Sophia Books equips scholars (and lovers) with language reference tools including dictionaries and literary touchstones from home. Vancouver's source for Japanese books, magazines and manga since 1975, founder Makoto Inoue retired while at the same time, Manhattan Books and Magazines (managed by daughter Yuki's husband Marc Fournier) was closing. Merged, they make multiculti magic, whether... more

An honest reflection of this city, or perhaps any cosmopolitan centre ringing the Pacific, Sophia Bookstore inhabits that dimension of the newest global culture by being a self-described “multilingual media store that specializes in languages both written and visual.” They stock literature and magazines in Japanese, French, Italian, Spanish and German—alongside the best writing from these... more