Apple Inc’s iPad made its overseas debut on Friday, with buyers storming Japanese and Australian shops to be among the first outside the United States to snap up the long-awaited tablet PC. The device, which has a 9.7-inch color touchscreen for surfing the Web, watching movies, playing games and reading e-books, also goes on sale in Germany, France, Italy, Switzerland, Spain, the UK and Canada later on Friday. At Apple’s flagship store in Tokyo’s Ginza shopping district, about 1,200 people lined up before the store opened at 8 a.m. “I wanted to touch it as soon as possible. I felt a true excitement when it was finally in my hands,” said Takechiyo Yamanaka, a 19-year-old who camped out in front of the Ginza store from Wednesday evening to be the first in line. – From Reuters