1. Shipping limitations of many online stores, foreign customers can't get the goods directly shipped to their country.
2. Transit safety and insurance options offered by some providers.
3. The price of items from original retailers is cheaper.
4. Growing income per capital and increasing interest in exclusive and unique goods in many developed countries.
1. Local traditional goods in Japan have special characteristics and popular within the foreigners;
2. Japan has taken a leading position in many areas of cultural industry, especially the emerging cultural industry such as comic and animation, games.
3. Japanese craftsman spirit.