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Books Kinokuniya (紀伊國屋書店, Kinokuniya Shoten) is a Japanese bookstore chain operated by Kinokuniya Company Ltd. (株式会社紀伊國屋書店, Kabushiki-gaisha Kinokuniya Shoten), founded in 1927, with its first store located in Shinjuku, Tokyo, Japan. Its name translates to "Bookstore of Kii Province".
The Chicago area store is at 100 E. Algonquin Road in Arlington Heights, Illinois—one of a number of Japanese businesses in Arlington Heights—and opened in 1991. The store is open 365 days a year [ 9 ] from 9 am to 8 pm. Mitsuwa is the largest [ 10 ] Japanese marketplace in the Midwestern US .
This is a list of bookstore chains with brick-and-mortar locations. In the United Kingdom and many parts of the English speaking world, they are known as "Bookshops" and "newsagents". In American English , they are called "bookstores", or sometimes "newsstands", as they also usually carry newspapers and magazines.
Kinokuniya was founded in 1910 (Meiji 43) as a high-end fruit store in Tokyo. Masui Norio, who helped out in the family business, closed the Aoyama fruit store after the material control orders during the Pacific War meant that he could no longer sell high-end fruit, and rebuilt it as a fruit and vegetable store after the war in 1949.
Osamu Matsubara (松原 治, Matsubara Osamu, October 7, 1917 – January 3, 2012) was a Japanese businessman, business executive, and former chairman and CEO of Books Kinokuniya. [ 1 ] Matsubara was President of Kinokuniya Company Ltd., the parent company of Books Kinokuniya, from October 1980 to November 2002. [ 2 ]
Yu & Me Books is an independent bookstore in Chinatown, Manhattan.The only bookstore in New York City owned by an Asian American woman, the bookstore sells books relevant to the Asian American diaspora and has hosted events with authors like Ocean Vuong, Sayaka Murata, and Hua Hsu.
The Lit. Bar is an independent book store in the Mott Haven section of the Bronx in New York City, U.S. The store is owned by Bronx native Noëlle Santos, who opened it after being alarmed when she read in 2014 that a Barnes & Noble near Co-op City was going to close: while Manhattan had 90 book stores, the Barnes & Noble branch was the only book store in the Bronx. [1]
I think there's still a bookstore there, but it's no longer Kinokuniya. Franzeska ( talk ) 17:22, 11 September 2008 (UTC) [ reply ] Correct location of new Manhattan branch store?