N°150 [FOCUS] Drama : Tsutaya, king of publishing of Edo
In 2025, NHK chose to dedicate its annual saga to the man who promoted the flourishing of books in the 18th century. Like every year […]
Month: May 2025
N°150 [FOCUS] The book empire is doing badly
The number of bookstores continues to decline and authorities are slow to implement a policy to help them. Japan faces a bookstore crisis as these […]
N°150 [FOCUS] Debate : the crisis is not what we think
For Kakio Inja, the world’s difficult situation for bookstores can be explained by past bad decisions before anything else. Most people lament the disappearance of […]