Japan’s fast fashion brand Uniqlo recently set up a secondhand pop-up store in Tokyo. The10-day pop-up in the Harajuku district sells secondhand clothes at one-third of their original price.
Alongside Fast Retailing-owned Uniqlo, garment specialist 2nd Street has expanded to 800 stores across Japan.
Drive by the popular Japanese platform Mercri, online fashion sales in Japan have also grown by one third in value terms.
According to the Ministry of the Environment, Japan reuses or recycles 34 per cent of discarded clothing.
Japan’s secondhand segment represents less than 6 per cent of the $75 billion market, as per an analysis by Japan Consuming, a market research firm.
