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Nearly 30% of municipalities in Japan have no physical bookstores

Nearly 30 percent of municipalities in Japan have no physical bookstores due to the impact of population shrinkage and the prevalence of online stores, according to a survey by a publishing industry association. Of the country's 1,741 municipalities, 482 cities, towns and villages, or 27.7 percent of the total, had… ....

Ken Saito , Shuichi Matsuki , Japan Publishing Industry Foundation For Culture , Research Institute For Publications , Japan Publishing Industry Foundation , Research Institute ,

Japan's Publishers See Declining Sales, Digital Comics Offer Bright Spot

Despite strong sales of digital comics, a significant decline in the sale of print books led to a combined decrease in overall sales of published materials for the second consecutive year.
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Tetsuko Kuroyanagi , Brian Dentry , Haruki Murakami , Research Institute For Publications , News On Japan , Research Institute , Japan Tokyo Osaka Kyoto Business ,