Thread: can I buy Japanese eBooks outside Japan?
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Old 01-27-2018, 08:08 PM   #30
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Originally Posted by AiiroMercury View Post
Unluckily no, it is impossible to use the dictionary function!! but it's strange because after the conversion in epub if you open the book in calibre or in sigil you can read them perfectly but then they don't work on kobo!! until now the only solution that I have found is to convert them in pdf!!
Send the book to the Kobo device as a kepub. My understanding is that the kepub renderer has better support for Japanese.

Otherwise, it could be a font issue. I believe you should be using one of "Kobo Tsukushi Mincho" or "Kobo UD Kakugo", or sideloading your own font. Or make sure the font is embedded in the book.

Note: I'm not an expert on non-English usage one these devices, the above is based on what I see here. One of the people here with more experience will probably pop in soon to correct me.
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