On a related note, I am ever grateful that I still have my Amazon.co.jp account and a Japanese kindle / Japanese credit card, and a VPN for Amazon Prime Japan.

On a related note, I am ever grateful that I still have my Amazon.co.jp account and a Japanese kindle / Japanese credit card, and a VPN for Amazon Prime Japan. The situation for legal product in foreign languages has barely improved in Canada. When I was studying Japanese in the early 2000s, you were basically locked into ridiculous 60s-80s era material by Tuttle Publishing. The only way to be culturally fluent was Aozora Bunko and piracy - which is probably why it is less common to find 40+ year olds in the west who are fluent non-Japanese Japanese speakers. Considering the near zero cost of publishing ebooks, you'd think some enterprising Japanese company would sell their books abroad for the same price as in Japan, but I guess that's not happening.