Marui Co. , Ltd. (株式会社丸井 Kabushiki-gaisha Marui?) (TYO: 8252) is a Japanese retail company which operates a chain of department stores in Tokyo. The, or TSE, located in Tokyo, Japan, is the second largest Stock exchange market in the world by market value second only to the New York Stock For a topic outline on this subject see List of basic Japan topics. A department store is a Retail establishment which specializes in selling a wide range of products without a single predominant merchandise line. officially, is one of the 47 prefectures of Japan and located on the eastern side of the main island Honshū. They are best known for their women's fashion and accessories.
In 2003–4 the company generated US$2. The United States dollar ( sign: $; code: USD) is the unit of Currency of the United States; it has also been 75 billion in revenues. Its president is Tadao Aoi. Tadao Aoi is the president of Marui CO Ltd a chain of department stores and restaurants based in Tokyo, Japan
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The company's name (丸井) is a combination of the name of its predecessor's parent company "Maru-ni" (丸二) and the name of its president "Ao-i" (青井). The name of the department store is customarily written in Japanese as "マルイ", in katakana lettering. is a Japanese Syllabary, one component of the Japanese writing system along with Hiragana, Kanji, and in some cases the Latin alphabet
The department store's famously ambiguous present-day logo is a symbol resembling "○I○I", and read "marui". The Japanese symbol "○" (not to be confused with the Roman alphabet "O" or "o") is read "maru", meaning "circle" or "zero". The symbol "I" ostensibly represents the numeral "1", which can be read "i" in Japanese (note that the Roman alphabet letter "I" is also the Romanized representation of the Japanese syllable "い", a third visual pun). In Linguistics, romanization (or latinization, also spelled romanisation or latinisation) is the representation of a Word or
Despite being read as numerals, the symbol is written "OIOI" in Roman alphabet letters on the company's website, though the address of the website itself is "www. 0101. co. jp". The "○I" in the logo is repeated, partly for aesthetics and also as an inference to the "0101" ending of the phone number all Marui department stores. [1]
In December 2007, Marui co. , Ltd launched an international shopping and information website, maruione. jp. The site operates in Japanese, English and French. The shopping site offers Japanese fashion and traditional goods while their LiveJ information site provides information on fashion, culture and visual kei music. Japanese Street Fashion first started in the middle of the 19th Century after Japan started to portray western fashion in their culture refers to a movement among Japanese musicians, that is characterized by the use of eccentric sometimes flamboyant looks