All about japanese bookstores

Japanese writer Shinobu Yoshii's work in Chinese is a good guide to Tokyo's iconic shops, and could also help aspiring entrepreneurs on the mainland. Yang Yang reports.

Referring to Japanese writer Shinobu Yoshii's book Tokyo's Constant Booksellers published in 2016, Liu Suli, the founder of the famous All Sages Bookstore near Peking University once said, it is one of the two key books about the bookstore business in China, because "it showcases bookstores in an advanced society which may be how we look in 15 years, and lets us understand the content and essence of bookstores".

The other book he referred to is Zhong Fangling's My Love Affair with Bookstores first published in 1999, from which Liu learned how to set up a bookstore.