{"id":17810,"date":"2012-07-02T15:47:02","date_gmt":"2012-07-02T06:47:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/asiajin.com\/blog\/?p=17810"},"modified":"2012-07-02T15:47:02","modified_gmt":"2012-07-02T06:47:02","slug":"rakuten-announced-kobo-touch-for-japan-priced-7980-yenus99","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/asiajin.com\/blog\/2012\/07\/rakuten-announced-kobo-touch-for-japan-priced-7980-yenus99\/","title":{"rendered":"Rakuten Announced Kobo Touch For Japan, Priced 7980 Yen(US$99)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/kobo.rakuten.co.jp\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/img.asiajin.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/rakuten-kobo-logo.png\" alt=\"\" title=\"rakuten-kobo-logo\" width=\"282\" height=\"243\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-17817\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nRakuten is having a press conference now, just announced that they release <a href=\"http:\/\/kobo.rakuten.co.jp\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Kobo Touch e-book reader for Japanese market<\/a>, with a price 7,980 yen ($US 99).<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/img.asiajin.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/rakuten-kobo-press-conference-mikitani-and-kobo-1.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/img.asiajin.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/rakuten-kobo-press-conference-mikitani-and-kobo-1-600x448.png\" alt=\"\" title=\"rakuten-kobo-press-conference-mikitani-and-kobo-1\" width=\"600\" height=\"448\" class=\"alignright size-large wp-image-17811\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/asiajin.com\/blog\/2012\/06\/26\/rakuten-launches-teaser-site-for-kobo-e-book-reader-in-japan\/\">Rakuten<\/a>, and its e-commerce\/e-book rival <a href=\"http:\/\/asiajin.com\/blog\/2012\/06\/26\/amazon-japan-preannounces-kindle-coming-soon\/\">Amazon<\/a> announced their e-book readers coming to Japan on the last Tuesday, June 26th.<br \/>\nThe sales will start on July 19, pre-order starts today July 2.<br \/>\nRakuten Kobo supports rubi(readings in katakana) and vertical text display for Japanese market.<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/img.asiajin.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/rakuten-kobo.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/img.asiajin.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/rakuten-kobo.png\" alt=\"\" title=\"rakuten-kobo\" width=\"457\" height=\"661\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-17815\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Rakuten is having a press conference now, just announced that they release Kobo Touch e-book reader for Japanese market, with a price 7,980 yen ($US 99). Rakuten, and its e-commerce\/e-book rival Amazon announced their e-book readers coming to Japan on the last Tuesday, June 26th. The sales will start on July 19, pre-order starts today&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/asiajin.com\/blog\/2012\/07\/rakuten-announced-kobo-touch-for-japan-priced-7980-yenus99\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Rakuten Announced Kobo Touch For Japan, Priced 7980 Yen(US$99)<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":17815,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[17],"tags":[1003,1988,3047,3051],"class_list":["post-17810","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-japan","tag-e-book","tag-kobo","tag-rakuten","tag-rakuten-kobo","entry"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/asiajin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17810","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/asiajin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/asiajin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/asiajin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/asiajin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17810"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/asiajin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17810\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/asiajin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/asiajin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17810"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/asiajin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17810"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/asiajin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17810"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}