Osaka is not even Japan’s second city. But its biggest bookstore dwarfs anything in New York, Los Angeles, or, indeed, Chicago. Like all Japanese cities, Osaka is filled with the most modern, and ...
Japanese fans of Haruki Murakami will probably have to go to an actual bookstore to get the author’s new essay collection. The retail chain Books Kinokuniya is buying 90% of the first print run of ...
To step into Books Kinokuniya is to enter a world of pure delight. One wall is lined with shelves of the cutest, most huggable stuffed animals you’ve ever seen. Another features rows of slick-looking ...