Japan's number-one bookstore Kinokuniya's CEO Matsubara Osamu saw these needs and realized that Japan's bookstores had reached an impasse, so he began dealing in foreign books.
日本書店第一品牌紀伊國屋的執行長松原治觀察到這些需求，也瞭解當時日本書店發展的瓶頸，便開始接觸外文書。