Uniqlo

Oh, my. It doesn't sound Japanese, but it's a Japanese... thing.

A while back a friend of mine mentioned it briefly in an email and I had absolutely no idea what it was, but I didn't ask either. :P [I'd suspected that it would make myself appear considerately stupid, since he said it like it was something very well-known and normal for people to know about...]

Today I decided to google it, and discovered that it was a retail (?) company!
And they also operate in Thailand, it seems, something that I'm not really surprised in - I mean, look; we get translated anime, manga, light novels, drama series, and even drama CDs from Japan, Korea, China and even Taiwan!! XD
I'd expect no less, from our bond with the other East Asian countries!

And I'd expect no less from myself to never have heard of such a company, either. Simply because I have no interest in the fashion industry... and I don't think I have time for such an unimportant interest, either...