On Aug 10, 10:23 am, Declan Murphy <declan_mur...@hotmail.com> wrote:
> On Aug 9, 11:40 am, CL <flot...@yahoo.com> wrote:
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> > Jim Breen wrote:
> > > As Debito's blog makes clear, it's not altogether a bad thing, and has
> > > a fair amount of "getting just desserts" attached to it.
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> > Well, it _is_ Debito and it is doubtful he lives in the same Japan as
> > the rest of us anyway.  There was nothing new in his blog for anyone who
> > has actually studied how Japan works and not gotten all of their
> > information on the country from watching "Itsumo San-chome no Yuhi."
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> > > Practices like Yohan's are illegal in Australia. A pity Japan doesn't
> > > have real trade-practices/restraint of trade laws.
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> > Just about all publishing runs that way to one extent or another.  Yohan
> > was just more ruthless than most, eventually forcing Tower Records to
> > toe their line, too.  Amazon nailed the lid on their coffin in record
> > time and the death was justified.
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> <rejoice>Dancing on their grave. Overcharging monopolistic bastards.</
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> I will miss (assuming it doesn't re-open if another form) the Random
> Walk store in Kyoto. It was about 20 metres from a good ukiyoe print
> and antique shop, and about 40 metres from a 2F restaurant with a
> reasonably wide range of belgian brews. I never found it difficult to
> spend a full afternoon moving less than 100 metres or thereabouts.

Just walked into the Kiinokuniya next to Sapporo Stn and wandered over
to the yousho section for a gander. I don't know how close the
relationship between the two companies was, but it doesn't seem to
have made any obvious difference to the shelves. Not yet at least.