Doujin shop

A doujin shop (同人ショップ, dōjin shoppu) is a store that specializes in doujinshi, self-published works.

Doujin shop chain outlets can be found in many large cities in Japan.

This is partly because they are per definition self-published, but also because most doujinshi are fanworks, meaning that they exist in a legal gray area of Japanese copyright law.

[4] Tolerance towards doujinshi on the part of copyright holders means that doujin shops can continue to operate.

[5] Some developed into large chain stores that continued to expand throughout the 1990s, along with the rising number of participants in Comiket and other doujinshi conventions.

[1] When it comes to sale of second-hand doujinshi, doujin shops function exactly like regular used bookstores.

[1] Circles (individuals or groups who create doujinshi) apply for the store to carry their works on its shelves.