Japanese Manga Sales Suffer Largest Decline in History

Posted on: March 17, 2010
A new report from the Tokyo-based Research Institute for Publications reveals that Japanese manga magazine and manga book sales dropped 6.6% in 2009, the largest single year decline in the history of Japanese manga publishing. Manga magazine sales, alone, dropped by 9.4% to 191.3 billion yen ($2.12 billion USD), dipping below 200 billion yen in [...]

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