Hmm you know I might be misremembering…I know there were other digital bookstores that I couldn’t use a US card with, but maybe it wasn’t Amazon (I do after all use my US card to buy other things from them). For whatever reason I can’t buy anything on Kindle though. Everything shows up as “Not currently available” if I’m logged in.
You have to set up a Japan address and place a few orders with a Japan IP. Then it lets you do whatever you want.
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Nice, I’ll give that a shot! I’m happy with Honto for manga but novels are kind of a pain since you can only read them in the app.
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Just in case other people read this thread, I haven’t had problems with my French credit card on Amazon.co.jp. Like @seanblue wrote above, I just needed to set up a Japanese forwarding address, and set my Kindle region to Japan (and I use a VPN sometimes to avoid getting blocked).
Thank you, I’m in Costa Rica. My cards usually work fine but I will check with the bank just in case.
Once you are performing the payment, the billing address and the rest should be inserted in English or Japanese?
If I already have a US Amazon account, does this mean that I would need to use another email for the Japanese Amazon account?
Also: what physical address could work?
Yes it’s better to create a separate account for Amazon Japan, I read that people can have issues otherwise.
You can set up a real forwarding address for free on tenso.com, and there’s a guide on their website for how to enter the address correctly on Amazon.
You probably don’t need to bother checking with your bank to see if your card will work - if your credit card doesn’t work, you’ll get an error when you try to pay at checkout, so it will be obvious at that point.
There’s a detailed guide somewhere on these forums for purchasing ebooks on different platforms, Amazon Kindle included. I’m on my phone now though so it’s a bit hard to search for it
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Quick question: I got my japanese address in tenso.com. It seems like I have to submit my ID for further things, but, do I need to do this if I just want to put the address in Amazon.jp?
Nope I don’t think so, an address should have been created when you signed up (for free). For digital content you won’t be physically shipping anything anyway.
It’s a real postal forwarding service though, so maybe you need to do that if you do want to physically ship stuff to yourself via them - like when an item is only available for delivery within Japan.
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Just in case, there is a guide specifically for digital purchases:
https://community.wanikani.com/t/buying-digital-japanese-books/10603/151
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This is great, thank you so much!
Exactly, that’s the guide I mentioned but couldn’t find in one of the posts above! 
I used this same one to get set up on Amazon 
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It also looks like it’s piracy. It’s highly doubtful that, as just one example, either Viz or their parent Shueisha has given that site permission to be publishing Dragon Ball.
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