www.debito.org: Info on how to order HANDBOOK for Newcomers, Migrants and Immigrants to Japan (Akashi Shoten Inc 2008)

"HANDBOOK FOR NEWCOMERS, MIGRANTS, AND IMMIGRANTS TO JAPAN"
ISBN: 978-4-7503-2741-9
Authors: HIGUCHI Akira and ARUDOU Debito
Languages: English and Japanese
Publisher: Akashi Shoten Inc., Tokyo
On sale from March 15, 2008
372 Pages. Price: 2300 yen (2415 yen after tax)
Goal: To help non-Japanese entrants become residents and immigrants
Topics: Securing stable visas, Establishing businesses and secure jobs, Resolving legal problems, Planning for the future through to death...
More on the contents of HANDBOOK here.
Excerpt of HANDBOOK on JAPAN FOCUS here.

If you would like to order a copy of HANDBOOK, you have several options:
DOMESTIC (within Japan)

1) Order directly from the publisher, Akashi Shoten Inc.
2) Print up, fill out, and fax them a copy of one of the following flyers (English, Japanese):

3) Or print up the above flyer and take it to your nearest bookstore.
4) You can also try ordering from Amazon.co.jp (NOT Amazon.com), but they seem to have an uncanny inability to keep Handbook or my other books in stock. I have already notified my publisher of this several times...
5) Or if you want an autographed copy from one of the authors, you can order from me directly, paying via Paypal, see below:

INTERNATIONAL
If you are outside of Japan and uncertain of how distribution networks will get you a book published overseas (try ordering through your local bookstore, your educational institution or library, or through publisher Akashi Shoten Inc.), then please feel free to order from me directly and pay via Paypal. You will be charged a flat rate for postage anywhere in the world of 1000 yen. (2300 yen for the book, plus 1000 yen postage, total 3300 yen--converted at current exchange rates by Paypal). Arudou Debito will autograph and put your copy in the mail usually within 24 hours.

TOKYO: Good Day Books Ebisu, Tower Records Shibuya 7F, Aoyama Book Center near Roppongi Station, Aoi Bookstore near Roppongi Station, Aoyama Book Center Roppongi Hills, Tsutaya Roppongi Hills (gave me my biggest order--30 books!), Tokyo University Bookstore, Maruzen Honten Marunouchi, Yaesu Book Center 8F near Tokyo Station East Exit, Dan Books Hamamatsu-Cho, Kinokuniya Shinjuku Honten, Kinokuniya Shinjuku Minami-Ten, Junkudo Ikebukuro, Aoyama Book Center Honten Omotesando, Shibuya Book 1st, Blue Parrot Books Takadanobaba.

OSAKA: Namba Book 1st, OCAT Maruzen 5F, Sanseido Shinsaibashi Sogo Dept 12F, Kinokuniya Umeda by BIG MAN, Asahiya Books Umeda 7F.

KOBE: Foreign Buyers Club (FBC) Rokko Island

OKAYAMA: Ekimae "Happy" (formely Daiei) Dept. Store 5F Hon no Mori no Seruba

SENDAI: Maruzen, Junkudo (Loft 7F), Junkudo (I-Beans Bldg)

SAPPORO: Sanseido Daimaru Department Store 8F, Kinokuniya Sapporo Eki, Coach and Four Shinkawa, Coach and Four Munich Bridge, Asahiya Shoten Sapporo Eki, Atene Shoten Eki Mae Doori.

SHIN CHITOSE AIRPORT (the main Hokkaido airport): Bunkyodo 1F, Kinokuniya 2F

FUKUOKA: Kinokuniya Hakata Eki

CORPORATE LINKS: Tokyo's top investment bank has just made HANDBOOK FOR NEWCOMERS, MIGRANTS, AND IMMIGRANTS standard reading for all of its expatriate staff in or arriving in Japan, according to Ben Goodyear, head of IT there.

ONLINE: jbox.com and Amazon.co.jp (NOT Amazon.com), publisher Akashi Shoten Inc. and of course copies autographed by Arudou Debito available directly through Debito.org.

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