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Originally Posted by mrf
I bought a Kobo Forma recently (in the U.S., from us.kobobooks.com) and logged into it with my Japanese Rakuten account, which has an American credit card on it, and was able to buy books on the Forma.
In my experience with using Japanese stores from overseas, some credit cards work and some don't, seemingly randomly. Rakuten Japan does have actual overseas-address support in their account system at least.
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Good to know. May try again with a different credit card. Just out of curiosity, did you use romaji or katakana for the name on your account and did you use a Japanese address?