Lawson

The origin of Lawson is Milk Shop Lawson in Ohio state, America which was made by J.J.Lawson in1939. This is the source of Milk can of Lawson's logo. Milk of the shop became popular and started chain stores which sell daily necessities. Now, the company was absorbed so there is no Lawson in America.

In Japan, Daiei cooperated with the company in 1974 and established Daiei Lawson in the follow year. At first a store open in Toyonaka city, Osaka prefecture and started to open mainly in Kinki district. In September 1979 the official name was changed to Lawson Japan, Inc. Originally a joint venture between Japanese consumer retailing giant Daiei and U.S.-based Lawson Co., Lawson was a wholly owned subsidiary of Daiei until 2001, when Mitsubishi corporation became the main shareholder as Daiei's slide began.

Lawson is one of the top convenience store chains in Japan, second only to convenience franchise giant Seven Eleven. To date, Lawson operates in all 47 prefectures of Japan as well as in Shanghai, China. August 2011, Lawson opened their first store in Jakarta, Indonesia.

Lawson has many kinds of store, for example, Lawson satellite, Lawson store 100, Natural Lawson, Natural Lawson selection, Lawson plus, Lawson plus natural select, Lawson hybrid, Postal Lawson, Highway pit by LAWSON, Happy Lawson, LAWSON+toks.
Lawson has own point card named "Ponta card". T-point card used to use in Lawson.