A Starbucks cafe at Dazaifu Tenman-gū shrine in Fukuoka
Howard Schultz, the CEO of Starbucks on May 10th in Tokyo announced that the number of cafe in Japan will top 1,000 in 2013.
Japan would be the first region for the coffee chain to have more than 1,000 cafes except North America.
It opened the first cafe at Ginza, Tokyo in 1996, and had been managing 985 cafes across the nation at the end of this March. It plans to open approximately 65 more till the end of the next March.
スターバックス、年内に日本で１千店突破へ 北米以外では初 ―SankeiBiz
http://www.sankeibiz.jp/business/news/130510/bsd1305101913009-n1.htm
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