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From: Declan Murphy <declan_murphy@hotmail.com>
Newsgroups: fj.life.in-japan,soc.culture.japan
Subject: Re: Foreign book wholesaler Yohan bankrupt
Date: Wed, 13 Aug 2008 02:29:45 -0700 (PDT)
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On Aug 10, 10:23=A0am, Declan Murphy <declan_mur...@hotmail.com> wrote:
> On Aug 9, 11:40=A0am, 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 ha=
s
> > > a fair amount of "getting just desserts" attached to it.
>
> > Well, it _is_ Debito and it is doubtful he lives in the same Japan as
> > the rest of us anyway. =A0There 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."
>
> > > Practices like Yohan's are illegal in Australia. A pity Japan doesn't
> > > have real trade-practices/restraint of trade laws.
>
> > Just about all publishing runs that way to one extent or another. =A0Yo=
han
> > was just more ruthless than most, eventually forcing Tower Records to
> > toe their line, too. =A0Amazon nailed the lid on their coffin in record
> > time and the death was justified.
>
> <rejoice>Dancing on their grave. Overcharging monopolistic bastards.</
> rejoice>
>
> 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.