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Used goods may soon be the new flavour in South-east Asia
Published Mon, Jul 10, 2017 · 09:50 PM
Kuala Lumpur
ON THE second floor of a 24,000-square-foot, used-goods superstore in the suburbs of Kuala Lumpur, Koji Onozawa pauses beside some old Japanese surfboards. He's spent nearly two decades at Bookoff Corp - a corporate legend in Japan that's barely known outside it, with 832 second-hand shops across the country.
Now he's running Jalan Jalan Japan, the compan…
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