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Popularity of Japanese Libraries Hitting Publishers’ Bottom Line

Statistics on libraries in Japan released by the Japan Library Association show that the collections at public libraries in 2017 totaled 442.82 million books, and that there were 691.47 million loans ...
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Japan library that welcomes conversations a hit with locals

AKASHI, Hyogo -- Just 17 months after opening, a municipal library in this west Japan city has become a popular gathering place for residents by challenging the long-standing expectation of silence at ...
StarTribune

Minnesotans worried that a huge Japanese book collection would be lost. Now two new libraries will save it.

Unable to afford textbooks while growing up on Japan’s northwest coast, Yoko Breckenridge would borrow them from friends and copy each chapter by hand. Breckenridge, who married an American soldier ...
The Taipei Times

Japanese library’s Web site protested

The government has officially issued a protest to a Japanese state-run library over its wrongful designation of Taiwan as a part of the People’s Republic of China on its Web site. The ministry found ...
The Taipei Times

Japanese library’s error an insult, union says

The All Japan Taiwanese Union (AJTU) in a letter yesterday asked Japanese National Diet Library (NDL) director-general Motonobu Yoshinaga to change how Taiwan is addressed on its Web site from “Taiwan ...