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is the acronym for Japan United Stores Company, a chain of "general merchandise stores" (or hypermarket) and the largest of its type in Japan. The various JUSCO companies are subsidiaries of ÆON Co., Ltd.. The JUSCO name was adopted in 1970 from a company originally founded as a kimono silk trader in 1758. Renamed ÆON in 1989, it operates stores throughout Japan under JUSCO and other names and also has a presence in Malaysia, Hong Kong, mainland China (永旺 Yǒng wàng), Carlingford in Australia and Thailand.〔(AEON store list )〕 As of March 1, 2011, all JUSCO and SATY stores under the Aeon umbrella in Japan officially changed their names to AEON while all the JUSCO stores and shopping centres in Malaysia have been fully re-branded into AEON since March 2012. The Hong Kong and Mainland China subsidiaries officially changed their name to AEON on 1 March 2013. ==History== In the 1970s, JUSCO was constituted by Mie Prefecture, Kyoto and Hyogo in Japan named Japan United Stores COmpany. (Shortened form JUSCO). After that, it experienced rapid development. Currently there are about 300 stores in Japan itself and still counting. The group was renamed ''Aeon'' in 1990, but its retail stores were still using the old name ''JUSCO''. In late 2010 AEON announced that all existing JUSCO stores in Japan would gradually be renamed AEON. The re-branding exercise began in March 2011 and was complete by the end of that year. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「JUSCO」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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