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August 11, 2004
Kinokuniya dotcom observations
I've just noticed that Kinokuniya's New York site is all in Japanese - indeed, all their US BookWeb location sites (East Coast and West Coast) are entirely in Japanese.
Whereas if you go to their various other country locations (S'pore, M'sia, Thailand, Oz) they're all in English. (Searching for Japanese books brings up Japanese results, though.) Most puzzling. I guess the US stores are more tightly targeted at a Japanese-reading audience.
A note for those visiting the Rockefeller Center Kinokuniya in NY - the manga is UPSTAIRS. I wasted a good half-hour searching for the manga section (having only a precious hour before closing time!!!) before finally noticing the stairs. I suppose it's so that grown-ups can browse the manga without getting funny looks. 
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Posted by Innocent Sidekick of Evil at August 11, 2004 09:47 AM | Posted to Miscellaneous
