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Originally Posted by crane3
I consider that Japan is a very "hi-tech" country but still having so many bookstores just boggles my mind where people are still reading printed books & buying them. But they still have unvandalized phone booths.
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Japan's not as high tech as you might think. I was there for three weeks last year and traveled all over, from Tokyo to Sapporo to Kyoto and Nagoya. Wi-fi is scarce and for most places, cash is king. Debit cards are not common. I still have something like $40 worth of yen in my bag.
I did go to a couple of Japanese book stores. Neat to browse, though of course I couldn't read a thing. I remember Stephen King's It was divided into three books. Their books looked very nice, what we would call a mass market paperback still comes with a dust jacket.
Here's one of the covers I remember seeing for It.
