Tokyo, May 24 -- Near Kita-Sakado station in Saitama prefecture, a small bookstore, run by a young Vietnamese entrepreneur, has become a rendezvous for the Vietnamese community in Japan.

The Macaw bookstore is operated by Ngo Ngoc Khanh, a Hanoi native who moved to Japan in 2015 to pursue university studies. As an enthusiastic reader with a lifelong love for books, Khanh continued his reading habit abroad with three to four books each week.

His family regularly sent him books from Vietnam, gradually filling his dorm room with Vietnamese literature works.Reluctant to part with the books he had already read, Khanh began sharing them via social media.

The enthusiastic response from the Vietnamese community in Japan encouraged him to consi...