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Around the routes sits the week in Japan. Every few hours the site reads the Japanese city and food press and the English-language desks in Tokyo, Kyoto, Osaka and Fukuoka, and puts the places they name on one map. Headlines stay in the language they were written in, every story links to its source, and we quote no more than a line.

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Tons of used books in Japan being bought up by someone or something

September 28

The purchasers are unknown, so let’s call them “anonymous individuals” or “AI” for short . There is perhaps no better example of an independent business than the neighborhood used bookstore.

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