Fashion retailer Fast Retailing has revealed plans to have opened 200 stores for its low-cost casualwear brand g.u. in Japan by 2013.

The company - which owns Uniqlo - plans to open 25 shops, to bring its total number of stores to about 120, by the end of May.
It will launch a ‘g.u. Kawasaki Dice Store’ in Tokyo this week - its largest g.u. store to date, at 9,260 sq ft.