Come As You Are A shopper at the grand opening of Line’s store in Tokyo’s Harajuku neighborhood who came dressed as Brown the bear, a Line sticker star This new store, called Line Friends, is different, to put it mildly. For one thing, it’s not owned by a retailer but by a social media company called Line, which in less than four years has become Japan’s hottest phenomenon by offering an app that
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