Otherwise, the device is nice, there is no rush at Yodobashi (I was the only one
buying on Friday in Yokohama during those 15 minutes), it can be set to English menu, displays English and foreign
books perfectly, indeed displays Japanese vertical text with ruby (furigana), but it seems there are some
limitations (or renaming tricks): http://blog.taiyolab.com/en/review-of-kobo-touch-ereader/ Older Japanese text in EPUB2 will be displayed horizontally.