I’m wondering about this bit. Is it an user name? Was an item supposed to be shipped by Amazon or by somebody else?
Okay, I found this offer in the used section. So ★良品倉庫★ is a third-party seller. I think that’s the root of the problem here.
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Probably. For reference, you can basically never ship from a third party seller to the U.S., so it wouldn’t surprise me if it sometimes doesn’t work when shipping to other countries as well.
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Yeah it’s been hit and miss for me with those. Usually you get a notice from Amazon and it won’t let you actually order those items, though. Maybe the seller put some wrong info about where they’ll ship, or maybe didn’t put any and that’s why it went through instead. 
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Key, thank you everyone! Didn’t know this about third party sellers from JP. At least in Germany, I think it’s very common, that private people or smaller book stores sell their residual books via Amazon, so I didn’t think about it too much.
~T 
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Your Name Home Thread is up:
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That’s a really cool book. I might try and pick up a copy
My current reading is
夏子の酒 ー A really accessible Manga series about a woman who returns home to run the family sake brewery after her brother dies. Would be a good intermediate level read.
日本酒の科学 ー Dense and not very accessible book on the science of sake brewing, I have, however, developed a Kimoto home brewing recipe from it and I currently have that bubbling away
甘酒・塩麹・酒粕 ベストレシピ ー Okay, this is a cookbook, but a really good one very delicious recipes using sake making by products
I’ve been avoiding the WK forums for a while, too much other stuff going on, but I’m so close to finishing WK I may return to the reading group when I hit level 60.
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Thought women weren’t allowed to enter a sake brewery, though.
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Huh! Didn’t know that. Weren’t or aren’t?
Did some more research into it (i.e. I googled it instead of speaking from memory). At the very beginning, sake-making was seen as a task for women. Kuchikami-zake, in particular, was made by women. In the 1600s, however, women came to be seen as unclean - there was an old wives husbands tale which said that if a woman entered a brewery, the sake would spoil. Women are gradually coming back to the industry now, though (modernisation!), but of the 1500+ licensed sake breweries in Japan, fewer than 50 are run by women.
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though sake brewing has let in women, in sumo rings women are still forbidden entry. last year there was a piece in the news about a sumo wrestler who had a heart attack or something while in the ring and a woman from the audience entered the ring to attend to him and everyone got into a tizzy about it after.
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i’m definitely going to read the manga! i love reading beautiful cookbooks too (and i love seeing pictures of other people’s books 
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Miho Imada (pictured above)is an absolute legend who brews some truly amazing sake. She’s also revived a local Hiroshima rice strain which she likes to boast grows taller than she does (Hattanso).
Other female brewers of note are Rumiko Moriki who took over her family’s brewery around the Natsuko No Sake manga came out. She took a lot of encouragement from the manga. Oze Akira who drew the manga drew labels for Rumiko. She’s also a tremendous enthusiast for sake who always has time for fellow enthusiasts and keeper of an irascible frog glove puppet.
Tsuji Maiko of Tsuji Honten, brewer of gozenshu, and Mukai Kuniko of Mukai Shuzou are also prodigious talents.
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wow, that’s fascinating! i’m sure you’ve read oishinbo? one of the collected volumes is about sake…
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I think that was the first sake (or food) related manga I read. I’ve got both Japanese and English versions of the Sake one which is great for parallel reading. The fish one is really interesting as well, especially if you want to know all the ways sushi can kill you but doesn’t because to the care taken with raw fish.
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Currently the first two volumes of ヨコハマ買い出し紀行 are free to keep on Bookwalker (until Feb 11th) and probably also elsewhere (didn’t check).
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On BookLive as well! Hoora!
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@NicoleRauch Checking was a little bit later than I thought, but the above is correct.
With your method of 3 strikes, the only difference is that all three get kicked.
By setting the threshold at 20%, there’s no difference between our two methods except for ポーション.
Now I’m a bit confused…
“my method” vs. “your method” refers to three strikes overall vs. three strikes in a row? By now I’m convinced that your method is better then because it better reflects the most recent developments. Given the fluctuation of participants it should only be fair that previous lack of interest can be overridden by new participants, and it should not matter too much if one recent poll is a bit weak. So let’s roll with your method then.
What I’m not clear on is what “threshold at 20%” implies 
If a book gets 20%, is it in or out?
I have added a table to the OP (and added the poll percentages for this clarification’s sake) so there you can see that ポーション頼みで生き延びます and もやしもん are either both in or both out - depending on what 20% means.
While it’s totally clear that １リットルの涙 難病と闘い続ける少女亜也の日記 is out.
If you are ok with the table, I would backfill it with the already removed entries to get to a consistent format.
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