Tokyo Square (formerly Yaohan Plaza) is undergoing a difficult transition that began even before the failing Yaohan supermarket was absorbed into the Mitsuwa chain.
In the early 1990s, as Japan slipped into its 12-year recession, Japanese markets in the U.S. suffered from a massive pullback of expat executives by Japanese corporations.
Yaohan, which once made fat margins on liberally compensated Japanese executives, had to scramble for Corean (Korean) and Chinese American consumers just as Asian American chains were building impressive full-service supermarkets.
goldsea.com /Parenting/Malls/lts.html   (317 words)

  
 Rash Journal Places
Don't know how widespread Ranch 99 is, only seen 'em in California; Yaohan was once common in Japan (although their Home Islands operation went bankrupt) and they not only have stores out here, they've even established a beachhead in New Jersey.
More Yaohan details can be found in this entry.
UPDATE: Yaohan's now out of business in the US, too -- the local store (and perhaps the rest in the domestic chain) is basically unchanged except for a new name, Mitsuwa.
www.wunderland.com /WTS/Rash/green/places.html   (694 words)

  
 19 o' Clock News   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-24)
After E-spot we attempted Yaohan again to grab some food, but they were STILL packed.
We tried Yaohan for a third time, and this time it actually worked.
However, to go along with my stroke of luck for the entire trip, the one restaurant we always go to, the one that nearly made me cry the first time we came up to Canada because I was eating Japanese food not prepared by me for the first time in months, was closed down!
www.nyao.nu /archives/2005_03_01_index.html   (2823 words)

  
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Not only do they have other sources of anime, but they are easily accessible via a shuttle bus which travels to and from Yaohan and the parking lot outside the Southern terminal of the Port Authority.
Their prices are quite reasonable.) There is an information desk in the Yaohan supermarket where you can pick up a bus schedule for their shuttle bus.
Bus schedules are available at the Yaohan information desk in the main supermarket.
www.anime-addict.net /Shopping/shopping.NYC.txt   (2485 words)

  
 Oriental City - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Oriental City was previously a Yaohan Shopping Plaza; after the Yaohan company collapsed, it changed hands.
Many locals and visitors still refer to it as Yaohan Plaza.
The mall contains a large oriental supermarket (SuperMaz), and a food court with a range of foods from different areas of South-East Asia, including Japanese bento boxes, ramen noodles, and assorted Asian desserts.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Oriental_City   (221 words)

  
 Chowhound's Tristate Region Message Board: Re(2): Yaohan Plaza   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-24)
Subject: Re(2): Yaohan Plaza Name: Steven Stern Posted: October 02, 2000 at 23:48:36 In Reply To: Re(1): Yaohan Plaza Posted by Maria Eng on October 02, 2000 at 15:53:17
The signage in that section seemed to indicate they were a separate entity within the supermarket, but I don't remember the name.
Re(3): Yaohan Plaza Maria Eng 01:38:15 10/03/00 (
www.chowhound.com /boards/tristate/messages/2252.html   (242 words)

  
 Reading University Anime Society
This is the newly updated page about Oriental City, known to almost everyone as Yaohan Plaza, the wonderful Japanese shopping centre in North London.
Turn right and Yaohan will be very close.
Larger pictures were taken with an analogue camera and scanned (with thanks to the ISG group!).
www.rdg.ac.uk /StUnion/Anime/yaohan   (541 words)

  
 The Manga Chase: Chicago, Illinois   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-24)
Interesting times: Yaohan Chicago is now known by the name Mitsuwa - I don't know if this is reflected across the United States, but be on the alert.
Mitsuwa (formerly Yaohan) itself is a Japanese supermarket - the Asahiya shop is on the west side of the building, right inside this side entrance.
Special: CD General comments: This is a solid location for manga purchases: it seems to carry a little of everything.
w3.iac.net /~ets/Manga/chicago.html   (198 words)

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