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All,

I know this sounds like a troll, but it is not, I assure you. I am at
a point where I may be forced to consider a career change. My wife
wants to teach at a reservation for the next several years, and as I do
not see very many days left in my 20 odd-year career as a software
designer, I am very much tempted to take her up on this.

Since I have a had an abiding interest in building amateur gear from
parts, and since I hear a lot of complaints on this group about certain
retail chains not being responsive to amateurs, I thought I should do a
little bit of "market research" and ask my potential customers what
they might want to see from my store if I should start one.

I was reading the responses to your post when a thought prompted me to add
another comment. The electronics market for the amateur in Japan is
exceedingly more developed that what it is here in the US. Every now and
then I hear of interesting amateur equipment, electronics devices and parts
that, for some reason, are not available in the US---I sure would like to
have one of those Sony automobile receivers with short-wave. Heaven knows
what they have for the computer hobbyist. Possibly, an import operation of
sort can fill the void---an interesting niche.

For the life of me I can't remember what part of Tokyo the famous
electronics district is in.

Maybe I shouldn't have posted this---the idea sounds good to me too.