Originally Posted by
palincss
Yes, I've bought tires, lights and reflectors from Grand Bois in Japan. It's very much like buying from a Stateside online supplier, with the extra step of getting a separate email listing the shipping, along with a PayPal invoice. Grand Bois are great to deal with, very nice people and very knowledgeable. Note: let your browser translate for you into English, and be ready for some weird translations such as French words that have been phonetically translated into Japanese, translated back into English that only makes sense when you sound it out slowly and then suddenly the shoe drops, and some odd translations like "hiker" for "bicycle".
Yeah, their own company name comes through the double-translation as "Gran Boa".
Machine translation is improving by leaps and bounds though. So much better now than just a couple years ago. With the application of AI, I expect near-perfect translation may be right around the corner.