Buy at Rakuten Japan and get them delivered by Sere-nde?
Posted by: kirin on 
Aug 11th, 2009 | 
Filed under: Something Interesting
There are voices from my blog readers that they want to buy Decotti or any other kawaii goods from Japan just like I enjoy shopping in Japan. But unfortunately there are several reasons that make it hard for foreigners to shop from Japan.
1)Most of Japanese shops do not ship outside Japan.
2)Some shops do not accept credit cards issued outside Japan.
3)Many shops have only Japanese pages without English ones, and your registration is also required in Japanese.
It sounds like we are so closed against the world even today as internet almost ignores borders, and it looks like nothing has been so much changed since 1639 national isolation from other nations. (You may understand what I am speaking of, if you learned Japanese history.)
Then people those who are non-Japanese and living outside Japan without a credit card that is issued inside Japan should give up the opportunity to shop from Japanese online stores?
I’d say no. How could we such close-minded? There are companies which help such incompatibility.
1)Sere-nde
I have a banner of Sere-nde in the sidebar (the red one under Rakuten) so you can come back when you want to.
I’m sorry I cannot write a review because I am a Japanese resident who do not need such service. Do you feel like making use of their services? If yes, what is your next problem? Would you like kawaii Japanese online shops info. from me, for example? Would you like to improve your Japanese skills more so that you can understand what’s in Japanese webpages?
You can also check out Rakuten shopping in English, which I have a banner in the sidebar above Sere-nde banner, and you can browse Japanese online shops roughly. I say roughly because Rakuten international service picks up only stores that can ship outside. In that sense, it’s different from Rakuten store in Japan.
I found a cute link to Rakuten Japan. (This is the one Japanese people use for shopping.) We like cuteness everywhere! haha!! XD
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August 11th, 2009 at 3:03 pm
This sounds good to me. I like Japanese stuffs! Thanks for sharing
August 11th, 2009 at 3:38 pm
As a frequent shopper of Japanese goods, I'm more incline to use Ooh Japan than the other two. Simply, that they will work w/ the vendor for you, as opposed to the other ones, you have to coordinate between the vendor and the shipping service. Call me lazy or spoil, since all the online shops here does everything at once, I'm more likely to go w/ someone that does the leg work of merchandise for me.
Of course, I buy from Rakuten too, I just copy and paste the site and just Google translate so I know what I"m looking at or the description of the product.
August 11th, 2009 at 3:52 pm
Hi Kirin! I didn't know about these shopping services – that's so cool~! I was looking through all three, and Sere-nde is the most confusing for me, so I don't think I'll use them. DankeDanke had easy to follow step-by-step instructions, and more payment options, but Ooh!Japan seems like it may be the easiest to use, since you only have to send them the URL of the item you want, and they basically take care of the rest (send you the bill via paypal, with the total for shipping and commission). But, if people still don't want to buy through this, decoden stuff can be found on Etsy and who knows what else. ^-^ Thank you for posting about these! I would love to see some kawaii online shops, and I'd also like to learn more Japanese.
August 12th, 2009 at 7:13 am
Hello Kirin, Nice idea. You should read my last blog post, it's particularly designed for you. I answered the questions you asked me in your comment. Hope it's what you were looking for.
August 12th, 2009 at 12:18 pm
Hi Jacob, thanks for your visit and comment. I visited yr site but was not sure where to comment. I pressed the comment button but no comment screen appeared to me…sorry I'm tech challenging person…(-_-; )
August 12th, 2009 at 12:20 pm
Thank you for sharing your experience. You are very smart person, you make use of Google translate and can enjoy shopping from Rakuten! Wow! Sounds great!
August 12th, 2009 at 12:27 pm
I'm wondering if I can make some Japanese videos for my blog readers. But there are already so many professional Japanese tutorials by podcast or video programs, and I wonder how I can make mine different from others. If I make free Japanese videos and share them with you, what do you want to learn? Japanese slang? How native Japanese speakers would speak? Would love to hear your opinion if there's any…
August 12th, 2009 at 12:28 pm
Thanks Ben! ^ ^
August 13th, 2009 at 5:06 pm
I'd want to learn how native Japanese speakers speak, and some slang, too. I know that the sentence structure is different than in the west, and I only know the basic subject, object, verb equation, so I'd like to learn more of the grammar rules. What are common phrases? How formal should one be? I'd like to know! ^-^
August 15th, 2009 at 4:28 am
Thank you for your get back to me! I may try to make the video from which you feel as if you were in Japan.
Not all of you can come to Japan to study the language. So I think I can provide you with virtual reality by using Youtube and my environment (Japan) . :p I hope I can make sothing that pleases you.
August 15th, 2009 at 5:16 am
Hi Kirin, I have often been frustrated because so many of the kawaii things I love I cannot get directly from Japan, so it is good to know that there are services that can help. I am always looking to buy kawaii things that are a good value so it helps to shop around.
As for learning Japanese – I would love to learn more – well, actually ANY since the only Japanese I have learned is from Japanese films and TV shows – oh and from cooking. But I know nothing about sentence structure or grammatical rules etc.
At one point I was going to try to learn Mandarin but I just didn't have the fortitude. I'll just go to Hong Kong – I know they speak English there!
I know many Japanese do not speak English though so I must learn before I go to Japan. I still have time since I will need to save so much money for shopping at all the great toy stores!
August 16th, 2009 at 3:03 am
There are some people who say they can buy at http://www.jbox.com cheaper.
As for Japanese lessons, there are many online free lessons that teach you grammar and structural rules. These people maybe good at things like that because that's the way they learned it. But how about me? I never ever care about structure when I use Japanese because that's my mother tongue. I can speak without thinking about its grammar. In that way I may not good at teaching you grammatical things, and people who leaned Japanese as a second language would do a better job than I do, I guess…(>_<;) So I'll try to find out something unique, something right from Japan, and by a native Japanese speaker.
Thank you for your opinion.
April 26th, 2010 at 5:56 am
http://www.japan-dress.com
these shopping services – that's so cool
April 28th, 2010 at 1:52 pm
Something's weird with their Japanese….ah they are from China! But thanks for sharing!
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