According to the this week’s From Our Own Correspondent (BBC Radio) it’s also big in France, where the other similarity is the popularity of comics-something you can easily finish in one visit. Once people get into the habit of doing it with comics, I guess it just spreads. Why the shops allow it, however, is still a mystery…
Why is tachiyomi (reading standing up in a bookshop or convenience store) such a big thing in Japan?
February 21, 2008 at 12:34 am (Japan FAQs and SAQs, Japan and France, Japanese comics (manga), Japanese freetime and hobbies, Japanese literature, Konbini (Japanese convenience stores))
An Accidental Tourist in Japan’s Uncanny Valley << Monkey Goggles said,
November 4, 2009 at 7:18 am
[...] was a book store I liked to stop at on my way home from work to engage in the Japanese pastime of tachiyomi, standing and reading. Unlike in America, in Japan this is considered a perfectly acceptable [...]