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Friday, Nov. 2,1979
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TOKYO. — Jap— pゅ lishers cthanked out more thai\ aゆlion bookslぉt "air, a statistic that shoき the Japanese aren,t letting television, oi* otherleisu" distractions 一 in the way of thieir claim16lt)dng the W6rld,s mo^t^ Hierみtもnation,
Pointingoiut th" thatお ahncKst iO 1x)oksfor everj^ Qf J[apaii,s ]rぉiniUion ciiizens?てthe J^apan Bodlt Pui)lisIiersA^n.als6,or-tsゅkt the number of books jpr6dpced anitiiaU;j^ has doubled hithもlast seven years,..
'嗟ゃreV a saぉng in the industry that sales wijll coti: tinue to rise aslohgagf the dties "ep growing atvかihe trains keep rimning,"s&id iiyoicjii Kuro幼ki, a senior eihployee of centralTokyo's Ya6su Book Cせni^r, possibly^ the WQrld,さ1きIngest bookstore under onc^ roiof.
Howe他,the commuters who siitaiJ^hang with one hanfland holdにbook in the other are only a small segment 0f a public that devours everything from IJar-u取-Sea ruin c轉i《books to translations of such heavy imports as e(;ひiloniist John Kもnneth Galきith,s "Age of Uncei^iiity."
Priced at the equivalent of多10 • about average for a
new book here - Galbraitii,s ejfまort sold 400,000 copies. That,sゃnly middling good in a court try where according to !Vfasaakr3hJlgゅi'sa, director of the Bp ok )i*u"i, shers Assn., many bestsellers easily toi> tliemHlion mark.
And, as加ぉht A natト oir,hもre the biぉgest dailj^ tie^Vsp叩aぉhave drcul"ti-<msup>vard of11ゃndl2i miliiinyJajpalit ha^long claimed tiiもwoま,s Jnほhーt lit纽ricy rate,鄉mj^ that nearly100 i>er (jent. of its pleoぉle (Sanreadartdwriiei.
Skeぉtics say thefigure inay bSsome\yhjat infljated, bcicause ihe officialcriteri-onforlitetracyおthe aもiliれ to Sign one's na傘
顺rーer, on(5 nぉedn,t be especially Hteraite to spゅd time with the " imanga" (cofmic) books t haもmake up about 20 per ce I it of 二 Japan's published material-and have a1egiひn of dedicated fans that span the range of society, from teenagers and housewives to briefcase-t6ting salary earners.
These100-おage pulp magケ zines feature sefiali狄4 stories that are short on andlong on crudely-drawn gore, sex, fantasy and邻orts. Somもrum to seven million copies aweeK;
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one baseball"manga" alone sold 25 million copies.
A number of fast-yen publishers also have turned pulp thrillers into runaway seven millicm copies a week; housewives to briefcase-bestseller^ by collaborating movie prodiiciers in highly-publicizedli^i^ins ba-sもdo n their books.
Tokyo,sReseaixjh Institu-te ft)r Pu][)licatio叫which monitors thもJゅ"n鄉read-init ha)j)itsf6rtlie B^okPub-】ぉhぉrs Assn; :r^^J(wrtきd rも. cently that >Vliil"91per cent of thcj pーiもspend moi"6 timもreadiiiきevery day, the aversige hai drop-pcjd from 4fmiiiutes in1?7!5 to38inimiies!站t yeれ
That reported shift coincides with other pひlls show-inぉthfit television, sports さnd other recreationalpuf-suitsでonsuirtもan increasing part of the person's day.
R—sartoぉin the trend towardlighter fare was seetvin publishing circles as the re明onfor the bank' rupicylast year of Chき-ma Shobo, a resぉeetied pvib-lisher of encyclopedias ?md othei^ serious booゆ.
Pilblishers Assn. spokes: manShigehisa said the company went broke ('because itf "led to bend to the public den land for paperbacks attdperiodicals."
In the faceoftha"ho" wever, many regular booksellers CO tit Ume to prosper*. T:^he52^year old Kinokimi-yaCo, a spfecialistinwesレ eriibooks,saw sales top a million yen ($455,000) a day in its 27 outletslast year, 叫dl^aesu BookCenteivis a whopping success in its fkst12 months*
Y狄su、 Kurosaki admitted there hadHbee](I concern abcKit ihewisdk^m ofopゅ-inきa st麵>vitji more than a million books in stbck -200,000 hardcoyer titles, only a few paperbacks and I to comics.
Their柳lt has exceeded expectations, hもsaid. In iti first year, the booksi^re,s fivie floors of sh咖es w«re visited by an average of 30,000 persons a day, ap sales ran12,000 t,15jJ>fliQ ,1umes per day.
"To suggest that the written word isdi幼ぉpearing is a myUi,,, said Kurosaki. "Buying a I id owning a book gives people a sense of sat is• faction they willnever receive form watching tele* vision or movies. There will always be a basic h謹an need for reading."
Letter to editor: Mo鹏他atten
Lord Mo untbat ten ,s parting slap at Japaii is charai;te< ristic of the Anglo-Saxons Hhatlosers b^binehei*oes by derogatory statements made against the "enemy". The "J rotten enemy" pronouncement serves to scare off any closeUtsi>ection of the truth.
tte was aloser at Singapore andHong Kongヽavenged, igiiomiously, five yearslater bytheぶ加ericatns,TlvuS vindicated, Mountもatten seni^ed that he must next be a loser in his decease;: he carded out his hero role defeating the enもmythr6pgha codicileven扭fter death. His dislike of Japanese was rooted in a n兮ed for adoration byltisl^iidred, a need arising from, one intist sp^culaぉ, a Hillllinolieimrt of his psycfie.
tiiedeviousbehav|[6ur々f the high officialis contrary to the wishes oftheMonardly thM^, to day, is extiremelダ 《oiiーcioiis of thetra,i" of othei^誇ple of thも飾rld aridiひtiieti5ndもii(iy orth<e British to couple ther cult 6f selfadoraiioiiAviththehitretfof otiteidei"s.
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