Japan remains one of the strongest markets for magazines: thick monthly issues, lots of special editions, freebies and the best concentration of bookstores in the world. And yet, CR Book Japan comes across so unnecessary and irrelevant. It's the international edition of a magazine nobody was asking for. And that's not a criticism of it as a product as much it as reflection on the similarly irrelevant parent magazine. Would rather see someone relaunch L'Officiel Japan or even a Japanese version of InStyle or Grazia.