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I haven't had much success buying anything from the Rakuten's Japanese site. However, I seem to recall reading that others have, using a VPN to make it look like they were in Japan.
Even when I was in Japan a couple years back, I didn't have much success. I set up a Japanese gmail account. Then I did a factory reset of my Kobo Aura, changed my affiliate, and set up an account using my Japanese gmail account. Used my sister-in-law's address and phone number in Japan. Everything seemed fine... until I went to purchase a book. I suspect the problem was my credit card which is from a Canadian financial institution.
However, I did manage to get the Harry Potter series in Japanese from the Canadian Kobo site. It's a pleasure to read on the Kobo and will keep me busy for a while yet.
Hopefully, they will eventually get a better selection of Japanese books on the Canadian Kobo website. Right now the selection is extremely limited.
What would be ideal would be if my public library started offering books in Japanese. They offer a good selection of books in Chinese which is great, but none, besides language learning material, in Japanese the last time I looked.
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