Despite flaws, Rakuten is 1-0 against Amazon in Japan's e-book wars | The Japan TimesRakuten, Japan’s largest online shopping mall — and a head-to-head rival of Amazon Japan that also hopes to expand its business globally — launched its first e-book reader, the Rakuten Kobo Touch, on July 19, getting the jump on the long anticipated Japanese release of Amazon’s Kindle. On June 26 — the very same day Amazon Japan officially announced on its website that its Kindle e-book reader was
